Maggie you said, "if it hadn't been for me my husband wouldn't go visit his mother as much".

I have found this to be true in my marriage too. I think it is because men in general don't communicate as much as women do. We find ourselves keeping up with the friends and family because that's what we tend to do.

I often say to my husband, "Have you talked to your mom or dad lately?"...or, "I think we need to check in with your mom and dad."

Yet, sometimes I think the mothers of our husbands think we keep them from their sons. We can't help it if the guys aren't the big communicators that we women are.

Make sense?

Maybe that is one of the reasons their is this whole mother-in-law/daughter-in-law thing that has been mentioned in here before.

All I know is that I have 2 sons and 1 daughter so I have all this to look forward to.