What are your in-laws like?

[bif]

I've got the best in the world. Liberal Dems who were dissapointed that they weren't on the Communist watch list.But my immediate family? Fuggedaboutit!

[kayleybeth]

1. I love my inlaws

and we get along great, as long as we don't discuss politics, which we rarely ever do. They are big time conservatives. DH still hasn't told them he changed his registration to Democrat this past spring. I think he's afraid they'll disown him, LOL! They wouldn't really, but I'm sure they'd be disappointed that he's not "canceling out" my vote.

My immediate family is the same way.

[stanwyck]

2. Opposite for me

My side of the family is predominantly liberal. However, on my husband's side....Rush-listening bigots. Though, important exception, not my father or mother in law. Very liberal. But my husband's four brothers and sister and their spouses....yikes! off the chart. I refuse to back down when we visit them. The saddest part is that they love to rile me but since they don't read newspapers or get information from any source other than hate radio, they have no idea what is going on in this country. I talk over their heads. They don't even know who Karl Rove is. Wolfowitz and Perle...the neocons and the PNAC? Never heard of any of that. Didn't even know about Novak outing a CIA agent (Virginia Plame) from a White House source. They just spout whatever Rush said. And bash Clinton. It's bash Clinton 24-7. I'm about ready to just call it quits on having anything to do with them.

[Cleita]

3. Mine are six thousand miles away, the ones that are still alive.

That's the best kind.

[neebob]

6. Former in-laws are good, too. nt

[BurtWorm]

4. A radical Peace Now activist and a Communist.

They were divorced when my wife was a wee, wee infant. I love me mother-in-law, who's now 88, and me late father-in-law, who was 92 when he died two years ago.

[BrotherBuzz]

5. Mother-in-law

never was on the Communist watch list either. But she lives on Communist hill in a suburb of Boston, and that should count for something. 88 years young, and still the activist. Raised all her children right left.

[bif]

8. It's nice to have like-minded in-laws.

Methinks. Makes family get togethers a lot easier to handle.

[politicat]

7. I've never met my father-in-law. My MIL is... different.

She's a RINO, socially liberal, but once, upon receiving a Tshirt that said "Lobotomies for Republicans: It's not just a good idea, it's the Law!", admitted that she IS a Republican. (Yes, it is a funny shirt.)

She's a 2nd grade special ed teacher and an artist. She's spent a lot of time around hyper 7 year olds.... it shows. (I've met the woman once.)

I love his sister and her husband - they're totally great.

His father is not in the picture - Mr. Politicat cut him out of his life after 1) an Amway pitch, 2) his father divorced his stepmother and remarried the woman who had been his stepdaughter (ewwww.... but Kentucky can be that way....) and 3)a forcible Southern Baptist baptism.....

Things I could never blame him for....

Politicat (whose mother is a bit odd, but okay and whose father is a raging looney, but not in the picture and therefore, okay. But there's a reason we live 1500 miles from any of them....)

[alwynsw]

13. How narrow and callous you are!

All of the WORLD can be that way. Shame on you!

Thanks for perpetuating one of the myths about "flyover" country. We appreciate it.

I suppose that your next statement will be that all Irish are drunks. We who are of Irish descent appreciate that one, too. Or are you going to pick on some other geographic, ethnic, religious, racial, national, or other group or class of folks who are handy for a throw away insult?

[Ernesto]

9. bush "better than Clinton"

That is a direct quote from my air head church lady mother n law. As you can imagine, we're not very "tight".

[Nikia]

10. Old and Conservative

His parents are closer to my grandparents age than my parents age. His dad is generally concservative and really liked Reagan. His father has always been a lawyer and came from an upper class family. His mother was a teacher but was never much into intellectualism and looks down on it in me. She has always done everything around the house for her husband and wonders why I don't do the same even though I work more hours and make more money than my husband. She shops a lot, spending roughly what my husband and I make. She came from a working class family, but lived with her parents until she married rent free and has always been into shoes and fashion since then. She thinks that I am low class because I don't care about that. I think that she is low class because she cares nothing about anything cultural or intellectual, just gossip and shopping.
I don't mean any offense to working class DUers. I am just criticizing her hypocritical snobbery.

[Padraig18]

11. My 'in-laws'

They're wonderful people. Tony's mom is a Cuban refugee, and his dad is from Mexico. Life at their house is many things--- primarily busy--- but it is seldom dull. My mother-in-law has a distinct sense of whimsy, and laughs nad cracks jokes and tells cute stories all the time, and my father-in-law, while quieter, is a genuinely NICE man who freely dispenses both hugs and advice on anything and everything. Tony's brothers and sisters are great, too, and they all accept us for what we are--- a couple. :)

[alwynsw]

12. One is very dry

He was cremated last year. The other is a veggie - alcohol assisted stroke (CVA for you med types out there). Given their actions and reactions before the abovementioned events, the current condition is an improvement.

G'head. Call me mean. It's the truth.

[amazona]

14. psychotics

I think his dad is delusional, and his mom goes along with it because she thinks she has to. We haven't spoken since '83 and I don't feel I'm missing a thing.

[Amomaly]

15. so alwynsw

The MIL was Irish, then?

[Mountainman]

16. My in-laws are pretty liberal

I met them, my wife and sister-in-law all at a nudist park 19 years ago.

My wife to be and I met that day and she invited me to her folks pot-luck picnic where I met the in-laws. My mother-in-law was president of the local NOW chapter.

I also have another sister-in-law who is a lesbian so I married into a not conservative group!