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In Laws question


mummy2girls wrote: I have wondering if you guys have a close relationship to your inlaws or if its bad? MIL, FIL, SIL, Etc? Why? well marcus's family are awesome and me and his mom get along WONDERFUL!!!!!! We email each other on a daily basis and everything!

you?

Calimama replied: We don't talk to my inlaws anymore by DH's doing. Their true colors came out during this deployment.. and they weren't that pretty. rolleyes.gif

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I have had a touchy relationship with my inlaws (and by inlaws i mean MIL - my FIL's usually pretty decent) in the past. We get along, we're civil, but I don't like her, and she tries to hard.

Dh gets along fine with my parents, considering my dad's an alcoholic pot head who we see a couple tiems a year only, and we haven't reallyseen my mom since last February, when she moved in with her bf. We've seen her 4 times this past year - dinner at her place in july, christmas, easter, and dh saw her on his birthday last week.

stella6979 replied: I love my In-Laws! They are all great. MIL can be a little overbearing at times, but it's kind of nice seeing how I never really had Parents like that. I've never gotten along with my Dad so it doesn't surprise me that he doesn't like DH, but we don't care. My Mom and Jeff get along great though. thumb.gif

MoonMama replied: Other then one cousin and an aunt....We all have no contact at all with DH's family! sleep.gif

Calimama replied:
Hey that's the same for us. His aunt (who is also his Godmother) and his cousin whose stationed out here.

ZandersMama replied: can't stand any of them, there is one aunt that sometimes comes to see the kids.

mckayleesmom replied: We all get along great.

AlexsPajamaMama replied: I have been with dh for 6yrs and I have maybe seen his oldest sister 6times
His two brothers I get along fine with
And I get along pretty well with his younger sister
His step dad I dont mind
His Mom...well I tolerate her until she comes out with side was comments about me being a sahm. She tries to buy my love and frankly I dont buy into it, I accept the gifts but it doesnt make me like her anymore than I already did

coasterqueen replied: My MIL - love her to death but in that same respect some of the things she does in regards to my girls drives me batty. I'm learning to let that go, though, and realize she still has my girls best interests at heart. I love how I can talk to her about organics/healthier options in life, but in that same token when she tells me I'm doing something wrong (with anything) I don't get upset. I just tell her like it is. Well - Dh tells her like it is and we go on from there. tongue.gif

My FIL - I honestly love him, too, although there has always been a disconnection between us. Not sure why, probably moreso on my part than his, maybe?

My step-MIL - I'm growing to like her. For the most part she's great, but she has this kind of bitty personality that you just have to understand and learn how to take it (not the wrong way). Dh does a better job at this than I do, but I'm learning...slowly. tongue.gif

SIL/BIL - I love my SIL as well. She's also our web designer for work so I have to work with via email a lot. She annoys me, as well as the rest of the inlaws, but for the most part we are pretty close.

Overall I really am grateful for the hand I was dealt in the sense of inlaws. It could be much much worse and that's how I tend to think of it. happy.gif

lovemy2 replied: Mine are all great - they live an hour and a half away laugh.gif

Boys r us replied: I lucked out in the in-law department!! Mine are fabulous! In fact, they just put a contract on some land to build a house right down the road from us...all of my friends are like.."ughhh just what you want, I'm sure" but actually, I really can't wait! We always have cookouts together and go on trips together and they get along great with my parents too...which makes it easy on us b/c often we will all do things together with Rick's parents and mine and not have to pick or choose who we are going to spend our sunday with etc... My MIL is always willing to watch the kids and she's so good with them, she doesn't stick her nose in our business at all...though she did get upset when Rick got the Big "V"..she wanted more babies from us. But that's the only time she's really had any kind of a say in our affairs, other than being proud of how well we've done. My FIL is quite possibly the cutest little man ever..haa..not looks wise, I'm talking just his personality. His family came to this country when he was 15 yrs old and he still has the cutest little accent ever and he's just like this loveable teddy bear..he's always telling these funny stories making everyone laugh and his facial expressions are just so over the top. Ohhh really, I love them to death! My SIL..she's growing on me! LOL I've always LIKED her, but she's always just had a lot of growing up to do, so we didn't have much in common..but now she's married and pregnant and though she lives 3 hours away now, we talk more than we ever have in the past! I really couldn't have asked for a better set of inlaws!!

My3LilMonkeys replied: I get along with my ILs very well and see/talk to all of them at least once a week, usually more.

DH and my parents get along okay, but we don't see/talk to them as much.

My younger sister none of us sees except for holidays.

My older sister and her BF we get along with pretty well and usually do stuff with every couple of weeks.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: I get along great with my IL's. We lived with them for 4 months when waiting for our house to sell we moved here and could easily do it again. (well....except teh mattress on the floor part)

BIL good, one SIL and her dh fine (not crazy about teh way she treats her son but she doesn;t have custody so that's good) other SIL I have no contact with at all....big drug addict looser and she will occasionally send semi nude pics to dh that he finds super disturbing.

he gets along great with everyone from my family...but in some ways we are a lot closer to his than mine.

luvmykids replied: Overall, pretty great. My FIL and his wife are like another set of parents to me and they tell people I'm their daughter and that DH is the son in law rolling_smile.gif Things got ugly with FIL for awhile because he was working for us but that is over with. His wife is one of my dearest friends and I adore her, we talk at least a dozen times a day.

MIL is the hardest one for me, she's a little meddlesome and very insecure so she is always trying to brag and show off and can be a snob, but overall she is really good to me and we have a solid relationship. Her DH is great, he's been around a long time and for "step grandparents" both he and FIL's wife adore the kids like they're their own....which really they are, we don't draw those distinctions.

I'm very blessed to have in laws who love to watch the kids for long periods of time, FIL had them for 10 days last summer and MIL has stayed at our house with the kids for a week or more every summer thumb.gif


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