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My brothers LOVE my husband.. I am the oldest, so they finally have a big brother to look up to instead of just a bossy big sister. :) They also are envious of his gamer/geek knowledge, so they are able to have conversations that just go over my head.
Me with his is a little different. He is also the oldest, with a sister, brother, and sister (in that order). I came off on the wrong foot with the two youngest at first, and they passed on that impression to the older sister, who's never quite gotten over it. The brother I get along with really well now, but the sisters are tougher. The older one is younger than him but older than me, so our pecking order in the family is confused. She is also very very different from me in personality, career choices, and values, so we talk, but don't really have much in common except we both love her brother. She does try, though, for his sake. The younger sister is challenging to get along with, because she's a teenaged girl, the baby, was my husband's "valentine" every year while he was single, and wants to be like her older sister in every way possible.
I think in general his family was kind of thrown for a loop when we started dating (I'm nothing at all like what any of them, including my husband, thought he would marry...), so they're all trying to catch up. :)
My fiance's sister lived with us for a couple months when she was between cities. We totally bonded during this time (Veronica Mars marathons!), and I missed her a ton afterward when she moved away to Chicago. My fiance gets along well with my two little brothers--my family has loved him from the get-go. He just seems to fit right in with my family's laid back vibe. (Not to mention the fiance finds my brothers' arguments hilarious.) We're really lucky, I realize.
My brother LOVES that he gained my husband, his brother, and his 2 half-brothers. He likes to point out that I am now way out-numbered on the girl front. The Mister also has a half-sister, but I have never met her.
I like my siblings in law to varrying degrees. One is crazy weird and makes me a litte uncomfortable, but we don't have to see him that much because he isn't super close with the family. The other has 2 adorable kids who I want to cuddle alllll the time! They live in Canada though. The Mister's full brother just got engaged, and they live in the UK. I'd like to be closer to he and his fiancee, but they are both pretty reserved and we just don't get to spend that much time with them. I definetly suffer from the "I'm not sure they like me syndrome" purely because I don't know them well enough to read them.
dh is an only child and i was too, until about 4 years ago when my dad remarried. my step siblings and ss-i-l seem to adore husband. probably because he is adorable.
my fiance gets along great with my brother and SIL. his brother, however, HATES me, so much so that he is considering not going to the wedding. part of it has to do with the fact he's a misogynistic bastard. the other part is that he has hated every woman my FI has dated. we think he might be jealous of our relationship. another theory is that he liked me when we were in high school, before i met my FI, and is now upset i am marrying his brother. it doesn't affect me much. i was looking forward to gaining another brother, but this guy is obviously a bit messed up. i also don't get along too well with his father, who is also a misogynist. his mother is mentally ill and because of that it is hard to get along sometimes. i'm grateful that i have a loving, caring family.
FI's sister and i have always gotten along fine. and since we've both gotten engaged and are planning our weddings we've gotten much much closer. she'll be a BM in my wedding and she's asked me to be a greeter at hers. we're BOTH getting married this year--her in May and myself in Nov!
FI had a hard time getting to know my sister and brother because they live in TX and we live in the DC metro area. 1500+ miles makes it difficult for them to get to know each other well enough to be totally comfortable. it doesn't help that my sister and brother have always been super-protective of me because i've had some seriously horrible relationships in my past. BUT... since we got engaged, FI and the sibs have made greater efforts to get to really know each other-- brother even calls FI to get girl advice now!
Does anyone else have sibs that are having a hard time getting to know their FI because of long distance??
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I am an only child and marrying an only child. I kind of always envisioned marrying into a big family, but that's not the case! He doesn't even have any cousins!
I think the lack of "extra opinions" has made the wedding planning soo much easier.
I love my siblings-in-law so much! My brother-in-law lives in the same city as us, so we've bonded the most.
On the other side, my DH hasn't had much time to bond with my siblings, and sadly, my sister snubbed him when they first met. She prejudged him based on him on his faith and religion, but now she's realizing that she was wrong.
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My hubs is a twin, so it would be interesting if I didn't get along with his brother...but really he's just been like my brother. Sometimes we make each other mad, but we mostly just make each other laugh and get advice from each other...so I'm pretty luckier and couldn't be happier with the relationship. As far as my sister goes, she and my husband also really liked each other and got along with siblings. Although, my sister and I had a falling out, so we haven't talked to her for a while and don't plan on it now...we can't stand her husband and we both that will FOR SURE never change.
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i get along with the BILs as well as da hubs does. i'm super duper dooooper close to my brother so i am soooo glad DH and bro have a fantastic relationship. someday if/when i get a sis-in-law (bro's SO), i surely hope she fits right in!
