How often do you speak to your MIL/DIL?

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05/04/2025 08:39

Subject: How often do you speak to your MIL/DIL?

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Anonymous

Long distance

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05/04/2025 08:41

Subject: How often do you speak to your MIL/DIL?

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Anonymous

My spouse travels for work a lot so when he is out I'll do an occasional video call with MIL so she can talk to our kid. So maybe 2-4 times a month. Outside of that, not much.

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05/04/2025 08:55

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Anonymous

I text with my MIL/SIL (group text) nearly daily. My MIL is one of the best ppl I know though

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05/04/2025 09:02

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Anonymous

Never. She's pretty old and just talks about Jesus.

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05/04/2025 09:10

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Anonymous

2-3 times a year?
She's nice, I like her. Sadly, her Parkinson's makes it really difficult for her to articulate.

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05/04/2025 09:43

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Anonymous

I do my best to only see MIL 1x a year. I grey rock her while visiting and don’t communicate beyond that. She has a personality disorder and this is the only way given past behavior. My DH sees my parents 2-3 x a year and is on a family group chat with them but has never called them beyond that (we’ve been married 27 yrs)

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05/04/2025 09:44

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Anonymous

We see each other every Sunday.

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05/04/2025 09:59

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:Never. She's pretty old and just talks about Jesus.

MIL bashing didn’t start on this thread until the third response! That’s a new record!

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05/04/2025 10:13

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Anonymous

I never communicate independently with my MIL. DH talks to her by phone about once a week and facilitates a FaceTime with her and our kid maybe once or twice a month.

There's nothing wrong with her, we just aren't close. I do help DH buy her gifts and we visit her a couple times a year and I hang out with her some then.

This is pretty much the same relationship my DH has with my parents.

I do actually envy people who are close with their ILs. But that wasn't the kind of relationship my ILs wanted so I let it go. You can't force things on people.

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05/04/2025 10:15

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never. She's pretty old and just talks about Jesus.

MIL bashing didn’t start on this thread until the third response! That’s a new record!

That's not "MIL bashing." That's one person expressing an opinion about her MIL. That's like saying that someone on here saying "my neighbor is pretty old and mostly talks about Jesus" is "neighbor bashing."

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05/04/2025 10:16

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Anonymous

Couple times a week on FaceTime so she and FIL can talk to our kids, give us updates and vice versa. We see them usually at least once a month, either they’re visiting us for a weekend or vice versa, or we’re vacationing together / holiday week, etc. she rarely texts me alone though.

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05/04/2025 10:33

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Anonymous

I have two MILs
Prefer one over the other - neither would ever know.

I speak to them very infrequently.. zero need as our two children are young adults.

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05/04/2025 12:24

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Anonymous

MIL is deceased, so I don’t really talk to her, if it did it would be long distance. 🤓

Currently, I do not have any daughter-in-laws.

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05/04/2025 12:29

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Anonymous

Never. Only when we visit in person.