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Hi Bees,
Well, I feel very blessed to marry into such a wonderful family. Kooky, at times, but a great family nevertheless. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my fiance's mom, dad, brother and sister. I already call his parents Mom and Dad. My fiance constantly tells me how much his family loves me more than him!! Everyone has also made comments about how they didn't particularly love his ex. HA :) I have had so/so experiences in the past (particularly where my ex-bf's were mamas boys and no one would ever be good enough for them). Coming from that place, I feel so fortunate that my new in-laws will be people I actually enjoy spending time with and people who love and accept me, exactly how I am!!!
I'm just wondering how normal or abnormal this is, since I keep reading about horrible in-laws. So....How do you feel about your in laws?
I absolutely LOVE my in-laws too! They're the greatest. His mom and dad already treat me as one of the family. They were both ecstatic when we got engaged. I am super close to his sisters. We all spend a lot of time together. I feel fortunate to be marrying into such an amazing family!
I love my FMIL and FFIL. His mom is the sweetest thing and has always been so good to me. I didn't meet his dad right away (divorced parents, he didn't speak to his father for over 3 years), but when I did, he just grabbed me and hugged me. I feel very blessed. FMIL and I even had a conversation about crazy in-laws and she said this to me. "If my son loves you and you treat him well, why shouldn't I love you, too?" She loved me from the moment I met her because she knew that I loved her son. That was enough for her. His whole family treats me as one of their own and I'm so thankful and very blessed.
I'm in between "LOVE THEM" and "They're okay..." His parents are wonderful and very sweet. His brother just graduated high school so he can be slightly annoying but overall is really fun to be around. His grandma lives with his parents and is sweet but doesn't really speak English so I just kind of say hi to her and move on. His nephew is the cutest little chunkster ever though!
His sister... Well she has some growing up to do :)
I LOVE my FI family, they make me feel so welcome and are so nice. I feel really lucky.
Yay for all the happy bees!
I wonder if our votes will change in 5 or 10 years once kids come into the pictures .... :)
I love my in-laws! After 20 years of not having parents, it's great to be someone's "kid" again. I love my new aunts, uncles and cousins! My brother-in-laws are ok, but their wives are real snots. Don't care - I only see them at family dinners.
In my first marriage, I loved my in-laws. In fact, my ex-husband and I joke that I got his parents in the divorce, and he got mine. (And we both know that I was the lucky one on that deal.)
I have never met NotFroofy's family. She cut off contact with them many years ago. I have had some brief e-mail correspondence with them, but I have to be very careful.
I love my FILs!! They are wonderful people and very supportive of Mr.TKE and me. The are the craziest loonies I have ever met, but honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way!
My FI's family are mostly good but he has a brother who is really trashy and his dad and dad's new family (parents are divorced) are not always as nice as they profess to be. I love his grandmother and his aunt and uncle to death!
I definately love them. We're in to different things, and we have very different personalities, but they've accepted me from day one!
Actually, the first family function I attended as the GF I was introduced as "the other daughter" haha.
sometimes i feel as though fis family doesnt like me... they have never said or done anything mean... its just that i get that 'vibe' and my intuition is very good.... so yea. also i think the fact that fi and my family are soooooo close makes my relationship with his family seem inadequate.
I honestly LOVE them!! There are many days were i like them more than my own parents. There have been tough times but it is like having a second set of parents. His sister and I share a birthday and we are very close. Sometimes we don't agree but we fight like sisters so its all good.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE mine!!! They treat me like I'm their own....and its comfortable being around them even when FI isn't there.
He has an older half sister and half brother from his mom's previous marriage.....I'm not too close to them (sister lives down south).....
Not to hijack this thread....but does anyone feel like they don't want to get "too close" to the MIL if fear of pissing her "real" daughter off? I don't know why, they have never made me feel this way.....but sometimes I feel like I shouldn't overstep boundries and get too closee w/ the MIL because I don't want to hurt his sister's feelings cause shes not able to be around as much.
I got really lucky, I LOVE my in-laws! I get along soooo well with his mom it's awesome. She could be like my best friend. I have an amazing family as well, kinda like the brady bunch I always said, so I really lucked out. However, both past boyfriends family's were not so great at all....thank goodness!
I really don't feel like I fit in with my flaws family! I also feel like an outisde and it has much to do with culture and expectations on women. So I voted they're okay because I like my fmil..and she has been helping out but I wouldn't say she is the greatest.
I like a lot of them, others are alright. I didnt vote bc the options are extreme lol.
Umm they are ok. His BIL is very nice, kinda makes up for his sister being so quiet. His dad died the year before we got engaged, he was an alcoholic so I loved him as much as a person could. He was always said to like me very much and considering him and his personality that is quite a compliment. His mom is kind of wishy-washy, very nice, but makes me wonder at times. She is engaged to a new guy now, it's been almost 5 years since his dad passed, and made a "joke" the other night that they were going to try to get married before us because it would be funny... not really seeing the humor there.
As for the comment about feelings after you have children, we have a daughter and I feel the same way I always have. Of course, we don't see them very often so that may impact it a bit. Our daughter is very close with my side of the family though, she sees my mom and dad almost everyday.
Oh, I almost forgot! He has a cousin I can't stand and the feeling is mutual, we play nice for the family.
