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[quote=Anonymous]There are a ton of things to say in reply to MIL eg 'Oh ok' smile and change the subject etc.

What you need is to stop caring about what your MIL thinks.  Once you don't care about her opinion of you, what she says just doesn't mean anything to you.  It's not easy but how I stopped caring was to look at my MIL and think to myself, do I respect her, do I like her, do I confide in her etc.

I found that no I didn't like her because she was so nasty to me, so why did I care what she thought of me.  Nothing I ever did was going to be ok so what does it matter what she said.  I simply stopped caring what she thought and it's freedom.

You have to believe in yourself.  You aren't going to change your MIL.  You really have to change how you react to her.

I remember my MIL once put me down again and told me I'd done something wrong and my reply "well maybe I'll do it right next time".  I just didn't care.  My FIL burst into laughter and then I started laughing.  While my FIL and I laughed my MIL sat there looking angry.  Oh well.[/quote]

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