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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL expected me to follow her around and kowtow, help with cooking and [b]be impressed with her crappy little house[/b]. I was none of those things, because that's not how I'm wired and because I was 35 when I met her, living independently with a successful career and had no intention of trying to impress her by following old fashioned gender expectations.

I'm sure she felt the same way about me as OP does about her future SIL.

I've been married almost 20 years now BTW and have very little to do with my ILs who live about 3000 miles away.[/quote]

Being polite in someone's home isn't an old-fashioned gender expectation.  This post is not making you look like the badass feminist you think.[/quote]

I don't claim to be either. But her house was crappy and she assumed that to me, it was a mansion that I would be impressed by.[/quote]

Wow, maybe she and her spouse worked hard for that little house and, to them, it was essentially a mansion. Not everybody is rich. Lots of people work hard for and appreciate what they have even if we t doesn’t seem like a big deal to others. 
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NP. I know right? I feel bad for this old lady. I hope my future son in law won’t think my house is crappy and old. I am proud of it because I bought it all by myself and it wasn’t easy.[/quote]

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