Quote From: rettsgemI've been a mother-in-law three times and am looking to another time when I will welcome another one into the fold. :) The situations I saw on the show today were too shameful for words. I find it hard to believe that adults are behaving so badly and even criminal. Unfortunately, it was a sad reminder ot how things were with my own mother-in-law many, many moons ago. She died in March 1991 after a brief battle with cancer. Her son, my husband, had to go to the Gulf with his battalion and I came to her from Germany to be her care-giver with Hospice. At first she tried to make it as hard on me as she could. And I wanted to leave that place and go back to Germany where my little doggie was and pray for my husband's safe return, but I knew I couldn't. My husband was in a dangerous place and his mother was terminally ill. Finally I had had it and made plans to return to Germany. Before I was to leave her, I sat down in front of her and told her what would might be like after I left. Strangers would be taking care of her and they would not put up with her shannigans. She relented and asked me to stay. It was hard being there and still stressful but minus the animosity like before. I could deal. After years of having this woman verbally abuse me and try to break up my marriage, the last thing she told me before she died was, "I love you".
It was nice she recongized you by telling her she loved you before she passed away. It was kind of you to care for her, even though you were not required to do so and it was difficult at times. I am guessing you do not regret your decision to stay.
