I've got my mother in law staying with us for a week and she is driving me mad. So come on NSC how many of you either love your mother in law as you would your own mother, tolerate her or would love to get rid. The poll is now open
Not doing too good with mother-in-laws. My first wifes mother died about 6 months after we married, and both my mother and my partners mother were dead long before we got together so neither of us have one!
My first mother in law was psychotic....used to throw pots and pans in the kitchen if we didn't come to the table within about two minutes of being called. She threw a pan of cooking chips across the cooker and it slammed into the toaster and melted it completely!! When she visited in New York she paraded around naked, which wouldn't be too bad if she was Kate Moss, however...she's about 20 stone, with boobs below her navel...this was in a one bedroom apartment...
My mother in law is very different to myself and I know she doesn't agree with our family way of doing things, but she knows when to back off and when to interfere. She is a pretty decent person for the most part. Could be a lot worse.
My ex-Mother-in-law was OK but was a retired school teacher and thus had considerable experience in repeating the same stories over and over. And being a former teacher she would fix you with a stare to make sure you were paying attention.
My ex-husband's mother was, and still is, to the best of my knowledge, a woman whose desire to interfere in other people's lives was only matched by her desire to look on the bleak side of life.
Conversely, the lady who, until her death about 18 months ago, insisted that I was her daughter in law (despite the lack of legal bits of marital paperwork!) was a privilege to know.