monster-in-law

I am very lucky in the fact that my mother-in-law and I have always had a very close relationship. I married my husband when I was 16 (almost 17). My mother threw a fit about it and refused to attend the wedding. She didn't talk to me for a year after we were married. My sister and her husband lived above us and my mother would get out of her car, walk right past me and not speak. It really hurt me, especially since my mother had married when she was 16 and my father was 18. And yes, I know that most marriages at that young of an age do not last and I would not want my girls to follow in my footsteps (they're already past that since they are 18 and 19). However, for my mother to totally cut me loose cut deeply. During that year, I turned to my mother-in-law for everything. If I needed advice about something, I would talk to her. She became my second mother and I call her mom. I love my mother and Rick's mother could never take her place but my mother-in-law does have a very special place in my heart. She is very kind and loving. She hates arguing and avoids them at all costs. She would tease me about my housekeeping and tsk when the house would get messy but she was never one of those put the gloves on and look for dust kind of mother-in-laws. And if my husband and I got into an argument, she didn't always side with him. If she thought he was right, she would agree with him. Otherwise, she would take up for me. She has always treated me as well as she treats her own daughters so yes, I consider myself very lucky to have her in my life.

the latter =O 'nuf said =)