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[quote=Anonymous]Focus on trying to have the relationship you WANT with them, apart from the money.  Draw your boundaries and stick to them.  The risk is that you lose your inheritance - but the potential benefit is that you just might establish a relationship you enjoy rather than one you feel beholden to.

I say this as someone with an extremely difficult relationship with my MIL, from whom we could theoretically inherit around 5 million.  No amount of money is worth my making her and her desires the focus of our family life, which is what she would like.  Yet, by focusing on building a relationship based on mutual respect, my DH is MUCH happier with his relationship with her.  I have no idea if we will be cut out of her will.  But at least I know I didn't spend decades (people live a LONG time these days!) trying to appease her for all the wrong reasons.

So, in other words, I think there is a third path, which is to try to forge a healthy relationship (with boundaries) not for the money but for your DH and your kids.[/quote]

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