Any tips on getting your mother-in-law to at least show some interest in you?

My mother-in-law is very self-centred and spends the entirety of any visit talking about herself, her friends, and her friend's friends. She'll ask about your day but she interrupts you as soon as you start to say anything after "It's been a good day". It's frustrating. You can't talk to her at all.

She moved to be closer to us and I thought it would get better but it didn't. She calls me all the time to talk about her friend's son who was in a motorcycle accident and what he did at physio. She tells me about her friend's sister who is going through a divorce. These friends I've never met. I've told her many times that, politely, I don't know these friends of hers. I've never met them, their children, or siblings. I don't mean to be mean but.... I don't care.

She talks about all these things that are irrelevant and whenever I start to talk, she interrupts me and tells her own stories. I've talked with her privately. My husband and sister-in-law have talked with her. We've all pointed it out in the moment too. She doesn't care because she keeps doing it. Or if we do point it out, she makes this big deal about how "Oh I didn't even know you were talking. Oh God I feel bad. Do you think I'm losing my hearing? Oh my God my friend Mimi's husband is hard of hearing and he has to wear these hearing aids that he's always losing and....' suddenly she's talking about herself or someone we don't know again.

At this point I've given up even talking around her. She doesn't know that I went back to work a year ago and got a massive promotion. She doesn't know that I was accepted to a master's program. She doesn't know that I'm a featured writer in one of my friend's books of stories from women in my line of work.

I'm not looking for her approval or acceptance but it would be nice if she at least showed some interest in me. The only thing I can talk about without her interrupting is my daughter, but she asks closed questions and it's brief, like essentially what she's doing at daycare and if she needs new clothes. Then she's off to the races again and talking about a friend's granddaughter who's in daycare and how that daycare is sooooo bad...

I just don't know how to deal with it. My husband is starting to have the same issue and he's now like "She knows more about damn Harry and his motorcycle accident than about us."

@Jessica she is 70. She used to be a great listener and we used to talk for hours on the phone and go back and forth, but not anymore. It's all one-sided now. I can't even get a complete sentence out