A little bit freaked out!

[Kaz]

How strange

It is!

[JoM]

How lovely, I think it’s a sign too x

Kaz, my Dad used to jokingly call my Nan (his mother in law) the dragon, she always laughed and they thought the world of each other.

[Kaz]

Yes, that’s lovely Jo

[Suff]

That will be different Kaz. All mine are finished with weddings now, having managed 6 between them. However if my MiL came back to visit us at a family event I don't think it would be as a benign character.... Since my parents are still around it is more a case of keeping my mother away from the Gin and the dance floor....

[Kaz]

That made me smile, Suff

[JoM]

I don’t think either me or John’s sister’s husband would get away so lightly with calling our mother in law by a jokey nickname

Especially seeing as she referred to Mike (who is a really lovely man) as ‘your sister’s husband’ while talking to John recently
36 years as his mother in law and she’s never accepted him. I remember doing T’s hair on her wedding day and she was annoyed that her mother had just told her, an hour before leaving for the church, that if it didn’t work out she could always come back home.

[JanB]

My mother also told me that " it won''t last you know"

41 years next week

[JanB]

T'other one, who she worshiped, lasted 7 years before I kicked him out, because of all his affairs.

She was still wittering on about him, years later

[Kaz]

Good grief, Jo!

Jan, my mum really liked my first husband, Steve. When we broke up over his affair she asked me what I did to make him do it!

[Suff]

Families.

When Mrs S and I met she had her eldest daughter with her, a friend and the friends daughter.

Mrs S is older than me but between us we still had 6 children.

The meeting ended up with all 4 of the women being married within the following year and 3 of the party I was with plus one RAF guy.

As you can imagine, I was 26 when we married and my family was a nightmare about it.

Several decades later Mrs S and I are the only ones left married. All the rest are divorced. We were the couple least expected to remain married.

Families. The odd thing was that Mrs S' family was very supportive and remain very close to this day. Even if my Mil was a Very difficult person.