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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2464959" data-attributes="member: 2205">My wife's relationship with her parents used to be sorta like this too.  She also used to kinda suck up to them, out of habit I think more than anything else, and she didn't want me to jeopardize her relationship with them by saying what I really thought.It finally changed as my wife gradually lost her patience with them, and one incidence where I did lose my cool and tell them off just a bit.  We had thought that we'd need to move out of town to improve our relationship with them by simply not seeing them much, but after that event (which occured about a year and a half before we moved) they sorta changed how they treated my wife in many regards.  By the time we left, my wife had drastically improved her relationship (especially with her mother, who was by far the worse of the two.)The price of that, of course, is that now they don't like me, but I'm OK with that.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm not sure if that helps you in your situation or not, but it worked for us anyway.</blockquote>