It is so great to be reading your thread with feedback from both perspectives!
Rottzilla - This is totally how my H's family is:
"I place a lot of blame on my MIL, maybe incorrectly, but she is the guilt queen, and he grew up feeling a lot of guilt in her house. She still guilts him, but doesn't mean to. She really wants to just love him, but I think he gets a lot of guilty feelings from MIL's style of mothering."
How do you and H deal with this now? My H feels a tremendous amount of guilt especially with work and not being able to say "no" to extra work.
Hope you both have a great day
SP
According to the Buddha, praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow may "come and go like the wind," but happiness comes if you can "rest like a great tree in the midst of them all."