Few words...... :-)

Wow,

Positive words...

Thank you Ammu. :wow

 

Ammu,

Almost sounded like I was listening to my mother. Those are the principles she lives by and what she kept telling us all our life. Still does! She proved your second point right. Her MIL was mean to her (though she was a great grandmother, and I still love her), but at the end, it was my mother she wanted by her side - not the daughter she always kept on a pedestal. She drank her last drop of water from my mother, and died in my mother's hands. My mother suffered under her for so many years, never complaining to anybody saying that one day she would be accepted. And even though we always asked her why she tolerated it, she just said that if it was her mother she would and hence her silence towards her mother in law.

Unfortunately I am not as saintly as my mother, so do vent out to my closest friends and here.