My in laws are really pretty good to me. But they’re infuriating. They’re in their 70s now and it seems like everything they do is just to be a pain in the ass. I’m 100% sure it’s not malicious, but at their stage in life, objective analysis is gone, critical thinking is waning, and their brain/mouth filter is malfunctioning.
My wife's parents are divorced, her mother remarried, her father didn't
The father and me get along like we've known each other an entire life time. We are similar in some ways as well. It is one of those father in law, son in law relationships you hope to have from the get go.
The stepfather is a great dude and we've always gotten along but the Mom calls the shots and pretty much tells him how high to jump on a daily basis; So him and me while we get a long great, you can feel the tension in the room because of my relationship with the mother in law. The mother, we used to get along a lot until a few conversations/debates of her trying to pry into my own families life (my wife and children) and over stepping her boundary's on hundreds of things and trying to cause problems between me and my wife (saying bad things about me to her that she sees as red flags) has eventually led to what is now a not great relationship. I used to treat her like a second mother and really tried to show her I looked at her in that way, but to her, I was and always will be an outsider that infiltrated "her" family. [Reply]
FIL was an ok guy till he decided to screw his kids and never said a word and they found out when the dirty fuck died. MIL was a saint and now is in a home with Alzheimer's
Dont trust any family. You get screwed in the end. [Reply]