My parents-in-law were great people and so are my sons-in-law and my daughter-in-law. Lets hear it for the silent majority.

So glad this post has popped up again today - I just want to sing the praises of my wonderful daughter in law who has hosted Christmas for her family and mine and done it all with a welcome and a smile (ably supported by my eldest son, I should add). She and my son invited their younger brothers to stay over the whole Christmas period. (Both brothers were classmates at school and good friends, but their paths diverged when my son went to work abroad.) Yesterday they also hosted her parents and aunt and uncle for meals and they stayed overnight and had a cooked breakfast this morning - then her family left and we all arrived and had a wonderful Christmas meal with all the trimmings. My daughter in law is very special and I love her to pieces.

I completely agree. I have a wonderful family and am SO grateful for my lovely in-laws. There is such a stigma when you marry into a family that they are going to be difficult. But that was, thankfully, not the case for me. I am so grateful to have such a wonderfully supportive family who love me as I do them. So wonderful. Family is everything.

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My second husbands parents were wonderful, when DS2 was born my mother came up to look after DS1, a nightmare, she resented DS2 still does, and made my life hell.
I was adopted at 5 months so she never had a new baby. Constantly complained about me not dusting etc, and became hysterical when i was breastfeeding, called it disgusting and NOT normal.
Asked her to leave after 3 weeks and MIL and FIL came up, X2 worked funny hours and DS1 has some problems.
It was wonderful, they made me a cup of tea.
They were the loveliest people ever and saved my sanity.

I too have had lovely in-laws over the years and are genuinely fond of some of them. It's all about give and take, and tolerance.
And it's great to have a positive thread.

I had lovely in-laws , long gone now. My son in law is wonderful too . I never thought my daughter would find a nice man , and I was just trying to console myself about it, when she came home one day from university in tears. She'd had a really horrible day , so I did what any mother would do , I advised her to go and have a few drinks with her girl friends. She went to a pub, and sat down to watch a rugby game on the television. A man sat down next to her and asked if she knew the difference between a ruck and a maul..... sixteen years later they've been married for ten years and have two lovely children. I've always been thankful that he didn't know about rucks and mauls ( and that she did !) .

This is such a lovely thread to see. I couldn’t wish for a better dil. She is a fantastic mother to my dgs, and a wonderful partner to my ds. She keeps me up to date with all the goings on with my dgs, and thanks to her I see him every week. I’m very happy to have her as a part of my family, and I like to think she feels the same.

My ex mil is the most wonderful person ever. When I was divorcing her son her son I went to stay with her for the summer holidays and we have always kept in touch and been invited, along with my second husband, to all the family events. She is like a mum to me