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[quote=Anonymous]My MIL is like this and I wish I knew how to help my DH with this more. The fact that we live so far away now helps, and that we simply do not have the time to entertain the amount of communication she would like. She's become busier and happier in her own life in the past year and that's what finally turned things around for their relationship. Her attempts to get a vote in marital decisions, similar to the sofa example you gave, led me to put a moritorium on certain topics between DH & MIL. I normally wouldn't consider it my place to do that but if he's going to take on his mother's opinion as his own when we're trying to sort something out between the two of us, it's just too complicated. There's now a joke about the "embargoed" topics - ILs are surprisingly understanding about it, didn't start WW3 over it. It's worth a try - if she tries to cause drama, just give yourself a break from feeling obliged to engage every time. [/quote]
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