Whoa! Poster, are you my sister-in-law?! Sounds like my MIL, except her other DIL doesn’t have internet access. Uncanny. My MIL is not exactly Mrs. Warm-and-Fuzzy, while I am a warmer sort of person, so it tends to drive me crazy when she refers to my FIL as “my husband.” Anyone know the rationale behind that? And I’m not newly married. Nor am I the first child-in-law. I do call my MIL “Mommy” and have from day one, but I’m not so uncomfortable with that because that’s not what I call my own mother. What does make me uncomfortable is the lack of warmth. I’ve never even heard either of my in-laws tell any of their (many, ka”h) children and grandchildren that they love them!
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