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[b]Part of me wonders if on some level, she wants DH to end up single like her.[/b]  Is my assessment of her fair?  Probably not completely, but it's how I feel.  [/quote]

NP here.  This is exactly my issue with my MIL, and I actually know it to be true.  When he was divorced from his first wife, they talked on the phone literally every night. Sometimes for an hour, he says.  (He basically would just listen to her talk while he did housework and ironing and such.)  When we started dating, she actually said to me, "So YOU'RE the reason I don't have a best friend anymore!"

Her daughter, my MIL, is in a miserable marriage and my MIL openly roots for it to fail.  She loves "having her daughter to herself" when she visits.  She loves the fact that they don't sleep in the same room anymore so my MIL can "sleep over".

She has NO other friends and basically her whole life is whatever scraps of attention her kids will give her.  The fact that DH is busy and happy with me is an affront to my MIL.  So I see any confiding in her as essentially a betrayal of our marriage because I know that she would love for him to be single again.  She is not rooting for us or acting in our best interest in any way.[/quote]

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