I thought I was close to my former MIL, but boy, when his son decided to walk out on his family, that was it. I've scarcely seen her since.

I only got to meet my current husband's mother once. She was in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Everyone tells me how sweet she was. I wish I could have gotten to know her, but her dementia, plus us living in other countries, meant we only got one meeting.