your In Laws

[WalksWithChrist]

I like my MIL but she is overly chatty and critical with everyone. I can tolerate her pretty well and the two of us get along great. I can easily counter her with humor and charm, but my wife seems to get more annoyed with her than I do!
Now my FIL...whew. He's a real piece of work. When I'm visiting he says exactly two words to me per day. Good and Morning. That's it! That creeps me out. There's tons more to say about him, but I'd just get upset to type it all up!! Now, he will talk to me if he has a computer problem. I am actually glad he at least talks to me about that even if I do feel kinda used.

 

[Telrunya]

My in laws are awesome!

StepFIL is into racing road course and I pit crew for him as often as I can. Totally cool guy to hang out with.

Adopted FIL is also very cool. We share alot of interests so when ever we get together it's easy to talk to him.

MIL is one of my best friends and the best of the three. I met my wife online. She's a comic book artist and I'm an amature artist and comic book collector. We got to be good friends. Now there is 8 years of age differance between us. When I first met her online she was 18. I didn't talk to her on the phone until she was almost 19 and didn't get interested in being more than just friends until she was 20. Still my MIL was concerned about this 27 year old guy in Texas who is talking to her 19 year old daughter. So one time when I called and Roz wasn't home, her Mom decided to have a talk with me and find out what kinda guy I was. Three hours later we were still on the phone when Roz got home, and having a great conversation. She's been one of my best friends ever since. When she found out Roz and I were getting interested in each other she was estatic.

 

[Pudlmom]

I chose I really don't like them but deal, but that really only applies to my FIL and his wife. My husbands parents divorced when he was a preteen or so and they both moved on and remarried. A year before I met my husband, his mom passed away so I never got to meet her. Ironically, based on what I have heard from my husband and other family members, I think we would have been fast friends.

Anyway, my FIL acts more like a child than I did when I WAS a child! He won't call people, but complains that his children don't call enough. He complains his children don't visit enough, but he never visits us. He's especially irritated when we spend time 'too much' time with the MIL side of the family as they never really liked him when he was married to my MIL.

I moved down there (DH's home state) about 2 months before we got married to try to find a job, yet they didn't even bother coming to meet me. The wedding was in my home town(where we now live)....they went but they didn't bother to meet me until the evening before the wedding....they found it more important to go yardsale shopping the moment they got into town. I later found out that when my husband told my FIL he was getting married, his first reaction was "is she pregnant?" and the day of the wedding, not too long before the wedding, he told my husband "you know you don't have to go through with it, right?". This basically set the tone with my relationship with my FIL and his wife.

My FIL has since said that I am the best thing that ever happened to his son, but that wasn't until about 6 or 7 years into our marriage and everytime he talked to my husband for the first few years of our marriage was to give my husband head trips about some way in which he felt my DH was ruining his life. He wanted to live his dreams though my husband and my husband had different dreams. Now that my husband makes more per year than my FIL ever made, he no longer harps on that stuff....but it took quite a few years of dealing with him playing head games with my husband and my husband telling him off/hanging up the phone on him several times before we got to this point.

So now we don't see him that often and when we do we just put up with it.

My SILs (3 of them)-- I get along with pretty well but I wouldn't say I have bonded greatly with any of them; however, when we all get together we get along pretty well. My one BIL (mothers side, adopted out when MIL was a teen and recently found) is okay (nothing really in common with him) but his wife is quite annoying (passive agressive, manipulative, very needy) and we are glad we live a good 8 or 9 hours away.

I wish we could see my SILs and their families more, but we are all really busy and we all live in different states.

My in-laws are very sweet, generous people. Unfortuntaely, though, my MIL and I don't feel very comfortable around one another. The reason for me is that she considers being slim and attractive very important. This is obvious from the comments made in conversation and emails concerning anyone she might have run into, etc. I have gained a large amount of weight since marrying. Also, we just don't have much to talk about. Her main interests are reading and cleaning house. I work full-time and have to let the house go a lot of the time. She would never say a word to me about any fault she might see, though.

 

[Pudlmom]

Drat. I've got to remember to uncheck "quote message in reply"! Sorry.

 

[JesusFreakWithAGuitar]

Sometimes I love them, other times...well, not so much. MIL reads our mail, listens to my end of phone conversations, then gives FIL a play by play. We're supposed to be moving at least two hours away, over a mountain. So I am praying it works out so they can't visit often (his daddy's a pastor so has very little free time ).

 

[Redguard]

Sometimes I love them, other times...well, not so much. MIL reads our mail, listens to my end of phone conversations, then gives FIL a play by play. We're supposed to be moving at least two hours away, over a mountain. So I am praying it works out so they can't visit often (his daddy's a pastor so has very little free time ).

Hopefully, the mountain will provide a bit of a barrier!

 

[Mrs. Enigma]

My in laws are wonderful/kind/ giving/ hard working/ helpful people.

 

[luvmyhubby]

My inlaws are the most awesome people I know.