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Do your in laws annoy you?

Asked by pleiades (6617points) October 29th, 2013

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Rarebear's avatar

No. My in laws are great.

chyna's avatar

I’m no longer married, but when I was, I loved my in laws. They were very good to me. I still miss them.

JLeslie's avatar

Sometimes.

I can’t make one blanket statement because each one of my inlaws has their own personality. Overall, they are fine. We had a fall out several years back, mostly involving my SIL and myself. It dragged on too long, but things have smoothed over. At this point I am more in line with how my husband sees his family, previously I idealized them and the relationship.

hearkat's avatar

My future in-laws are very kind and easy-going. I enjoy their company.

trailsillustrated's avatar

My inlaws have always hated me. When my ex took my children, they told them I had been killed. Now, I get great pleasure from living in the same neighbourhood and blasting my horn loudly when I see them crossing the street, or saying “hi!!!” and waving crazily whenever I see them at the shops.

muppetish's avatar

They aren’t my in-laws yet (nor do they know that I will be their in-law in a year or so as neither my significant other nor I wears a ring) but we do not get along to say the least.

livelaughlove21's avatar

Well, my mother-in-law is great. She’s completely brainwashed and emotionally dependent on her asshole boyfriend, but I really like her as a person despite my feelings about that. She’s much easier to get along with than my own mother.

I’ve seen my father-in-law only a handful of times over six years. He’s a dead-best dad and that’s all I really know about him, which I’m fine with.

I really like one of my husband’s uncles and his wife. I also like his grandpa, one of his cousins, and I get along fine with both of his sisters.

The rest of them are ignorant rednecks that I can’t stand. I don’t show my disdain for them, but we typically stay far away from them as much as possible. His aunt and older brother are the worst. Worthless people…

Coloma's avatar

My EX in-laws annoyed me yes. haha

They were quite affluent and out of touch with reality.
I did like my FIL but he was also an arrogant ass that just loved telling his ” How I put so and so in their place” stories. He was a big wig real estate guy and just adored himself. Sadly he is now dying of bone cancer, started with prostate cancer 20 years ago. He did have a good sense of humor and adored mine.

My ex MIL was/is very self centered and narcissistic, spoiled, controlling, bossy and pouty when she didn’t get her way.
No wonder I divorced their son, the little asshole apple didn’t fall far from the parental orchard. lol

Seek's avatar

Annoying would be a vast improvement.

Neodarwinian's avatar

Not anymore!

They did two marriages ago though!

jonsblond's avatar

I love my MIL.

LornaLove's avatar

Yes my current ones are rotten. I have decided to be the better person. Sometimes you have to teach people basic social skills.

Smitha's avatar

I have a good relationship with my Mother in law, may be because we don’t stay together.A better relationship with in-laws will only be possible when there’s some space for everyone to be themselves. It is always better to live separately but close by so that you can be there for them or they for you, should the need arise.

filmfann's avatar

No. They are dead.
Not that they are dead because they annoyed me…

Valerie111's avatar

I have a good relationship with them. It probably helps that they live in another state. ;)

YARNLADY's avatar

I have had fairly good relationships with most of my in-laws, with a few exceptions.

Headhurts's avatar

They are wonderful. They treat me like a daughter.

ucme's avatar

My wife’s mother died when she was just a kid & her father six years ago, so no, they don’t/can’t annoy me.

SQUEEKY2's avatar

Half of them do very much,the other half I think the world of and get along with them great.

Mrs Squeeky has 2 brothers and 2 sisters ,that’s why I said half of them the oldest brother and sister annoy the heck out of me and Mrs Squeeky the other 2 are the the best.

KNOWITALL's avatar

My MIL was pretty hard to take the first couple years I was with her ‘baby boy’, but after we both stood up to her, and she saw I was capable of taking care of him appropriately (dinner, cleaning, etc…) she became a really good friend that we enjoy just hanging out with.

CWOTUS's avatar

I’ve been separated for just about 12 years now (a full 12 years next month, actually), but I still see my in-laws from time to time. In fact, when I visit them sometimes in the summer, I stay with my brother-in-law and his wife, who have made me feel completely welcome in their home. From there I visit my mother-in-law and father-in-law, who live in the neighborhood, and another brother-in-law and family, and any number of cousins who happen to be at home. (The whole clan lives within two towns in Michigan.)

When we first separated I had heard reports that my father-in-law wanted to kill me (which is something to treat literally with him, when he says something that forcefully), but since then he has come to realize that I held things together as long as I could, and we’re totally cool now. Maintaining the separation, and keeping her on my health insurance, has helped to preserve the relationships. Living seven states apart hasn’t hurt any, either.

OneBadApple's avatar

My instincts are usually pretty good, and I’ve always felt that my in-laws don’t especially like me, but only tolerate me because my wife might be the best person on the planet. So they tolerate me, and I tolerate them.

Anyway, in a few decades we’ll all be dead and there will be a whole new set of replacement people who must tolerate each other….

Skaggfacemutt's avatar

I have been married three times. My very first mother-in-law was wonderful. She took me under her wing and treated me like a daughter from the very first. My second set of in-laws were cold and mean, but they were just as cold and mean to my husband. My third set of in-laws were very nice to me. A little flakey, but that was no reflection on me.

Just a note, I do miss my first mother-in-law, Beth, but guess what? Her sister’s daughter just married my son (by my second marriage) in July, and the relationship I have with my new daughter-in-law is just like the one I had with Beth. Life really is a circle.

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