Do you like your IN-LAWS????????

I'm not sure if this counts since we live together but don't plan to get married. We've been together for 5 yrs and its just not a big issue.

I don't know my "mother-in-law". When my SO told her he met me and fell in love, she told him he was going to burn in Hell cause in the church's eyes he is still married. (He's been divorced for about 25 yrs) She told him he cannot date me since that would lead to sex and that would be an affair. So it was OUR choice to never introduce us. She doesn't have the house phone number. She just knows she can only reach him during the week while he is at his city apartment.

Bf's mum calls me her daughter in law, my only problem is that the language barrier is hmm.. i dunno she just lives 2 houses down and its getting annoying.
His real father has only met me 3 times and he is great!! he calls me his daughter in law too
and well his sisters are all younger than me, the youngest is 7 i like them all but they all have so many problems like with their mother and dad and its all BS!
and i just cant be bothered.
My dad didnt accept bf when we first went out.... it took him a year and a bit to accept it. I mean he would never say he is his son unless we got married of course but i dont think even then...
My mother is a great mother in law only when she i off the bottle, which unfortunately she is back on.

My fiancee's mom is really sweet. And I have 3 new big brothers, something I never had. They are all crude, swear, drink beer, play cards, & pick on me about being a Steelers fan. They're great!

well i have to say i very much hate her mom and step-dad!!!!!!!!! I can not will not put up with them. They hate me and I hate them. My girlfriend and i have been together for 3 in a half years and it would be better if they were not in the picture. I will not like them ever. my girlfriend and i broke up for a couple of months because of them. what should i do about this?? because i am to that point to where i want my girlfriend to chose between them or me. thanks

I am among the lucky ones (this time) for in-laws.

I know it sounds bad, but this is my 3rd marriage and my husband's family is the most functional (vs. disfuntional) family I have ever known.
They are genuinely nice people.
I grew up in a major DIS-functional family and have learned from others what a family should/could be.
They (his family) are not perfect, by any means, BUT, they respect each other and do what they can to help each other when needed.
I am lucky to have them and truly appreciate them.

My daughter's wedding is coming very soon and my husbands family is invited, but not mine. My family would cause some sort of chaos that I do not want to risk it. I hate to say it, but it never fails....where there are "_______" there is ALWAYS drama of some sort.
NOT THIS TIME!!!
If they show up uninvited they will be escorted out.

UGH!!!!!!!!!! I hate to say it, but my InLaws and I could have been on that Dr Phil show!!! When the lottery of in-laws came around for me, I picked THE biggest losers, I guess!!! They are THE most selfish, thoughtless, unkind, uncaring people you could EVER meet--EVER. They are also VERY hypocritical, as they go to Church 3 times a week, but are absolutely hateful and downright mean, the rest of the week!!!!!!!!!!!!
They went to Florida for the winter and just knowing they are SOOOOOOOOO far away, makes me want to JUMP FOR JOY!!!!!!!!!
I am NOT a difficult person to get along with, but they are ALWAYS looking to trip me up whenever and however they can (UGH!) I wish they'd stay in Florida year-round! (And I offer apologies and my sympathies to all Floridians, while they have to put up with them being there!!! :rolleyes )

My mil is the sweetest lady in the world and i just love her to pieces
but my fil is an old grouch lol

