My relationship with my Mother is very hot and cold. I have a great relationship with my MIL which I know my own Mother resents. Its such a shame that I don't have a great relationship with my Mother but I feel she has dragged issues with her own mother into our relationship and I now see it as an missed opportunity to break the cycle of bad mother/daughter relationships in our family now and in the past.
My Mother will snipe at or about my MIL at every opportunity. They rarely see each other but when they do my Mother is very dismissive of her. My MIL has lost a lot of weight over the last 12 months after joining Weight Watchers and looks fantastic. When they were both round at our house a couple of weeks ago my Mother made no comment about the weight loss, when my MIL left I commented how fab she looked and my Mother said she couldn't see any difference! Is is blindingly obvious that she has lost weight but a compliment would stick in my Mothers throat (on my wedding day she told me I looked too skinny/bony in my dress, she couldn't even muster a nice thing to say).
My Inlaws take a huge interest in our children and regularly take them out but my Mother says 'they need to get out more and get a life'. My own parents hardly see our children and then wonder why they don't interact with them when they rarely visit.
Anyway, I could go on and on (more than I already have done!). I am just interested to know other MNetters situations.