In-laws

in_hiding79

My in laws are really sweet and quiet.....my family on the other hand are GREEK and we are just loud!!! My mom is very good at giving her opinions!! lol

small town beck

GS, you ARE such a bitch

Indian Summer

small town beck wrote:

GS, you ARE such a bitch

Maybe I needed to add the smiley face when I said it??? I got jumped.

in_hiding79

Indian Summer wrote:

Maybe I needed to add the smiley face when I said it??? I got jumped.

Ummm, you said it rude and it was inappropriate!

small town beck

Indian Summer wrote:

Maybe I needed to add the smiley face when I said it??? I got jumped.

Sure I mean you could try but people seem to like me so that could be the difference

Brain of J.Lo

My in-laws are really sweet. They are absolutely driving m husband nuts, because we live so close...but I love them. They definitely have qualities that get on my nerves (they can be so mean to each other!) but they treat me like the daughter they never had, and they are wonderful to my little girl.

Brain of J.Lo

GraySaturday wrote:

What is with in-laws? I swear I can't win!

My husband is on the phone with his mother and I can make out the convo, since I hear his end, and she has now asked:

How the new guy at Josh's work was
How the cats are
How work is going for Josh
How selling his car is going
What car Josh would want next
HOW IS OUR NEW MATTRESS...

and then, how is Sarah??

In that order.. I'm so glad I fit right in after the mattress.. When he got to the mattress, I yelled out "THE MATTRESS IS GREAT, I'M FINE THANKS"

Ughhh!

That would hurt my feelings, too. :( I'm sorry she was so inconsiderate.

justjoshingu

Brain of J.Lo wrote:

My in-laws are really sweet. They are absolutely driving m husband nuts, because we live so close...but I love them. They definitely have qualities that get on my nerves (they can be so mean to each other!) but they treat me like the daughter they never had, and they are wonderful to my little girl.

thats important that they treat your little girl wonderful.

gobrowns19

GraySaturday wrote:

What is with in-laws? I swear I can't win!

My husband is on the phone with his mother and I can make out the convo, since I hear his end, and she has now asked:

How the new guy at Josh's work was
How the cats are
How work is going for Josh
How selling his car is going
What car Josh would want next
HOW IS OUR NEW MATTRESS...

and then, how is Sarah??

In that order.. I'm so glad I fit right in after the mattress.. When he got to the mattress, I yelled out "THE MATTRESS IS GREAT, I'M FINE THANKS"

Ughhh!

I try to look at things half full. Maybe she was saving the best for last?

[Best Peter Griffin voice] Think about that.

justjoshingu

gobrowns19 wrote:

I try to look at things half full. Maybe she was saving the best for last?

[Best Peter Griffin voice] Think about that.

thats a good point. build up the back story. a little intro. some drama. and then WHAM the good stuff. the meat and patatoes. the big reveal...
How IS SARAH!!!!??? very m night shyamalan.

dunkman

Indian Summer wrote:

You asked "What's with In-laws"....and based on the information you posted, I concluded that you are a bitch. Provide more information if you feel like that is inaccurate.

woah.... steady big man.. do you normally draw such derogatory conclusions after a 18 second snippet into someones private life?

my in-laws are ok.. i get on well with them but going for a meal with them can send me into a coma... its one of the most stressful things i have ever done.. i hate it.

MattCameronKicksButt

My son's only a year old and I've already decided no woman is going to be good enough for him.

londonwpr

Why does it always seem like the wife and mother-in-law never get along? I've seen it many times and I never understood that...

Thankfully, my fiance gets along very well with my whole family (especially my Mom). And, I get along great with her family...so we're very blessed we both have fairly normal families and everyone gets along!

GraySaturday

correction: I get along with his whole family just fine. They didnt even come to the wedding because they wanted us to have it in Cancun and when they didnt get their way, the refused to come! But I got over that and I get along just fine with them.

I just thought it was funny that she is scrambling for things to ask for and asks about our bed! Haha. I meant no harm. Their great people and I know they like me and likewise.

rival.

Indian Summer wrote:

No wonder you rank low on your mother in-law's list, you act like a jerk by blurting out things while she's on the phone with her son. Give respect to get it.

yeah, screaming things out like that when they are still on the line isn't the best decision...

mookie9999

GraySaturday wrote:

They didnt even come to the wedding because they wanted us to have it in Cancun and when they didnt get their way, the refused to come!

HOLY CRAP! :eek: That's just not cool. It's very big of you to forgive them.

decides2dream

londonwpr wrote:

Thankfully, my fiance gets along very well with my whole family (especially my Mom). And, I get along great with her family...so we're very blessed we both have fairly normal families and everyone gets along!

that's awesome! truly. helps that both families are fairly *normal* though, absolutely.


i THINK i would've gotten on just fine with my mom-in-law, she seemed quite sweet. sadly for my husband, she died about 3 months after we started dating. my dad died 4 months before our wedding. :( so sad for us both. happy my dad knew i was marrying, and he really liked my husband, so that's something. my husband LOVES my mom, and my sister....well one of em, anyway. the other don't see too much so whatever. now his family..:rolleyes: even HE doesn't like/care for too much. except his brother, but even him...he does see him more for the person he is, which is good. his father is NOT a nice person, definitely not a good dad, ut sure...we do what we can for him. eh well. i do feel lucky that we're so tight/good with my own family and while hubby's is a bit wako, HE doesn't want too much involvement, so it balances out ok. blending/balancing families is never easy, so just have to always try and make the best of it!

Steve Dunne

hey at least your 'mil' doesn't call you 'mattressback'.

worlie

I really wish it wasnt true, but I can top you all.
Been married almost 8 years, dating for 4 before that.
By the way, I am normal, have a good job, we didnt live together before we got married, we both finished our degrees before marraige..pretty storybook.

Just a few examples:

When he told his parents he was going to ask me to marry him, his father financially cut him off and did not speak to him for three months. Told him he needed to date other people before he made that decision...we had been dating seriously for two years.

When I tried to include the nutbags in the wedding plans, the mom refused to cut her guest list even though the venue wouldnt fit all the people, and insisted on inviting people she hadnt heard from in 5 years.

His father told us to "wait two more years and pay for the wedding yourself"
Intrestingly, they only paid for the things traditional for them to pay for, and I had to have the place send them a bill. They never offered one dime for the wedding, which 85 percent of the guests belonged to them. 50 percent of the budget was provided by me and hubby, the rest by my parents.

She told an aunt in front of my mother that having her son get married what like "having him die". We live across town.

I had a fever during a family event and was sort of unsociable, and his father acosted me during the event, screaming at me about how he didnt understand why I didnt like them. (!!)

so many other things...want more recent?

husband and i wear the same size shirt, but I am somewhat touchy about my weight. For Christmas, they got him a smaller size shirt than me. matching shirts (which we will never wear). Made a big deal about his "probably being too big".

Moral: if you have kids, NEVER let their spouses or potential spouses know they arent welcome, or that you feel they arent good enough. Figure out a way to love them for who they are. They probably think you arent good enough, either.

libragirl

My sister's inlaws are doozies..she tells us some whacky stuff. It doesn't help that my brother-in-law is a momma's boy :rolleyes:

I'm not even married yet and my fiance's family has been causing all types of problems in our relationship.