I love my Mom in law. She's a sweetheart, and I've never felt like we were competing for my husband's attention. I actually had a lot more trouble with my sister in law when it came to that!

I also love my mother in law. When my husband told her he would have to move to the USA from Amsterdam after we were married she only cried a few tears and gave me a hug. She knew he loved me and he needed to move on in his life. I give her the ultimate respect for that and visit her as much as possible. I also invite her to stay with us anytime. I only wish the best for her and enjoy her company.

I dislike her, but not because we don't get along. She just shows very little interest in her son (my husband) and her granddaughter (my daughter). She lives on the other side of the country, and the ONLY times she has seen us have been when we have gone out to see her and then one time when MY mother gave her airline miles so she could get a ticket right after our daughter was born. She blames this on money problems, but then she goes on other vacations and buys plenty of expensive things. She also decided to go back to law school in her late 40s (which is sort of admirable, but she already had two unrelated masters degrees and had a career that paid not much less than her job as a lawyer does now), and now she's told her two sons in high school that she doesn't have any money saved for their college because she used it to pay for her own law school tuition. I could go on and on about this sort of stuff. She's just never made her kids any sort of priority, and it's hard for me to respect her for all of it. So we're hardly competing for "primary woman" role, lol. Fortunately, when we do see each other, we get alone just fine.

I love my mom-in-law. She is spunky and has a dry sarcastic wit that I think is awesome. And she's easy-going too.

No, I have no reason to dislike her.

I like my mother-in-law overall. My husband and I differ from his parents politically and religiously, so that causes some tension, and I know it causes them some pain. I think they have some resentment about it (towards him, not me), but I definitely like her and think her heart is the right place. Usually we all have a great time together.

my boyfriend's mom and i get along great. and i am the primary woman in his life, if he EVER put his mother before me we are OVER, no if ands or buts about it. it's all about me!! his mom gets her respect but she is taking backseat to me.

I want to love my mother in law..I really do. She wore head to toe BLACK including nail and toe polish.. to my wedding May 30th. (springtime) Hmmmmmm.
We are just so different. I don't do drama...she loves it! But we both love the same man so we will work it out!

my boyfriends mom isn't part of his life so i don't have a relationship with her, but i get along with the rest of his family great.

My mom has an amazing relationship with my dads mom, actually she has an amazing relationship with both my grandparents. my grandma is always saying that my mom is like another daughter and she even gets along with my mom better than with her own daughters.

sigh

My boyfriend's mom is completely batty, and he has severed all contact with her. It was at first slightly upsetting, but she has done everything in her power to treat her son badly. Actually, not many people get along with her, as she has alienated most of her own family. I get along with the rest of his family though, and he loves mine so right now that's all that matters.

I don't have a mother in law. She left his dad when we was 2 or something. Thank goodness I hear she's in jail.

My mother in law has pulled me through a lot, and she's taught me a lot of things. I am fortunate to have her in my family Plus without her, I'd have no DH

we get along to each other's face - but don't like each other. she's crazy (literally). we've been married 10 years and she's only got worse. although, i do have to say - i seem to be able to tolerate her better than he does!

my mother-in-law is wonderful...i feel so lucky because my mother can't stand my dad's mom and is so jealous...they actually hang out sometimes without me...it's so nice that we have such a great relationship with our respective in-laws...makes things easy

My mother-in-law is fine. Actually, I think it's because of her that my husband has such a good heart. For that, I am grateful to her.

My father-in-law is the person I don't like. He's manipulative. I have a hard time trusting him.

I wouldn't say we "totally" get along. But we also don't have any problems. I just think we don't have too much in common with each other, so we really don't talk too much. But I like her. And she likes me.
His father is the one that gives the problems. He is very Old World India tradition man, and doesn't care much for the fact that my boyfriend has strayed away from tradition to a modern American girl for his love.
Oh well...

My biggest problem with my husband's mother is when she says crappy things about her son. She doesn't care much for me either, but we keep it cordial. I have told her I will become closer to her when her and her son become friendlier, until then I take my distance cues from my husband. I am close to his father and his sister though.

My mother in law is pretty quiet and very unemotional which I'm the complete opposite so we don't really have a lot to talk about but we only seem them every other week or so unless there is a family event. We do get along great though when we are all together. I get along with his Dad as well but my husband and his dad have the same sense of humor which probably explains it. They are both very laid back people.

i have no problem with my man's mom, but she dislikes me. she doesn't want her son to be in a serious relationship, and refuses to accept me because of it. it's irritating, since we've been together for over two years.

