Re: what does it mean ( MIL QUESTION)
Nadz...first of all, congrats on your marriage.
Second, just take a deep breath and stop trying to analyze everything. Your MIL's behavior doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary. A lot of us don't like having long conversations on the phone. We're not big on saying "I love you" out loud, especially if we've had a conservative Pakistani upbringing where affection is deemed silly and almost haraam (wrongfully so). And most of us on GS (if we're female) have heard the phrase "achay kapre pahna" a billion times since we could first understand spoken speech from every female relative, friend, random person off the street, etc and will continue to hear it for the rest of our lives. Heck, my eighty-something year old nani, in addition to telling me to wear nice things, will also tell my sixty something mother to wear something pretty.
There doesn't seem to be a problem here...yet. But if you continue looking for the negative implications of others' actions, you will definitely find them and then you WILL have problems.
You've just been married. Relax, have fun and get to know your hubby better. Give people the benefit of the doubt and try to look for the good stuff...Inshallah, everything will be fine.