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Love her! We get along great and she is an awesome grandma!
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We get along fine. Sometime she can be a handful at times but I know that she is a sweet person.
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I loved my MIL pre-pregnancy, then started to hate her when LO came last November. Now, that LO is almost 8 months, I am starting to like her again and accept her for who she is. It is what it is at this point.
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Really well, thankfully! I wouldn't say we're best friends, but she's extremely supportive of me (more than my own mom, even) and she's so helpful when she comes to stay, always volunteering to do whatever I need/want. I realize I am very, very lucky. It's just sad that she lives overseas so we don't see very much of her.
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We get along well. We're not BFF, and I rarely hang out with her alone. We're very different, but we both try. All in all, I'm thankful for the ILs I have.
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My MIL is the same age as my grandparents, so we do not have a very close relationship, but I absolutely LOVE her
She is literally a saint. I get along better with her than I do my own mom because she is not critical, very supportive, listens, and offers great advice. Plus she sort of is in love with me because I helped straighten out her son 
I definitely feel very blessed with my IL, however, I don't know if my DH can say the same.
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That is so awesome! I love my MIL. She is so sweet & great to us.
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I love my MIL, we get along great!
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my MIL! I've lucked out with her and even ex-bf's moms. I had two serious relationships before DH. The first, my high school "sweetheart," his mom adored me. We were friends even. She had two boys so she treated me like she daughter she didn't have. The second serious one was kid #3 of 4 (3 boys, 1 girl) - his parents liked me but were fairly hands off, not sure why. DH is the oldest of 3 - 2 boys, 1 girl. His sister and mom are super close! Sister and dad not so much. FIL treats me like the daughter he doesn't have - he doesn't get the affection from SIL so transfers that to me. MIL is awesome too. She's really open, down to earth. I love her. They're coming this weekend to stay with us for a week and then we're going on vacation together for another week. My parents would drive me insane but I don't mind his!
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I used to like her. And then I had a baby. And now I have a very difficult time tolerating her. She has no boundaries whatsoever.
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She cried when dh and I got engaged because she was so sad she was "losing her son..."
Ya. She lives two blocks away so I see her often and tolerate her for sure.
But she is selfish and still thinks her 30-year old son is her tiny baby. She treats me terribly sometimes.
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I love her but she can be a bit too involved in our lives and that bothers me a lot.
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Some of you are very, very lucky!!!!
My MIL and I have gone through our ups and downs in the past 10 years that we've known each other (and almost 8 years of being MIL and DIL). So it really depends when you're asking.
In general, though, if we weren't in-laws we would never get along. Even though we have a lot of things in common (ethnicity, religion, etc), we're complete opposites.
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It's been pretty well documented here how I get along with my MIL. She's always been intrusive to DH and his relationships. With me, DH's wife, she's no different. She's struggled with the boundaries put in place after having my privacy taken away by her. Things were okay when LO was born, but her week long visit her did whatever semblance of a relationship I had with her in.
Since then, DH and I have been counseling as a result. I survived my trip there by being as nice as possible, etc. She still wants a heart to heart aka rip me to shreds without DH's knowledge.
So, yeah we don't get along. There's a lot of bad history to overcome. It's a lot of history that she's in total denial of ever saying awful things to me aka never taking responsibility for what comes out of her mouth. I love that my three threads about MIL are popping up in the "You might also enjoy"!
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@cheert16: Umm...she's 2 months old! That's just nuts to me that she thinks that and is saying it to you!
My MIL and I do get along really well, but there are things that she does that drive me nuts. I'm sure there are things that I do that drive her nuts too. But overall, our relationship is a good one.
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I love my MIL!! We text almost daily
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@highwire: same here! We got even closer when they lived with us for 7 months after Sandy, while their house was being gutted and renovated. We text daily and talk on the phone a lot, and go for lunch dates and just hang out! She lives 5 minutes away from me.
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shes one of my best friends. I feel so lucky to have her because I've hear horror stories about other people's MIL
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@MrsH: I'm in the same boat.
MIL and I are civil, but clearly do not like one another. She talks trash about me and my family behind our backs (to my DH of all people), because I took her baby away. He's 28 years old.
She is literally a saint. I get along better with her than I do my own mom because she is not critical, very supportive, listens, and offers great advice. Plus she sort of is in love with me because I helped straighten out her son 
I definitely feel very blessed with my IL, however, I don't know if my DH can say the same.
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