My mother in law is a sweetheart. My father in law too. I visit her once a week and I have a really good relationship with her, I'm very happy for that.

she's great

We get along, but I wouldn't say we're best buddies. While I appreciate her love and support, it usually comes wrapped in God's blessings. While that doesn't offend me, my gent can sometimes get a bit annoyed at all of the not so subtle "I hope I'll see you in heaven but doubt it"-kind of comments.

My future mother-in-law is an absolute peach. I love her and what's more important, she loves me! I'm really, really lucky.

it's not that i dislike her...i would just like to cut the ambilical cord.

I feel lucky to have such a nice one!!! She is really fantastic and loving. I had an ex who was a total momma's boy.. and that... was really difficult.

You ladies are lucky. I have tried everything to get along with my future mother-in-law, but to no avail. She is cordial to my face, but extremely passive aggressive. My finance is her oldest and she definitely is having trouble cutting the umbilical cord. She goes out of her way to exclude me, including not inviting me on family vacations and not allowing me in family pictures at weddings. My birthday was last month, and she did not even have the courtesy to wish me a happy birthday. She is also very critical and always has a snide comment about my cooking, decorating, and job.

Sigh... maybe things will get better after the wedding, but I doubt it.

I respect my m-i-l, she has accomplished much throughout her life. I'd even say we like each other. We get along just fine and we like the same stuffs (like old movies, older generation actors, collecting vintage stuffs, cooking, designs, etc) so we have stuffs to discuss about or exchange recipes and I've learned quite a bit from her (gardening, cooking, etc) which is awesome, because I appreciate those.
My in-laws are more aloof when it comes to getting involved in our life, compared to my parents LOL but it's cool, imho, I've read many people complain about their in-laws and how nosy they get, but my in-laws totally let us decide things for ourselves, how we want to raise our kid, and etc, never once an unsolicited advise (in front of me anyway, hubby said that they do give him some flack if they think he's not doing things right LOL).

i get along great with my future mother in law. she kind of reminds me of a grandmother.. she's just really sweet and has a kind, but old, soul. she wouldn't hurt a fly. sometimes i find her passiveness irritating.. but everyone has their flaws. my future mother in law has 2 sons and 1 daughter and out of the three of them, my boyfriend and i are the most "normal" and undramatic. so i think she finds that to be reassuring. i love her and i know she loves me, and that's what matters the most. i feel really lucky about that.

right now I'm not in a relationship,but I think that getting along with your mother in law is very important. Even if people say its not true they are part of the package and they have an influence over your significant other. My mom relationship with my grandmother was so bad that when she went to Spain to meet her she left shortly after, my grand mother was horrible to her and she would make nasty comments about us. I think my parent marriage lasted because we lived in a different continent. My mom always tells me that if they lived in Spain that relationship wouldn't have lasted. The same happen with one of my uncles(in my mother side) my grandmother was so toxic and mean to my uncle's wife that she destroyed the marriage. Its even worst when they are a mama's boy. All these experiences have thought me that mothers in law have a lot of power, and if they want they can destroy your relationship.

I actually adore my (future) mother-in-law. And I know for sure she loves me back and she always has the nicest things to say for my to the rest of the family (as my boyfriend tells me). I couldnt ask for a kinder person, I feel happy especially after so many horrible stories I hear from friends having troubles with their mother-in-laws and all.

We get along fine but we have nothing in common so we never have any real conversations. But overall I like her and she likes me.

we get along fine, though sometimes it's a little uncomfortable because she still treats me and the boy like children from time to time. when she gets a little bit of drink in her, though, her real feelings always come out and i know she truly does like me and considers me part of her family.

I love my partners mom. I consider myself really lucky that his family is so incredible and easy to get along with.

My MIL is a strong woman who raised her son to think of women as equals! She rocks. We but heads occasionally, but have been able to work it out. She is the most flexible person I have met, and I can really learn a thing or two from her.

My future MIL is such a sweetheart I get along with her very well.

My boyfriend's mom is amazing! His family is Albanian, and I was nervous about meeting her at first because I had this stereotype in my head from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but she is nothing like I thought she would be! She's amazingly intelligent (she once worked at MIT), tender, loving, has had many ambitious careers, doesn't take any crap and is quite definitely the matriarch of US branch of his family, lol! I actually get along much better with her and can be more honest with her than with my own mom.

It's really my parents that are the problem in the relationship. I'm the oldest, and my dad is in the Army, so refusal-to-cut-apron-strings+overprotectiveness+Army training in psychological warfare = extra bad news for my bf, at least on my dad's part. My mom hates him because we've had sex and feels like he's "taken her little girl from her", even though I've been out of the house and of legal age for longer than we've been dating (2 years). She finds a way to insinuate that she thinks I made a gigantic mistake every time he comes up in conversation. I'm almost ready to strangle the pair of them myself!

