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[quote=Anonymous]My MIL ignores me, but that's fine by me. She, in a fit of anger, lashed out verbally at me and accused me of "stealing" her son and being a terrible awful miserable person for depriving her of grandchildren. Okay then!

Not long after that, she abruptly left my FIL (who, if stoic and not great at showing emotion, is still a nice guy who worked insanely hard to support his stay-at-home wife and build a solid middle class life), which just devastated him. I mean, wrecked the guy to the point that he entered pretty intense therapy because he was contemplating suicide.

And why did she leave? To move closer to her daughter, who had the only grandchild. And she proudly told my husband this. She then, as my husband says "messed up [her daughter] petty bad" and that led to my SIL's divorce before the kid was 2.

Through all of this, MIL barely spoke to her own son. Needless to say, relations are strained and remain so to this day. Compounded by the fact that MIL has a live-in boyfriend (guess that whole lecture she gave us about "living in sin" is a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do situation) while we watch my FIL still struggle to adjust to life as a middle-aged single.

Since MIL set all of this into motion 4 years ago, she's visited us once. I've not spoken to her on the phone. We visited once, and my husband made an additional visit without me. She's actually pretty smothering on these incredible rare visits, which drives me crazy.

But, yes, otherwise she ignores me and I ignore her right back.[/quote]

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