Do you like your in-laws? Why or why not?

[BlueIris]

By way of explanation, my sister married the jackass from hell this past summer and I had to spend the holidays with them both. HAAAAAATED it (he's...a jackass and he's married to my baby sister!). I'm coping with his presence in the family alright, but it's hard when I'm...face to face with him. Because: jackass.

[NMDemDist2]

1. other than my MIL being a "fusser" I love my in laws

all of em

[MrCoffee]

2. The way MrsCoffee's parents treat her is sick (in the clinical sense)

her mom's the most passive-aggressive person i've ever met, and her dad should be treated for psychiatric problems.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Well...

having 2 sets...I love one, and can't stand the other... :)

[Kali]

4. They are both deceased.

But they were great folks before that. His mom totally reminded me of the granny that had Tweety and Sylvester. His dad was the best.

[Redstone]

5. I don't know my in-laws, because they live in South Africa.

Redstone

[BlueIris]

7. Seriously?

That is way far away.

[Redstone]

9. Yes. We haven't visited because it's damned expensive. And unsafe there.

Redstone

[LeftyMom]

6. Halving the crazy family in my life was almost the best thing about getting divorced.

Getting the crazy, violent, drunk asshole out of my house edged out ditching the people who made him the paragon of virtue he is today, but not by the ratio it ought to have. :eyes:

[Rosemary2205]

8. My SIL has devolved onto a rad RW evangelical nut.

My brother now lives in hell.

[mark414]

10. i have only a brother and sister in law

and they are both awesome...

[Blue-Jay]

11. I love my in-laws.

Even the crazy ones, like Chris & Aric. They all treat me like family, and I appreciate it.

[NC_Nurse]

12. Some things I like about my IL's and some things I don't...

They are all nice people, but with serious issues that aren't really my problem, so I try to stay out of it. My family is pretty crazy, so I'm used to ducking and running if necessary.
I'm good at it.


;)

[Ariana Celeste]

13. My in-laws are great.

Anthony and his dad are getting along great now, and between both of his parents we got bailed out of jail and our lawyer is paid for. They both treat me as if though I've always been a part of the family. And Anthony's brother is a sweetheart, too. His Grandparents are also very good to me and send me chocolate and gummi bears from Germany all the time. :)

[Broken_Hero]

14. I love my father/mother in law

they are very good, caring people....:D

[Courtesy Flush]

15. I have wonderful in-laws.

They're warm, giving people, who have probably never had a fight in 63 years of marriage. My wife's in-laws were unbearable :).

[BOSSHOG]

16. I can relate

My mother in law and father in law (he's now deceased) could not possibly have treated me better. Wonderful people. My wife on the other hand had a little bit of mom in law problems. My mom spoiled me rotten and no one could take care of me as well as her. All was civil but my wife could not do anything for me as well as Mom, in Mom's eyes.

[BarenakedLady]

17. they are both dead nt

[msanthrope]

18. www.motherinlawstories.com Come post your woes

and add to the other commentary......

[QMPMom]

27. Hey Pacoyogi! It's your Edmonton friend, here.

www.motherinlawstories.com saved my sanity. It really, really did!

[SoyCat]

19. Other--I love half of them and will do anything to avoid the other half.

[NewWaveChick1981]

20. Other...

My FIL is 80 now and the only problem I've ever had with him is that he's pretty selfish. He's fine to me and to my husband, but his wife (my MIL) has always come second behind whatever FIL wants....whether it's watching ballgames or whatever. :eyes: My MIL, however, has some fits of insanity, and I don't say that lightly. :yoiks: She's always had some problems, but it's gotten worse over the years. All of her family members, including me, have tried to get her seek medical attention for her problems, and she won't. She is extremely afraid of all medications (even aspirin) for one reason or another, and she won't take anything at all. (This is really odd, seeing as how my FIL is a retired pharmacist, and my SIL---hubby's sister--- and my other SIL's husband are pharmacists too.) She thinks she's never had a problem and doesn't have one currently, and therein lies the issue. She has all kinds of other issues too, and it's hard to be around her. She berates my husband for the same things every single time we see them or talk to them, and I won't stand for it.

I believe in helping people, but since she does NOT want help, I've washed my hands of the situation. We see my in-laws as infrequently as possible, even though they only live 30 minutes away (and they live four miles from my new place of employment). Although she isn't evil per se, she's a toxic person, and I don't need that kind of grief.

[Generic Brad]

21. Mine are both deceased

My MIL would have hated me with the passion of a million burning suns. She was a Hiroshima atom bomb survivor and intensely hated anything American. But she died before I ever met my wife.

My FIL, now deceased, was a nice guy and I got along fine with him the few times we met, but he could never remember my foreign sounding name. He used to write to my wife and sign off in English with "Say 'Hi' to Bird for me".

[tigereye]

22. I wish they were still around

both were funny, pragmatic, generous, kind to everyone in their small town, quite liberal (MIL) and just a lot of fun to be around.

[BlueIris]

23. Jackass. nt

[Blue-Jay]

25. are you calling yourself a jackass?

Or just pimping your own thread for more responses?

[Flaxbee]

24. I have none -- husband's parents were

both dead by the time we married, and he doesn't really talk to his brother. So, I have no in-laws. He, on the other hand, has both my parents and five sisters. He's OK with them. They love him because they love me, but he's not really comfortable around family, having been alone for so long.

[QMPMom]

26. MIL and FIL are both dead now, but while FIL always treated me

well (I was his only hope for a male grandchild to carry on the name), MIL and I got along like oil and water. I hated her and she felt pretty much the same about me. She made my life a living hell from about three minutes after we left the church after our wedding (I am not exagerrating!) until the day she died 17 1/2 years later.

If you all have a few days, I can list everything that happened. It was hell for a lot of years and I ended up in therapy more than once and DH and I ended up in marriage counselling because of her.

DH and I decided that she died when she did out of spite. Long story, but DH and I have a chuckle once in a while about the circumstances. DH was fed up with her and said "No" to her and she didn't like it. Not one little bit did she like it! She went into a coma within a couple of hours and was dead within 15 hours. (She'd been in the hospital for a few weeks.)

I did not like her but, when it came time to plan her funeral, I made sure she was sent out in style and in a grand fashion. I wasn't going to let the rest of her family and friends say that I arranged anything less than a wonderful funeral and funeral luncheon.

Then, there's the story about the dress I had for the funeral. }(

[Mutley]

28. I have a brother-in-law

He's great. :thumbsup: