If you knew what you know now would avoid having a JustNoMIL

I would like to add that while I said I should have booked it, I think I mean I just wish I didn't try as hard with them. Just call a spade a spade and let my husband deal with them.

He's stood up to them before regarding their treatment towards me, but he also loves his dad and sees his dad as a victim of his step mom's abuse (which I don't doubt he is).

As for my real MIL, other than a couple times of boundary pushing after she became a born again Christian, we've all had a good relationship. She even gave me the pearls she wore on her wedding day as my "something borrowed" for mine. And while we don't talk much, she's always been welcoming and nice. She showed up to my Mom's funeral and reached out after my Dad died. She reached out on my birthday and New Year.

I guess you just have to take the good with the bad.

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