You're SO's Parents (aka in-laws)

kb455

I like them some of the time. They can be nice but they can also be very passive-aggressive and even down-right mean to the daughter-in-laws. For a long time, I did NOT like them at all and they knew it. I've learned over the years to just accept that I won't have a super-close relationship with them but i will do my best to keep it civil and as pleasant as possible. And lately, my relationship with them has been better but I think its only because they REALLY hate a different daughter-in-law so they see me as the lesser of 2 evils. lol.

Goldenbast

I despise my husband mother and step-father...sent my two daughters down there for the summer and since coming back neither want to even TALK to them...tells ya something. And they have consistently ignored my daughter (not my husband's child) even though he has accepted her from the moment we met.

Now I adore my husband's father and step-mother, they are great.

wrevhn

I get the feeling that not seeing your in-laws regularly helps the getting along part. lol.

brittanyjeanxo

I like my fiance's parents. Well, I love his mother. She likes me :P Sometimes she aggravates the piss out of me, but what mother doesn't?

ironanimal

I am not my in-laws.

SofaKingRad

I love them. They drive me nucking futs sometimes though.

taso42

love! they're cool!

PeaceLoveVeggies

My boyfriend's father passed away on Halloween last year [2011], and his mom is a b-itch, who left her son when he was 16 years old to care for an elderly man with Alzheimer's and a rebellious 12 year old boy.

dakitten2

My partner's are both deceased. They were abusive alcoholics and didnt approve of her being gay, so chances are they would have never liked me. Now my parents treat my partner like another daughter and one of my other sisters is also gay and they treat her partner the same way. They know we love each other and are happy. As long as we are happy, they are happy. So now instead of 4 daughters, they say they have 6.

Mama_CAEI

Mine live 14 hours away. We get along famously. :laugh: Seriously, though, even if we lived closer, I think we'd get along just fine.

Rae6503

I really like my mother-in-law and step-father-in-law. My own mother had an accident before we had children and was severely brain damaged and in a home. My mother-in-law came and stayed with use after the birth of each of our children to help out, just like she did with her own daughters.

Step-mother-in-law and father-in-law, not so much. After we had 2 girls they asked if we could have my husband tested to see if he could have a son. They had 15 other grandchildren, 8 of which were boys, but no boys bearing the family name. When we finally had the boy I REALLY wanted Jeremy to lie to them and them that it was another girl. They came and saw the boy as a new baby but never did for the girls.

awoodwaring

I banned my mil from my property. That woman did not know/respect anyone's boundaries.

kp1439

Love them ... amazing folks ...

kyrstensmom

My in-laws are amazing people. I'm lucky to have them, and they adore me, so that doesn't hurt! I can't wait until they move back to Oregon this coming summer!

Edit: My SIL is one of my best friends and my BIL is a good guy, too. I got really lucky in the in-law department.

rfechter

My husband and I haven't spoken to his parents in over ten years. We just did not get along.

JennieAL

Hmmm, let's just say that I'm open to them growing on me. Wondering if/when that might happen. I was married in November and so I haven't known mine for very long now. I have been around them a handful of times.

Five years ago, I'd have a nice tidy little smartass answer... but, I'm trying to let myself grow up a bit. And this is one of those questions I might need to sleep on... like, for a while

stablesong

My boyfriend's biological father is a total weirdo. I know he used to be a heavy drug user. I have never met him because he and my boyfriend are kind of estranged and he lives away, but he always used to post really nonsensical things on my Facebook. He went on a (nonsensical, crazy) homophobic rant on one of my statuses about gay marriage, so that was the final straw and I deleted him. Boyfriend's mother is always very nice to me the few times I have met her. I've never met his step-dad but from what I can tell he's a jerk.

Luckily he and my dad are kind of buds and he and my mom get along, too.

KimbersNewLife

. And to top things off she lives across the street....YAY for me:)

See quote above from other poster...The above is why we bought our first house- need I say more? It was so bad we bought a whole house to get away...we were living in the same apt complex...our marriage almost ended, it was that bad, it was move or get divorced/ Some people just are not happy and have to share that with everyone. OK I am not saying anymore HA

MellyPfromVT

My father-in-law passed away a week ago and, while he wasn't perfect, he was a decent man and I will miss him.

rachaelh84

I love my hubs parents, even though I think that they spoil and enable their adult children entirely too much. I guess I could say I am slowly weaning my hubs away from them

That. Only I don't think I have a prayer of weaning, because they live 20 mins away.

MLAnniRoc

My fiance's parents are great, most of the time.
I can have really long conversations with his Dad, but his Mom has said some unsavory things about me in the past because we don't see eye-to-eye about marriage and religion. She's afraid for my soul, and I'm not. Haha. To put it bluntly.
But otherwise, we all get along.

thelovelyLIZ

They're very nice people. A little small town with the typical small town conservative mindset, but they're nice people. They've been really accepting and nice to me as well, so I'm thankful for that.

MissFit0101

I love my in laws, they are such amazing people.

cathynicolette

I love my mother-in-law. I'm more like a third daughter than a DIL. I wish I could have met my FIL but he passed away several years before I met DH.

karenwill2

I love my in-laws. I do find my brother in law to be the little brother I never wanted. He is annoying but I still love him.

bethvandenberg

Let's just say that we live 1900 miles away from them for a reason. That reason isn't that I don't like snow.

Jessica0982

I have never met my husband's mother, she passed away 2 weeks before I met him. Crazy thing is...she told him he was going to marry a girl with blond hair and blue eyes. He told her that wasn't his type. And we met 2 weeks later....

I've never met his bio father. He only came back into his life about 2-3 years ago.

His stepdad - I love him! He's a sweetheart. We just don't see him all that often.

My SIL is..well...she keeps life interesting to say the least.

xHelloQuincyx

my boyfriends parents are seperated and remaried. i cant say i like any of them. his dad has been in prison and is just a generaly messed up guy. his mom is very... to the point. his step dad seriously IGNORES him every time he is in the room. they have some long time "agreement" based on an argument they had years ago to never talk again i guess... i feel like when i talk they dont listen to me at all. its mindless stranger small talk. we have been together over 3 years.....

my parents would litteraly do anything for my boyfriend. they talk they fly planes together they buy each other thoughtfull xmas presents. we go out to eat and end up staying for 4 hrs talking about the past and stories and such. they got a car loan for us and helped us move 100 miles away (over 30 driving trips and a uhaul rental). for xmas my mom bought him a videogame he wanted so badly, and he didnt even tell her he wanted it! i got socks from his family that dont fit.. for the 3rd year in a row. its hugs good bye without any awkward feeling. i cant even have one conversation with my boyfriends family without feeling left out of some loop. thankfully he has two amazing sisters. and they treat me like family. this makes family events a lot less awkward haha. i even lived with him and his sister for over half a year. gotta say, someone picked up those apples and through them miles away from the tree.

Artemis726

I love my inlaws. They are completely 'real' and down to earth, fun to hang with, and they are amazing grandparents. My husband jokes that they like me better than they like him. LOL! The only problem is that my MIL 'jokes' about us having more kids, and that's just....NO!

SugarNtheRaw

Never me the FIL, but the MIL and I get along 5/7 days a week. Shes' nice but due to being on meds for her heart and back she's kookier than she used to be sometimes, and sometimes that can be a very arduous thing to deal with.