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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL visibly clenches up anytime I dare to mention my family in front of her.  She MUCH prefers to pretend they don't exist.  She sometimes inquires about them, mostly as a tit-for-tat score keeping mission, but not because she actually cares what my answer is.

My family makes the a candy around Xmas, and every year I bring them to my in-laws.  Every time, my MIL asks what it is.  Every time.  It's been 6 years of me explaining what it is and how we make it every year.  And this point the willful ignorance is bordering on aggressive.

Part of this is that I've watched my own mother bend over backwards to accommodate all the new spouses into our family.  My SIL's family has mexican food on Xmas eve, so whenever she's with us for Xmas eve, we have Mexican food.  My BIL loves a certain kind of beer and potato chips, so my mother always has it when he comes over.  My DH loves scotch and football, so she always tells him to get a drink and to go turn the game on when he comes over.  I hope I can take after her when I'm a MIL one day and do my best to expand and include, instead of expecting my new kids-in-laws to Learn My Way.[/quote]

My MIL accommodates the first birth children (not DH) - and BILs ONLY.  Anything/one related to DH - nope.  MIL is an awful, bitter hag.  [/quote]

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