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Posted by: dan-and-jennifer 8 months, 2 weeks ago

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What if your partner has a decidedly more difficult family than your own? What if, by default, you're expected to engage with people who leave a sour taste in your mouth and for whom conflict is as much a part of their daily lives as your sleepy morning shuffle to the coffee pot is for you?

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    BronxBomber8 months, 2 weeks ago

    It's the ONE reason I don't get married.

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      capnews8 months, 2 weeks ago

      You can get married, just be sure it's to an orphan.

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        AntiNeoCon8 months, 2 weeks ago

        BB - I know this cutie in Queens that you might like...provided you shed that red hat and beard. Her daddy is a professional wrestler. :)

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        blinkers8 months, 2 weeks ago

        Quite right BB. "A man is incomplete until he's married. Then he's finished"

        (Mae West or Zsa Zsa Gabor, I forget which)

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        tonks218 months, 2 weeks ago

        In-laws aren't that bad. it's my side of the family that people worry about!!! ;D

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          jughead7898 months, 2 weeks ago

          surviving is not an option

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            netblogs8 months, 2 weeks ago

            here is another way, join the marines, if you'll make it there you'll survive with your mother in law... perhaps.

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              KYRed8 months, 2 weeks ago

              My wife and I have decided that both our families are equally bad, so we keep away from all of them.

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                mbkijb8 months, 2 weeks ago

                My family is awesome. It is his that I stay far, far away from.... hell, I often stay far, far away from him as well.

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                  canadianrancher578 months, 2 weeks ago

                  At our house Christmas is not the season of giving it is the season of taking. When we lived in a mobile home it was not bad but when we moved into our house it seems we are to host Christmas every year. My inlaws are nice enough people except they are the most light fingered people I have ever run into. They arrive with a small parcel of presents and leave with a large box of everything. One year on Boxing day I wanted a turkey sandwich and we relized they took the left over turkey home with them. I told the wife that some year we are going to install security cameras so the day will not be so stressfull.

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                    not2needy8 months, 2 weeks ago

                    I agree that some in-laws can be a pain!

                    I tried to make my daughters-in-law the daughters i never had, and i had a great relationship with one of them. The other two MADE our relationship about my being their mother in law, until it was to their advantage to try to be friendly.

                    I have given 2 bedroom suites, 4 living room suites, a dining room suite, all the pots and pans, sheets, comforters, towels, clothes and just about everything else it takes to keep house. As long as i am giving it's all good, when i'm not giving, i'm the mother in law!

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