In-Laws or Out-Laws?

You got that right, OUT LAWS because I could care less if we ever seen them again. While I do get along with some of them, the majority of them I could do without. My mother in law is really a piece of work, for some reason she has it out for my husband and thats her own son. She doesnt have a clue ever how old my kids are. My brother in alw and his wife think they are so rich and better then everyone else. (they forget they have 5 kids and he only works) You do the math! Nobody in my husbands family is reliable except for his grandmother who is 74 and she will always be a part of my childrens life.

I get alone pretty well with my inlaws - they have a few things that bother me but nothing too major. At the age of 40 my MIL has decided she wants to be goth/punk - so we have the black clothes, black hair with streaks & piercings (she missed her teens coz she had kids so she's wanting to go back there). It only bugs me coz i don't really want my daughter to come to me asking to be like her Nana! I know this is likely to happen coz 1 of my nieces has already done this - saying she wanted her tongue pierces coz Nana & Aunty had it done! They don't offer much in the way of advise coz i think they gave it all away with their first Grandchild & it didn't go down well so now they just say nothing! I was worried they'd drop in for visits every day or so, as they come through the town we live in twice a day to get to work & back, but they have surprised me with only visiting once or twice a month - which i can handle. Otherwise, apart from the weirdness, they're nice enough & as far as i can tell, they seem to like me too so i guess that's a good thing.

I get along great with my mother in law we talk all of the time and when she comes to visit we hang out and do things together. If I need advice on anything not just the children I never hesitate to call her. Sometimes she may know something more then my mother or vice versa. It depends on the situation.

I get along better with mine now that I do not live with them. My father-in-law gives me all sorts of advice on the kids & everything. I usually just ignore what he says. We have different ideas on how things should be done. My in-laws like me as far as I know. They are always very good to my kids. I would not have it any other way. They live 3 streets away & the older girls are at their house right now.

in my first marriage my mother in law had passed away bfore i knew her. so for 30 years i had no idea about a mother in law,but now with my 2nd husband wow that woman just wont let go she is the type that wants to keep her babies all to her self and she resents anyone coming into the picture, she becomes angry because my husband wont do as she wants,and she just wont give it up, but oh well she is his mother and i respect that, with that said we lived in vermont in an apt over her garage,i am from ohio and one day i told her i am going home, he can stay or go, well we are happly living in ohio in our own home now and she is still fumeing,guess i just cant get the mother in law thing

Lets start with the first christmas. My wife and I had only been going out for a month before, and got invite to xmas lunch. After I was sitting at the table thinking that once the dishes were started, I would grab a teatowel to dry them, it would put me in the 'good books'. Mother in law looked at me and said "Don't just sit on your bum and expect us to clean up after you. Everyone does stuff around here". We also were expected to visit every weekend, on the day that was convenient for them.Her favourite pastime was paying other people out. When our son was born, about a week after she wrapped up a doll in my sons blanket and made out it was him, then dropped it while bringing it to me. Real funny. NOT!This story could go on for another 5 pages, but in short we had a big blowup about where we chose to send our son to pre school, and are no longer seeing them. We've had several nasty letters though.