I don't know your mother in law, qt4, but my wife is acting exactly like her mom when faced with similar problems during her marriage. I never liked my MIL but I loved my wife. Now my MIL and my wife have become the same and I am better off not talking to both of them. I am glad that my wife gave me a PPO at this point. It prevents me to have any kind of communication with her which is the right thing to do, and I am not sure that I would have done it without the PPO. When my wife is ready to talk to me again, she will have the PPO removed and she will contact me, and hopefully at that point she will be the woman that I married again and I loved for 10 years.