I didn't vote because my option wasn't included. I love my in-laws, but I can't say that I almost love them more than my own family! I've been with my family for 27 years--just can't compete with that. But I like my fiance's family quite a bit. They're loving, kind, supportive, and welcome me with open arms into their family. I know we'll grow closer over the years of our marriage.
My future in-laws are ok. They all really like me and like having me around. Most of them mean well but have a tendency to be selfish and inconsiderate. But they are ok in small doses. Of course there are a few of them that.....well, let's just say if I never saw them again it would be too soon. Luckily these are the ones I see the least anyways.
Funny, I live away from my FI family and can't get enough of them. I've even taken trips by myself to stay with them...without my FI.
I wonder if it would be different if I saw them all the time. Don't think it would change anything, but perhaps.
They are great people, very kind and generous, I can't say one bad thing about them. But at the same time, it is very difficult for me to relate to them or get close to them. It's unfortunate b/c they live so close and my family lives sort of far :(
FI's family = amazing, compassionate, rational, liberal
My extended family = irrational messes, crazy conservative in many cases
I'm so glad i'm marrying someone whose family makes up for my family's pitfalls. It's a nice balance.
I love my SO's family. They have been super kind to me since day one. I've grown really close to them and I consider them part of my family (even though me and my boyfriend are not engaged or married yet haha)
Wow, theres a lot of love on this board! I would unfortunately have to say I'm between, "they're ok" and "can't wait til they kick the bucket" To be fair its really only his grandma. But you can only be told your going to hell so many times before you start to dislike a person. Plus the women acts like she's on her death bed, she needs help to step up a curb but she can climb a ladder to clean the tops of her ceiling fan no problem! She's just too much sometimes.
This is hard for me. I love his mom, she has been great to us. She has her moments but she's overall fantastic. His brother and I have had a love/hate relationship. We're a lot alike and neither of us back down. Sometimes he gets a bit into himself for my taste but overall I'm lucky that we've been able to become close friends (which I know fiance likes). His dad is nice and he loves me I just have trouble getting along with him a lot more than everyone else (due to a lot of negativity in the way he acts). His grandparents are fantastic though!
I got lucky! I really, really love his immediate family. His extended family is kind of nutty...but whose isn't?
@MrsJKH2be: I have been a little concerned about getting close to my FFIL and FMIL due to my FSIL. I've gone on many family vacations where the sister wasn't present (she goes to college out of state), and I wonder how she feels about that...
@2dBride: My fiance's family is kind of like yours... when his parents divorced, his Dad got both sets of in-laws (and the kids).
Anyway, I LOVE them. We're closer with his Dad and Step-mom, both of whom fit right in with my family - they're very similar types of people in a lot of ways. Also, it turns out my Mom and his Dad went to the same high school and his Stepmom's ancestors come from the same area as my Dad's. Our parents even went out for dinner together once while we weren't even home visiting. My fiance gets along really well with my family, too. We've both really lucked out that way.
they are like my own family - nice in small doses. but i am the type of person who is closer to some of my friends than i usually am to family (one i always feel is there out of obligation , but friends are there because they want to be...) and we have totally different political and sometimes ethical views, so we clash sometimes.
but they are good people, and mean well and overall are very kind and nice and im proud to call them family - but like the rest of my OWN family - small doses.
I love my boyfriends family! His mom and I talk about the wedding although he and I aren't engaged yet. My parents were divorced when I was a baby and I never had the nuclear family that he was blessed with, I feel like they are the perfect addition to my life and while I still love my family more than life itself I'm so happy to be able to be a part of his.
I absolutely love my fiance's parents, step-parents, and sister and brother. FI is Brazilian so his mom, step-dad, and half brother and sister live here in the US so we get to see them a lot. I absolutely love this family. There is nothing better than going to their house, watching the men make churrasco (Brazilian BBQ), making homemade potato salad with his mom and just sitting around drinking wine and talking. His brother is in his junior year and his sister in her sophomore year of college so they're really great to be around. We're 25/26 so even though there is an age difference, it's closing quickly as they get older.
His dad and step-mom live in Brazil so we don't get to see them enough. His dad doesn't speak a lot of English and I'm learning Portuguese but even with the language barrier we have a great time! I know he loves me and I can't wait to become more fluent!
All-in-all, I am SO lucky to be marrying into this family!
They are a little much for me.. very loud.. but nice people. They are always very welcoming and kind. it's just overwhelming
i love them! his parents were so accepting of me since the moment i met them, and they've become a second set of parents for me.
Ok, I am not wishing death upon my in laws but it's worse than "they're ok..." More like, "they're insane, and if they moved to Australia and only visited yearly it would be AWESOME."
I also opted out of the voting because though I LOVE my in-laws..i can't say they're nearly as awesome as my family. My family is my life!
I did get lucky and am marrying into an equally wonderful family that loves me and that I love. FMIL is always making me food and won't let me lift a finger when I am around. We went on a road trips together and she said she loves going on roadtrip with me. FNiece is sweet..she is like out daughter. My family loves FI just as much.
I LOVE my FI parents and like you am so lucky to be marrying into such a wonderful family! His mom is like a 2nd mom to me. FI is 1 of 3 boys so doing all this girly wedding stuff has made his mom and I really close. :) My FI constantly tells me that his family loves me more than him too! hahahahahahaaha he's so silly. I do love them all though, his brothers are awesome too! And I am ALWAYS included and treated like one of the family! So, no, its not abnormal! haha :)
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