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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is getting married in October. I have a good relationship with his fiancee and would like to do something to "officially" welcome her into the family. Any ideas? Thanks![/quote]

My mom and wife get along.

My mom and dad wrote a handwritten letter to my wife that they gave to her with a string of expensive pearls the morning of our wedding. My wife opens and that letter every year on our anniversary twenty years later.  I don’t know what it says.

We see my mom two or three times a year when she comes to visit.   She always declares that she’ll take care of the kids for the weekend and insists we spend the weekend together at a hotel. Used to be she’d book us at the Ritz, but when she found out how much we make, that part ended and we had to pay our own way. [/quote]

The last part is kind of funny, but your mother's attitude is generous, thoughtful and kind, and her heart is in the right place.  I love that she welcomed your wife into the family with something truly special. I want to be a secure, kind MIL who welcomes my DIL into the family warmly, is genuinely curious and accepting about her and her family and background, and someone DS and wife want to be with, and spend time with, without worrying about me snapping (but pretending they are not, like my MIL - though I think since that is not in my nature, that should not be a concern) at any moment.

My MIL is bitter and mean, and it seems she resents DH, especially if he does well - which is nothing short of very messed up - as if she wasn't/isn't happy, so why should we be happy. How much is enough for her? She has a great life, and had to do very little for it, and exerted minimal energy toward it. Anxiety ruled her day, and anything was too much for her. I want the opposite (of my MIL's attitude)- I want my family to be happy.  Is that so crazy? The nasty things that my MIL said early on stay with DH and me, and it is difficult to see MIL any way other than a product of her nastiness that we have seen (since we now know her true colors).  We play nice, but we know more than we let on. MIL's dividing a family is the epitome of dysfunctional.

Do you have sisters? Are they threatened that another woman came into the family? Did MIL take your wife (having a family story and life before your family) personally? [/quote]

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