My boyfriend's mom and I get along rediculously well.

Though sometimes my boyfriend tells me that I keep getting more and more like his mom, for weird reasons, like the fact that we both like sauerkraut and corned beef.

My MIL and and have a great relationship.My main problem with her is that she always wants to buy me something she likes (and I usually don´t), so I have to be very careful when she asks me if I like something. I don´t want to hurt her feelings but if I tell her it´s ok, it´s mine. Sometimes I have to ask my husband for help, LOL.
It´s funny because when she wants to tell my husband something and she doesn´t know how he will react, she asks me to tell him because she is afraid he will get mad at her, and she says he is not capable to get mad at me.

She's a saint. Nicest woman ever, even nicer than my own mother.

we get along, because I wouldnt let her take the upper hand.

My bf's mom is not very nice to me. In front of me she has asked about his ex, how nice she was, how she wishes he would have stayed with her, how she realty liked her...etc. His grandmother (mom's mom) is always calling me fat (mind you she is like 300lbs) and always asking how much money I make (I never say) and how his ex could afford to "keep" my bf (he doesn't want to be a "kept" man though). His mother doesn't invite me over for family gatherings, always makes back-handed remarks, and is very passive-aggressive. She hates it when I introduce her son to new foods because she only ever makes him meat and buttered breads and like 2 veggies. I got him eating more salads and veggies he now likes and when she found out she was yelling her son "isn't a f*cking rabbit eating all that sh*t!". Plus when he needed an emergency appendectomy I was in the hospital with him for about 11 hours, she didn't show up until about 2 minutes before the surgery (and when i called her throughout the day with updates and test results she would tell me only to call her if it was important) and the whole time we were in the waiting room (with her friend she brought because she didn't want to be bored!) all she talked about was how this was messing up her plans for the night. We got out at 3am and she didn't offer me a ride home (I live about a 6 minute drive from her house in queens and we were both in Manhattan at the time).

Yeah, she doesn't like me and makes it a point to make sure I know. I haven't seen her in about a year and I am fine. I wish we could get along though.

My MIL and I barely get along on the surface but that's because I can't actually be myself around her. After my husband and I got engaged, she started buying my husband gifts that expressed how "how a mother's love is the only love that stands the test of time" and it's "true love" and would buy wall plaques, pictures, books even a pillow stating how her motherly love can never be replaced (by me of course!). She then expected all this stuff to have a home in the living room and would ask where it was when she was over.

Also, she used to drop hints about us living in sin because we lived together before marriage and how she prayed for us every night. When we wanted to get married at the beach, she said she couldn't attend the wedding because she would be sinning by partaking in an unholy matrimony. She constantly drops hints about me sinning because I'm on birth control and I'm preventing God's wish of children. And she constantly is questioning whether or not we say grace at dinner and tells my husband that she raised her son better than that and she's not happy with him.

When we visit her (and thankfully my husband avoids his family as much as possible), the men go into the game room to play pool and I'm expected to sit with her while she reads a book rather than talk to me. I wish I could just be honest with her and tell her that a. I don't want children and b. that I am an atheist.

My mother-in-law and I get along fairly okay, but we're not best buddies. I wish she'd cut the umbilical cord so to speak, my husband is her youngest and she gets mad if he doesn't come over once a week to visit her and wants to see us every day during the Christmas season. Plus she is a borderline alcoholic and she gets over-emotional when she drinks and says a lot of inappropriate/embarrassing/illogical things, which makes her impossible to talk to sometimes.

I absolutely love my mother in law. She's a very understanding woman and she even told me that even if I'm not with her son, I still have her. She's too awsome.

My mother in law is fine it is my father in law I cannot stand and he is coming to spend at least a week with us. I'm so stressed and not sure I can "act nice" for that length of time. Mother in law lives a long way from us which probably keeps the relationship simpler and I do think us wives do forget that this woman raised her son....so she does have some "rights" over him.

ugh. my MIL is a total enabler. it's her way or no way. when my husband has a differing opinion from hers as to, say, raise his own son, she yells at him until he relents. Knowing her helps me understand why he drank. I got him out of that and he sobered up and is now a great guy to be around. But now I am the "enemy" because I took her son and grandson away from her. Yes, I stole them. Nevermind that it was me who helped her son get clean, and quit the drugs, and the bad friends, and got him going to church, and even considering a career in the ministry! And when our counsellor suggested THE FIRST TIME we saw him, that my hub cut all ties to his mom for one year, she accused me of secretly meeting with the counsellor beforehand to fill his head with lies about her. Yep. This is my world. I consider leaving the marriage about once a week.