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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think my relationship with my MIL got worse after our son was born.  She had been abusive, verbally and physically, to my DH when he was a child.  We had set some boundaries, but I tried to be compassionate about her struggles.  Before we had children I actively encouraged my DH to maintain some contact.

But my son is very similar to my DH, and the stories he told me about how his mother treated him when he would bring her drawings from school etc, I can imagine really vividly now that I have seen my son do the same.  And it literally makes me ill that any person could say/ do such cruel things to a child who so desperately wants to be loved.

When we went to see her when our son was about 3yo she said to us that now we can understand how hard being a parent is so we can see she isn't so bad.  I was so proud of my DH for saying, actually [b]now we see how terrible you were because neither of us can imagine behaving like you did[/b].

For us this was the final straw and we have ended that relationship.

So like many other posters have said- the course of this relationship was set long before we had children.  But being a parent myself cast her behavior into a much more clear light.[/quote]

+1  [/quote]

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