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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the best IL's are the ones who have had the worst IL's.[/quote]

There may be something to that. My ILs, especially my MIL, are wonderful. They are like second parents to me. My MIL told me early on that her own MIL was just awful to her and she had to put up with it for 30 years and she swore to be the complete opposite when her son got married. Her MIL would do things like pretend to forget her name (when they lived 10 minutes away and saw each other weekly or more) or "forget" to buy her a ticket or get her a seat when the whole family went out together. Terrible, mean passive-aggressive crap like that. I am the lucky recipient of her suffering -- I could not ask for a sweeter, kinder, or more thoughtful MIL. [/quote]

It depends. My MIL's mother was really uninterested in her as a person and bitter that her son moved away from his small town to be her husband. Now, my MIL is hell bent on ensuring she doesn't do that and is as a resulting wanting to be my best friend and in my business when it's REALLY not appropriate. So... sometimes people overcompensate.[/quote]

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