[slight hijack]
Actually, as odd as it may sound ** ShibbOleth *, I wasn’t really feeling sorry for * you. You have a spouse and kids and a life and are obviously an o.k. person! However, your MIL must be a bitter twisted old bat to cut herself off from her grandchildren just because they’re half of the “wrong” race.
Oddly enough, it makes me sad for her.
[/hijack over]
I really like my MIL. After all she prefers Kirk to Picard!
and…she’s kind of hot.
(the ultimate ducking and running now commences)
This pretty much sums up my MIL relationship. We just have nothing at all in common, other than her son.
ShibbOleth, just idle curiosty, but who’s the ‘wrong’ race, you or her?
I’m the wrong race to marry into her family. Not Asian or doctor enough, apparently.
I got along fine with my 1st mother-in-law, but there were quite a few comprehension problems due to our very different backgrounds. She has since commented on my incredible patience and understanding for putting up with her daughter as long as I did. For the record, my ex didn’t get along with my mother, but generally hid it from her and dumped it all on me.
My new mother-in-law and I get along even better - she had a similar background as the first, but is much more open to new things/ideas. My wife and my mom get along great too.
My MIL used to drive me nuts - mostly because she kept giving me unsolicited advice on how to do everything. I recall a good 15 minutes about how to get utilities switched to our new address - something I’d done many times, and had never needed advice with.
Then one day she said something about the Beatles, and said “Of course, you’re far too young to recall anything like that.” I realized that she’s been giving me helpful little lectures because she underestimates my age by at least ten years. Now I enjoy the advice tremendously. 
I like my mother in law. However, my ex mother in law was a piece of work:
She took my husband’s girlfriend on a family vacation with them. While I was still married to him. Before I knew he had a girlfriend.