Ladies, thanks for sharing these lovely, tender stories. It's so important that we stay focused on the good in others.

gims, did you at one time get along with your MIL? I did, but as the kids grew, she was needed less, and somehow I got blamed for it. She was a very needy person for reasons that went back to her childhood. For awhile, our family could fill those needs so I was all that and then some. But once they became more independent, as kids do, it was my fault that they were no longer interested in Nana. Truth is, they loved her but they were more into staying at their friend's homes as they got older which left her out. She took it personally. Somehow, I was the one she blamed for it. I think it has something to do with women not being able to take things out on their sons?