Inlaws : Love 'em or Hate 'em !

Started by P.C., Jul 10 08 01:23

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P.C.

Does anyone here NOT get along well with their inlaws ?

  OR....do you have inlaws that you like better than your own family ?!?
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Sportsdude

I get along with everyone. My mom likes Oma more then her own family. Grandma lives with us, so my life growing up everyone liked each other. Not so with my uncle and his ex wife. Pyscho-b*** from Iowa who locked Oma in a closet for a day.
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

TehBorken

 P.C. wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Does anyone here NOT get along well with their inlaws ? [/div]  [div style="font-style: italic;"]OR....do you have inlaws that you like better than your own family ?!?[/div]
My previous inlaws were just horrible, horrible people...racist, backwoods goobers who hate anyone who "ain't white". They suck and I hope they all die soon. They would have been right at home in Mississippi, Georgia, or Alabama during the height of segregation. They still refer to African Americans as "colored". They disliked me because a) I read "too many" books, and b) because I was "cityfied". In short, they're totally horrid a**holes.

But my current inlaws are great and I love 'em to pieces. I say "inlaws", but Sakha's father passed away a few months ago so only Mom is left. Sakha's mom and dad welcomed me into the family and made me feel right at home. They're the salt of the Earth, and my previous inlaws aren't fit to kiss their toes.  
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

P.C.

  Nice to hear you hit the lottery on that one TB.  Your inlaws sound like wonderful people (so sorry for loss of Sakha's dad )  Your ex inlaws sound like a waste of space.....lol.....I guess you were due some good ones after THAT.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lise

Question to SD: Don't you have to be MARRIED in order to get in-laws??

  Yes. I get along with both my parents-in-law. We didn't get along in the beginning due to cultural differences and the fact I stole mama's little boy. But now we're good, we understand each other and they've become my parents. I don't think we would have survived without their help raising our children.
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Bill Cosby.

Lil Me

I tolerate my in-laws- they're nice enough, but they have ignorance issues and hygiene issues (I've previously discussed the subject of their cutting meat on the table saw...).

  Conversation with them gets old REALLY fast.  They like to tell anecdotes about people they know...they've been telling the same stories for years.  Mr LM and I drink heavily when the in-laws come to visit.    
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P.C.

 I tolerate my in-laws- they're nice enough, but they have ignorance issues and hygiene issues (I've previously discussed the subject of their cutting meat on the table saw...).



Conversation with them gets old REALLY fast.  They like to tell anecdotes about people they know...they've been telling the same stories for years.  [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff9f40"]Mr LM and I drink heavily when the in-laws come to visit.[/FONT]

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  Too funny Lil Me !  [/DIV]
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Sportsdude

 Lise wrote:
Question to SD: Don't you have to be MARRIED in order to get in-laws??
 
Yes. I get along with both my parents-in-law. We didn't get along in the beginning due to cultural differences and the fact I stole mama's little boy. But now we're good, we understand each other and they've become my parents. I don't think we would have survived without their help raising our children.

True, so I'll go by the parents of the girls I know. They love me. I get along with everybody, when I'd go over to a girl's house when I was younger to hang out with my friends, the girls parents ended up thinking the world of me. Usually the parents liked me more then my actual friends.

But I just remember how my aunt treated my Oma and it was borderline criminal. 10 years ago, she locked Oma in a closet for 8hrs, god, you don't do that to Oma. I hate that woman (my aunt). She always belittled my grandparents with the way they talked and that they came from poverty. She'd make fun of them, wouldn't eat their food, called everyone stupid, called my grandparents idiots and she couldn't stay at their house when my aunt and uncle's family were visiting. Then it went political, she always hated the whole family's left wing view of the world. She's from a rich family in Iowa, we are working class german-hungarian immigrants.
 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

TehBorken

 P.C. wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"][em] [font style="background-color: rgb(255, 159, 64);"]Mr LM and I drink heavily when the in-laws come to visit.[/font][/em][/div]  [div]Too funny Lil Me !

[/div]I'll second that: too damn funny! I LOL'd.
 
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

TehBorken

 When inlaws are outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws.
 
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Lise @ Work

Isn't there a show on the Life Network about In-Laws, Out-Laws or something like that. Funny to watch the mediator act like a sherrif.

  SD. Point I'm trying to get across is that you have in-laws ONLY if you're married. The thread is asking about in-laws NOT ppl whom you get along with. Or anyone for that matter.

P.C.

Thanks Lise.....that WAS kinda the gist of the thread.

  Parents of girls you know are not your in-laws (nor is your aunt or your Oma)  It's nice that they love you, but is not relevant.  (there IS, however, a strong possibility that this love could change should you become an in-law) That has a tendency to happen....lol  The dynamics of 'in-lawhood' are worlds apart from immediate family.    
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Van

^ maybe they are just called friendlaws?
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P.C.

[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c008.gif" border=0]   I suppose it's possible.  On the other hand, it just might be redundant.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c028.gif" border=0]
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Russ

I dont have any inlaws yet.. but soon. And Starfishie and myself seem to get along pretty good with both sets.
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