Comments on: I Can’t Stand My Mother-In-Law (Part Two) http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/marriage-family-bliss/i-can%e2%80%99t-stand-my-mother-in-law-part-two/49270/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Julie http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/marriage-family-bliss/i-can%e2%80%99t-stand-my-mother-in-law-part-two/49270/#comment-38690 Julie Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:29:25 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/?p=49270#comment-38690 So here's a question for you or anyone else who is reading this, what do I do about a MIL that wants to be best friends because she never had a daughter and desperately wants one? But my BIL's girlfriend and I have good relationships with our own mothers but our MIL tries to push a close mother-daughter relationship with her on us. I don't particularly like her anyway(she only cleans her house once every 3 months so it is always nasty, she is rather loud and obnoxious, offers unsolicited advice constantly, and a few other minor things) but am willing to be friendly with her. The problem is she constantly calls my BIL's girlfriend and I "the daughters she never had." Its a lot of pressure and neither one of us want that type of relationship with her. I also have nothing in common with her and am almost dreading the day we have kids because we view all that stuff differently and she loves to give unsolicited advice and expects you to follow it to the letter. Part of that is because she teaches high school. So now that I've ranted on for far too long, any suggestions on how to approach this without hurting her feeling? So here’s a question for you or anyone else who is reading this, what do I do about a MIL that wants to be best friends because she never had a daughter and desperately wants one? But my BIL’s girlfriend and I have good relationships with our own mothers but our MIL tries to push a close mother-daughter relationship with her on us. I don’t particularly like her anyway(she only cleans her house once every 3 months so it is always nasty, she is rather loud and obnoxious, offers unsolicited advice constantly, and a few other minor things) but am willing to be friendly with her. The problem is she constantly calls my BIL’s girlfriend and I “the daughters she never had.” Its a lot of pressure and neither one of us want that type of relationship with her. I also have nothing in common with her and am almost dreading the day we have kids because we view all that stuff differently and she loves to give unsolicited advice and expects you to follow it to the letter. Part of that is because she teaches high school.

So now that I’ve ranted on for far too long, any suggestions on how to approach this without hurting her feeling?

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