I'm a bit like Katherine here - my partner and I aren't married yet either - but I'm really lucky to have "in-laws" like them! When we do get around to tying the knot, I'll have THREE mother's in law and a father in-law (his mum and her girlfriend - and his dad and new wife) Nah... they're fantastic people and they've been so patient with me seeing as I don't speak much Danish yet. They've gone out of their way to help me to learn and bit and to translate to English around me so that I can at least follow the thread of what's being said. His mum and her girlfriend are teaching me to cook all sorts of things that I'd never even dreamed I'd be able to do (you're looking at the girl who could poison you with toast) and they've all been really understanding of what I've had to go through to get to where I am today. I coudln't ask for better. They've adopted me, and I've more thanadopted them back. The best bit of it though is that my other half gets on really well with my parents too... moreso my mum than my dad, but he's always been a bit cold and distant. We've all had a problem getting close to dad and it just doesn't work, so you give up after a while. I think the only person I could have a problem with is my dad's new girlfriend... but she's just plain wierd. The term "mutton dressed as lamb" springs to mind and she's incredibly airy-fairy in the head too. She thought that giving me an incense burner for christmas was a good idea with a four year old ASTHMATIC child. OK... kids and fire... and incense and asthma... not exactly the brightest of choices. Of course I'm pleased that she thought to make the effort and that she's trying to get to know us - she made more of an effort than my father, to tell the truth - but I think common sense escaped her for a while there! I dunno... I think maybe a lot of mother-in-law stories are just exaggerated because they never had the time to get to know them well enough first!

I have to say that I am one of the lucky ones............Jerry's parents are great and I couldn't love them anymore if I tried!!

i like all of mine, i get on really well with them all, his mum was a bit funny at first, but thats just her for you, but i get on really well with her now, though she does live the other end of the country

My in-laws are/were fantastic - I couldn't have wished for better. MIL is still alive and is lovely. In fact, even though she is in poor health and 84 she does remarkably well. She was widowed in 2001 and in 2002 we took her for her first trip abroad - as it was something she always wanted to do, but FIL wasn't interested in foreign travel at all.

That's not to say FIL was a bad person - he was just born in a different time and was 90 when he died. He was wonderful too.

They treated me like a daughter from the very first day - even though there is a 15 year age gap between hubby and me, they never made anything of it - unlike some of my own family.

When I went to University in my mid-20s, they collected the children from school and looked after them til I came home - in fact, if I tried to collect them in my vacation time, MIL would get upset that she was missing time with the kids (when I was just worried about putting on them too much). I knew if I needed anything, at any time my in-laws would be there with no questions asked - and they know they can rely on us for the same.

Sorry it's a bit long - but when people are wonderful you just want to share them don't you

From what I have seen and when I met them I like them. They are very polite and thoughtful. Now My Mother.. that is a horror story!

Well I have no father in law, Alans mum got pregnant young and as a result he has never known his father as he bolted, and all they heard was he was a bad apple and in to all sorts of trouble and eventually prison. He knows his name but has no desire to contact him.
His mum is ok she hasn't done anything bad to me...but hardly keeps in contact and hardly raised him and had no real interest in our daughter, so we kinda give up trying and haven't seen her for years...his nan was more his mum ( I classed her more as my mother in law) and I loved her with all my heart, she recently passed as I explained in another post, but she was a wonderful, kind, caring, generous loving person with a great sense of humour, and helped me through some pretty bad times in life, so to have known her and to have felt her love for Alan and I, I'd say I was very honoured and lucky.

Bill's parents are dead but, he has two younger sisters. I get along with both of them and one BIL. The other BIL is a total jerk. I've only met him once and THAT was one time too many! For over 20 years, they've had to restrain Bill, from beating the stuffings out of him.

My parents are crazy about Bill and he would do anything in the world for them. Being Pentecostals, they aren't crazy about the fact that we're not married and living together but, they understand the reason (we can't afford to give up my widow's pension). They observe the dictum "hate the sin, love the sinner".

My mother in law has got to be the worlds craziest person. She tried so hard to destroy our marriage - even got to the point that she was physcially abusing us, and told Jake to divorce me and live with her. OH my god, EWWWWWWWW! Yeah right.

He told her that he had me and Gabe (our son) and that we were his family and thats all he needs.

We have not seen or heard from her ever since and couldnt care less.

She did similar things to her ex husband that she did to us and so it helps to know her from different people - and theres no wonder she has no friends. That woman is pure poison. I have never met anyone who is so hateful and so evil. Just sick!

We have been good without her, we dont need her.

Kellye! Nobody deserves to go through something like that!