In-Laws

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Claireack wrote:

But she was inadvertantly hilarious too, she once got a new tv and asked my hubby to tune it in for her, we spent ages fiddling about with it and she kept saying it was too dark, so we kept making it brighter and brighter until we could barely stand to look at it. It was at this point that we realised she was wearing her sunglasses.

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Well I'm single, but I have a brother-in-law (sister's husband) and sister-in-law (brother's wife).

My sister and brother-in-law have been married 10 years now. I didn't particularly care for him at first - not as a brother-in-law anyway. He can be pretty anti-social and had a completely different sense of family than my family does. For instance, when my sister and I turned 21 we made plans to go out at midnight on the night before to have our first legal drinks together. When I showed up to pick her up, he said she was already asleep and wouldn't let me in! (They were just dating at the time, but lived together.) I didn't think he had any right to keep me from dragging her ass out of bed to celebrate our special day, but he did. He's really come around over time though, and we have a really great relationship now. I sometimes call him my husband-in-law because he takes care of me as an extension of his wife. (No - not like that. Get your mind out of the gutter!) He cooks for me, fixes stuff around my house, comes over with a shot gun when strange men knock at my door in the middle of the night, etc. And, even though we're really different in many, many ways, I really love him as if he were my real brother.

My brother & his wife JUST got married and I introduced them so of course I think she's awesome. Only time will tell how things will evolve, but I expect it to always be good.

Also, my brother-in-law and sister-in-law have amazing families who treat my family like part of theirs, and I really appreciate that. My sister's MIL doesn't have daugthers and when her son married my sister she said she now had TWO daugthers (me & my sister). Very sweet.

lukin2006

I try to avoid them at all cost, fortunately the wife feels the same way.

decides2dream

lukin2006 wrote:

I try to avoid them at all cost, fortunately the wife feels the same way.

:thumbup:
seriously.


i feel guilty about it sometimes, it's just so easy. never had any of the usual marital/holiday issues, always a given....with my family. at most, we do christmas eve with my bro-in-law and his GF, and once went to his sister's around the holidays, but that's it. it's sad, but also.....easy. eh well.

PillowPants

i have no issues... mine are dead


that's good humor right there!! nice work 81

decides2dream

Lambchops wrote:

i have no issues... mine are dead


that's good humor right there!! nice work 81

seriously...still makes me laugh.
man, i am a horrible person.... :oops: :?

redrock

My inlaws are fantastic people. I love them to bits.

CHANGEinWAVES

my ex mother in law was a bitch... but she loved me to death until I told her I wasn't having children, that's when I went on her shit list.

My Ex husbands father was an awesome guy, very much like my dad. Unfortunately he passed away from cancer before we were married. I know he liked me cause he was the one who told my ex he should date me when we were just coworkers. The night I found out he passed is still the saddest night of my life, even through my divorce and other hardships.

Who Princess

My mother-in-law was a very sweet person. Although I didn't feel close to her necessarily, I liked her. For the most part she was easy to get along with and very nonjudgmental. My husband is a lot like her. She died of a stroke last May after suffering a milder stroke about a year before. Now that she's gone I find that I miss her a lot. I'm not looking forward to Christmas without her. In particular, I have a memory of Thanksgiving last year, when she was helping me in the kitchen and, still recovering from her first stroke, how good-natured she was as she struggled to remember certain words.

My father-in-law often exasperates me. He has a strong personality and he can be very intimidating. He was really domineering to his kids growing up and continued to tell them what to do as adults. Two of them dealt with that by moving thousands of miles away and the other one married me. Over the years I've tuned out most of the "advice" unless he's gotten really overbearing, then I've just told him that's not how we're doing things. I guess it's OK because he's obviously very fond of me. And as much as he can drive me nuts, I've realized during the last several months that I love him very much.

Flagg

I get along with mine very well. My father in law is very knowledgeable about home repair and modifications and loves working on projects on his spare time so he is very helpful when something comes up that I cannot do or don't know how to. He is coming to help me replace the back sliding glass door with a French door next week!

PillowPants

decides2dream wrote:

Lambchops wrote:

i have no issues... mine are dead


that's good humor right there!! nice work 81

seriously...still makes me laugh.
man, i am a horrible person.... :oops: :?

well i'm right there with you

possibly the funniest thing i read on this place this year


although it's even better because i don't think it was meant as a joke? at least that's my hope

PillowPants

whoprincess wrote:

My father-in-law often exasperates me. He has a strong personality and he can be very intimidating. He was really domineering to his kids growing up and continued to tell them what to do as adults. Two of them dealt with that by moving thousands of miles away and the other one married me. Over the years I've tuned out most of the "advice" unless he's gotten really overbearing, then I've just told him that's not how we're doing things. I guess it's OK because he's obviously very fond of me. And as much as he can drive me nuts, I've realized during the last several months that I love him very much.

so your husband married you to get at his annoying father?

decides2dream

Lambchops wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

Lambchops wrote:

i have no issues... mine are dead


that's good humor right there!! nice work 81

seriously...still makes me laugh.
man, i am a horrible person.... :oops: :?

well i'm right there with you

possibly the funniest thing i read on this place this year


although it's even better because i don't think it was meant as a joke? at least that's my hope

Who Princess

Lambchops wrote:

whoprincess wrote:

My father-in-law often exasperates me. He has a strong personality and he can be very intimidating. He was really domineering to his kids growing up and continued to tell them what to do as adults. Two of them dealt with that by moving thousands of miles away and the other one married me. Over the years I've tuned out most of the "advice" unless he's gotten really overbearing, then I've just told him that's not how we're doing things. I guess it's OK because he's obviously very fond of me. And as much as he can drive me nuts, I've realized during the last several months that I love him very much.

so your husband married you to get at his annoying father?

A joke of mine.

My husband's sister has said that I'm the only one in the family who stands up to my father-in-law. I've told her that it's a lot easier for me, because he's not my father.

He's not a bad person, just a very strong personality. He obviously loves his kids and wants good things for them and sometimes he gets kind of bossy about it. He's also mellowed as he's gotten older.

LloydXmas

Inlaws are still annoying.

LloydXmas

LloydXmas wrote:

Inlaws are still annoying.

A year later and still the same. Can i hire someone to bitch slap mother in law?

LloydXmas

LloydXmas wrote:

LloydXmas wrote:

Inlaws are still annoying.

A year later and still the same. Can i hire someone to bitch slap mother in law?

I'm still taking offers. Came over last night and she was acting like her usual self (a 3 year old)

rick1zoo2

I can no longer complain about mine (although now they would be ex in-laws) - RIP. :silent: