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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope to redirect this thread back to the positive stories of great MIL's. :)

I have never heard my MIL criticize anyone. It wouldn't occur to her to do so. She is a very loving and patient grandmother. On our last vacation, she was up and dressed as soon as she heard kids stirring and made sure we went back to bed. She spends an inordinate amount of time making handmade gifts for her family: refinishes furniture, handmakes cards, puts together shutterfly books, the works. When they visited after our first was born, I was crazy sleep-deprived and hormonal and found myself actually annoyed with her for stupid things like making a ton of noise in the kitchen, not bathing the baby the way I would have done it, little stuff like that. I had to majorly check myself! I wish I could say my own mother is as good an MIL to my DH. She has a lot of positive qualities but falls more into the high-maintenance category. I've learned a lot about what it will someday take to be a good MIL myself.[/quote]

You are very very lucky. I wish I could say ANY of these positive things about my mil. Among 99% of my friends, it's dh's mom that is the "problem mil" and never the wife's mother. Why is that?[/quote]

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