re: Does your mom and your wife get along?

I personally can not wait to have grandbabies to babysit. But not everyone is a 'baby' person, and grandparents are not to be taken advantage of for free child care.

Also, I was diametrically at odds with my mother in law. She was loud, intrusive, would say impulsive and hurtful things, and try to manipulate our family's decisions. She was also arrogant and felt she knew what was best for everyone because she was always the smartest person in the room. She and my husband were very close when she was alive, and it was always a source of stress. I hated it when he started literally anything with "my mom thinks... or my mom says we should..." Nothing about my relationship with her was 'fixable'. It was something that we both just put up with the best we could.