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This is what I would do. Do you know what kind of flowers your wife likes? Of course you do...lol Make plans to visit her mom's grave if you can. Go out and get a bundle of mixed flowers with some of the flowers your wife likes and her mom liked, included in the bundle. Your wife would be so happy that you took it upon yourself to do this. These flowers would be for her mother's grave. Spend some time at the grave site and talk about wonderful memories.
If you can't visit her grave because you live far away from it then do this at home - honor her mother by conjuring up some wonderful memories she has of her. Take some time to talk about her life. Light a beautiful candle in her honor and say a prayer. Then take your wife out to lunch or dinner and enjoy the rest of the day together. I think she would really appreciate this. And don't forget flowers for your wife too. :)

2007-05-11 06:34:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

What a sweet man! Wish I could run you through a copier so a lot more sad women would have such a nice fellow in their lives!

Ask if you can say a special prayer said in honor of Mother at church. Or, at least during Testimony, announce to the congregation how much she meant to YOU - as a S-I-L and how her passing has put a hole in your life - not just your wife's.
Make a special trip out to the cemetery to put fresh flowers on Mother's grave. While there, confess to Wife that you really miss her mother - and what a lucky man you are that you had two such special and wonderful women in your life.
Take an ad out in the local paper honoring Mother.
Contribute to your local PBS or Public Radio with a Day sponsorship in Mother's honor.
Make a donation to Mother's favorite charity in her honor.

Above all, support your wife and honor her sad feelings. Reassure her that you understand her pain - that you feel the loss terribly deeply too - and that you're so fortunate to know that eventually you will be reunited with such a lovely soul as Mother.

Again, you're a real gem of a guy.

2007-05-11 06:42:30 · answer #2 · answered by Barbara B 7 · 0 0

You could get a special photograph of her mother in a beautiful frame and make a gift of it, and for the day light a votive candle in front of the picture in memory of her mother. Your wife will cry, but it will be good for her to know you are thinking of her feelings.

2007-05-11 06:25:34 · answer #3 · answered by oisian88 4 · 1 0

Those sad feelings can hang around forever and mess up her life, and yours, too. Get her the Dianetics DVD from the Dianetics website and do the procedure in it, and her feelings might just cheer up a lot and she'll thank you for it. This can help with a lot of things. It worked for me after my father's death, and can really get you out of those gloomy thoughts that hang around, and into some happy memories that are good to think about.

2007-05-11 06:26:42 · answer #4 · answered by skier_80302 4 · 0 0

Do something to commemorate her mom.

My mom died of cancer 2 years ago. She loved hummingbirds. A kind neighbor hung a hummingbird feeder outside the window she sat for the last months of her life. I can't have a hummingbird feeder wher I am so I have small wind chimes in the house with hummingbirds to remember her by.

What ever her mom liked - give her something to have in the house to remember her by.

2007-05-11 06:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by V 5 · 0 0

BE VERY SENSITIVE TO HER NEEDS AND BE THERE AS A SHOULDER TO CRY ON. hug her and comfort her and go w/her to the cemetary and buy flowers for her mom etc...just be a sweetheart to her. there are not enough men like that in this world. my hubby does not really go w/me to my daughters grave. it was his step daughter n my real daughter who died last yr of cancer. i wish he would hug me while i cried on his shoulder. but he never has and at the funeral he didnet even do that and i needed it !! so just be w/ur wife n love her n hold her.

2007-05-11 06:25:23 · answer #6 · answered by NEWPORT BEACH GIRL 4 · 1 0

Plant a beautiful flowering tree or shrub in your yard in memory of your mother-in-law.

2007-05-11 07:38:52 · answer #7 · answered by Ronnie 2 · 1 0

Buy a beautiful angel. When my baby daughters died, that helped me. I buy new ones every year on their birthdays.
Maybe you could find one that looks like her mom.

2007-05-11 06:35:48 · answer #8 · answered by Mommy Aubrey Sweetheart 1 · 0 0

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