What is the most important thing you have learned from an in-law?

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I think the most important thing I have learned from my in-laws is to be able to laugh at myself. My mother-in-law and a cousin-in-law will tell things on themselves that I would never have told on myself...back ten years ago. Through this family I have learned the ability to laugh. Example, my cousin-in-law was pregnant with her first child 11 years ago, she was a single mother-to-be. Like many pregnant women, she suffered from horrible constipation. I think she was six-months along and suddenly needed to relieve herself but her body wasn't being cooperative, her sister-in-law gave her an infant glycerin suppository. Within minutes she thought she was going to get the relief she needed. Not so, she had to work at it. It hurt her so bad she said she was hollaring and moaning and carrying on something terrible, by the time she was able to get relief her mother was at the door yelling from fear wanting to know what was wrong, she busted in the bathroom, pushed her daughter forward on the pot, saw what she had passed, it must have been a dozy cause her mom looked at her and said 'Oh my God, are you okay?' Now this cousin-in-law told this on herself. At first I was stunned, I would have died from embarrassment, but she laughed, I laughed, and suddenly things didn't seem so uptight or something. I really appreciate my in-laws.