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ohh, i love my MIL (pretty much) to bits :beat

she's been there for me when my own family wasn't and that is... more than i could ever ask for.

she's also the best grandmother any child could possibly have. tobias loves her SO much. he's eyes sparkle just mentioning her name.

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I adore my MIL. She is the most amazing woman and so good to my kids. I really look up to her and am so thankful to have her in my life.
 
John's parents both passed away before I met him. He has a brother that lives out of state that we get along with just fine, although we don't see them that often.
 
My husband's parents have passed away.....the rest of his family, well.. they live a few hours away... thankfully!
 
My inlaws live less than 2 hours away. They are amazing. My MIL would drive here weekly when Kenzie was little and stay with us a couple of nights a week to babysit while we worked. She really plays with her, spoils her a little, spends quality time with her, even helped me gut and paint and redecorate her room this summer(that was a huge undertaking). She loves to have Kenzie come stay with her on vacations too. My Father in law is quieter, but has fun with her, and is very proud of her. He takes her to the golf course, t see animals and get ice cream when she is there. He is our Mr. Fix it and comes and helps us do home improvement. Fantastic grandparents.

And David's sisters are great too. One lives here with her husband and 2 kids. The other and her husband is 4 hrs away. They also have always been super supportive of Kenzie and the greatest Aunts and Uncles. We all get along really well...His family often takes my side against David because they get his quirks and annoying habits. lol
 
I loved my mother in law...she was a special woman who loved to laugh, loved to cook and accepted me into her family. Unfortunately she passed away a little over eight years ago. I love my father in law to bits as well, and have talked to his new wife on the phone but we've never met her.

I also get along with my sister in law pretty well...she comes for a visit about once a year and will be here for a couple of weeks over Thanksgiving this year. We have a lot of the same interests (mainly making fun of my husband but she is also into crafts and cooking) so we usually have a fun visit.
 
I get along great with one of my brother in laws, in fact all of my brother in laws. I tolerate my mother in law and grandmother in law. I always feel like she doesn't want to put in effort to get to know us and frankly I don't think that I should have to be the one who always does. Case in point: She didn't see my youngest until she was 6 months old and we traveled down to see the family. She never even bothered to come up to see us before then! My parents are just way more involved! And I feel like she treats her sons and their families not as good as her daughters'. I always feel second class for some reason. And the grandmother, let's just say she rides a broom.
 
My husbands parents are divorced and each remarried. I get along great with his dad and step-mother, but his mum and I are very different people.
 
I'm so fortunate to have wonderful in-laws. DH and I have been together for 16 years and his parents are very much mom and dad #2 to me. His mom comes from a family 16 so when they have family get togethers it's a huge amount of people who love to laugh and who love being together. I have a few friends who aren't as lucky and have constant tension with their in-laws, so I've seen firsthand how blessed I am.
 
My FIL lives next door and we get along fine. I think he is awesome. My MIL lives 6 hours away and I am glad. I don't like her and she doesn't like me...period. She will never see my kids as long as I have a say about it.
 
My MIL is pretty amazing...she reminds me so much of my own Mom is ridiculous. She has been a NICU nurse for 20+ years...so when Seth was born and the nurses would try to explain something to us in the best English they could...if we had any questions we would call her back in the states no matter what time it was. Then when I started having complications with Moo at around 34ish weeks...the literally dropped everything and flew to Germany to help DH with Bubba while I was in the hospital....and they didn't even get to stay long enough to see Moo be born. On top of that she is incredibly generous...she will teach the new Mom's how to crochet while their babies are in the NICU to give them something to distract them just a bit. She sent my little brother...who I think she only met in person twice...a huge box of girl scout and homemade cookies while he was in Afghanistan. She does 25 days of Christmas for all her grand babies...she is just amazing <3
 
I think it's so cool that so many of us have great in-laws! I always hear lots of horror stories, and I feel so bad for many of my friends that really struggle with those relationships. My MIL and FIL are definitely quirky, but I love them. They have been nothing but kind and generous and thoughtful, and really wonderful grandparents... honestly way better than my own parents who only live about an hour away. They live 8 hours away and DH and I have talked them to moving here when they retire.
 
My in-laws are the same age as my grandma, so it is kind of strange, but they are really sweet and loving. My FIL is a retired minister. He insisted on coming out of retirement to marry us. ;)

I feel bad because now they are just so old and frail. My MIL is 90 and now suffers from dementia and diabetes. She's in a wheelchair and can't get around on her own. My FIL is 87 and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's about a year ago. They live in an adult-family home up the street from us. My DH goes up there to take them things, drive them to appointments and take care of anything they need. We just refurbished their house and sold it for them. They call at strange times of the day/night because they get confused about things, but Tim does what he can and is just amazing. His brother lives about 90 minutes away and comes by when it is convenient for him. Ugh.

I feel bad because they are so sweet and wonderful, and then poor Tim has to deal with my mom who is CRAAAAAAzy. :p
 
We get along fine. They live abt 15 minutes from us, and we have Sunday lunch at their house every weekend. My MIL is very sweet, albeit annoyingly scatterbrained at times, and bends over backward to do for us and ours. My FIL can be a real.... jerk, but he treats my DD like gold, so I let it go.

DH's brother + family live a couple hours away, and we don't see them often, but we get along well enough. I wouldn't say we were great friends or anything, but so it goes.
 
I get along with my MIL & FIL pretty well. My MIL and I have butt heads on occasion, but we have a strong relationship. We don't talk to one of my BILs. My other BIL and his wife & kids we didn't talk to much until a few months ago. We talk to them more often now and will be living a lot closer to them soon. We're all excited because our kids are all close in age. We only see my in-laws once, maybe twice, a year. We see my BILs less often than that.

My husband is adopted but is still close with half of his biological family. They're great and they just adore him. We'll actually be living 2.5 hours from his bio grandparents and one of his aunts in 2 months and we're all very excited for that!
 
We live an hour and 45 minutes from my In-Laws and it can be nice. We celebrate all the holidays with everyone in the family and it makes the holidays fun. They are wonderful people and my kids just love them to death but it took me a few years to help my MIL to understand "I mean what I say and I say what I mean". Just this last year my FIL realized I was serious too, now it is all good again. I have been with my hubby 20 years and we have known each other for 27 years. Relationships take time but as long as everyone is willing to work at it we all get along great!
 
I get along fine with my in-laws. And while I never thought I would say this, I am actually glad that we live so far away from them now. Every time we go back to visit, my husband gets upset at something they say - they complain about a lot of things, and everything DH does is never enough. So I think it is a good thing that we see them less than once a year. I'm sad about it, but it looks like the best solution.
 
My in-laws are totally opposite-type of people than my parents...it's good to have that kind of balance in your life right?? :D LOLOL!! My MIL is a sweetheart but let's not get me started on the FIL.
 
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