Snowy,that is one of the loveliest things I have ever read about in-laws. I always wished my MIL was exactly the way you are, but she is not. Our relationship is civilised on the surface but very poor underneath. She has never forgiven me for taking her son away.

As for the saying a son is a son until he gets a wife. I believe that to be true. In the main it is the woman who makes the home and if she chooses to make someone uncomfortable then she can. Men seem to go along with whatever the wife does as far as domestic matters are concerned.