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My MIL is trying to like me, but just can't accept that I stay home with the kids, while my wife works. When we got pregnant, and decided to look for a bigger house, she couldn't understand why we wouldn't just have my wife's nine year old share her room with the baby. This from someone who, when moving to Nashville to go back to school for three years, bought a new construction twice the square footage, or more, of what we now have, and it's just her, her dog, and her cat.
After the boyo was born, she came up to see him by way of flying to St. Louis, intruding upon my FIL(whom she'd left a few years ago)for about a week, and driving up with him. She actually told my stepdaughter that she would come visit again when we have another baby. Yeah, that six hour drive to see yer grandkids just ain't worth it; don't let the door hit you inna ass on the way out, lady.
By no means am I anything but pleasant and polite the couple times I've seen her, and when she calls, but I've managed to survive for 38 years, now, without her guidance, so I pretty much shrug her off.
My FIL, on the other hand, is just so easy to hang out with. Moreso, probably, since he's been single again, and living his life as he sees fit. He's just marking time until he can retire onto his boat, and be rid of everything else. As long as we're happy, he's happy.
My wife really likes my mom, because she's totally opposite my MIL. She raised me and my brother, and is leaving it up to us to raise our own kids, as we and our spouses, see fit. No stress whatsoever when the missus and my mom are around each other. Actually, they tend to gang up on me....
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