Poor Mr. Peep is babysitting my nephew as we speak. Considering he is the only one who has ever baby sat him, I think he gets along pretty well with my fam. And his sister is adorable, what's not to love? I totally know that I am lucky.
My sister and her husband just love my husband, and he really likes them. Unfortunately they live halfway across the country - but we still see them as much as we can.
My husband's brother is a nice guy, and we mostly get along fine. His sister is awful. The only good thing about that relationship is that he doesn't get along with her either, so we purposely hardly ever see her. The biggest problem is that his brother doesn't work (seriously, "retired" at 50, and no, he's not a Microsoft millionaire or something) and his sister works sort of a dead-end retail job. Neither one of them is married, and it seems to me that they get along okay on the money they have. But we both make a lot more - and so they seem to always be coming up with something that we should all do, and of course, he and I should pay for (because we're so much better off than they are). Hey, we have two kids (his) in college! We're still better off, but it's because we work very hard. This is something we talked about before we got married, because I really thought it had to stop - and it has, but they don't seem to have quite figured that out yet, because they still ask. We're in the middle of yet another one of those situations right now, and it's pretty stressful.
My husband has three brothers, 2 are married, all 3 have kids. I love the whole bunch! I had one brother so its so much fun to get all these new brothers and sisters. Although only 1 lives close, FAcebook has been an awesome way of staying up to date on what is going on with everyone and genrally to just stay in touch.
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My FI's older brother (his only sibling) and I get along really well. FBIL is a high school English teacher and I'm a book lover, so we find plenty to talk about. The two of them aren't especially close, but FBIL and his wife (and new baby! SO adorable!) live nearby, and we see them fairly often.
My two older brothers like my FI -- they like to tease him a little because he's older than both of them. One lives about 300 miles away, and the other about 3,000 miles away, so we don't see them too often, but they get along very well. I think they would honestly like any guy who made me happy, which FI clearly does.
I love my SIL and Step SIL! I wish I lived closer to them. I love going on vacation and doing holidays and stuff. My BIL is... um... a dude. So we get along just fine but I know he has a low tolerance for women :) BUT, he does read weddingbee, funny enough :)
My fiance is extremely close with my brotehr and sister. My sister treats him like a little borther and my brother and he played hockey together for awhile. I am not close to his brother, we live in different states. I'd like to get to know him better though.
Mr. Cupcake is an only child, so that makes things easy! I have one brother who is married, and the four of us all get along GREAT and love to hang out. Sometimes I think I have to separate my brother & Mr. Cupcake -- they have TOO MUCH fun together! But overall we're really lucky that the four of us get along so well, and it's nice that it is just the four of us.
I love his brothers. They're both younger (one's a teenager) and they're tons of fun. I'm an only.
My relationship with my brother is not that great, so neither is my FI's with him.
My relationship with my FI's sisters and their husband/FI are great! We're all Facebook friends and keep up-to-date that way, talking a few times a week. Distance prevents me from keeping up with them in person (I live in Boston, one set of them lives in Columbus, OH, and the other in Atlanta, GA).
PS-my relationship w/my brother isn't personal between him and myself--he's not communicating with anyone in my family right now, and I'm caught in the middle. 
(I just read that and realized it looked bad...)
My FSIL is only a year and a half younger than I am. Since we're close in age, I was hoping that we would be able to relate to one another and be closer friends. I have since realized that I'll always be known as her brother's girlfriend. Part of the problem may lie in the fact that I get along with people much younger than I am and those who are older than me but not exactly those my age. I hope that with the wedding planning we can get to know each other better and maybe have a closer relationship.
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Yikes, this is hard for us. We both get along with each others parents, but siblings are more complicated.
DH and my brother have nothing in common. Literally, NOTHING. It's uncanny. They respect each other and are friendly, but definitely don't have much of a relationship.
DH has three siblings and I get along with two of them (and their spouses/children). While they are substantially older than I am, so I don't see us becoming BFF, it's very nice to have people I genuinely care about and look forward to visiting. However, I can't stand one of his sisters and she can't stand me. She's definitely a black sheep in the family, but it's still really awkward. It's all we can do to be polite.
One of my sisters has been dating one of his brothers for three years. Their relationship has been very rocky, to say the least. We find it difficult to stay out of the middle of their drama. Once we became engaged, our siblings relationship fell apart. They are on a break, but not broken up (?).
For us, it's a mixed bad. My husband gets along great with my brother. His family is more complicated. I love his dad's two children - they're 12 and 16 and live in England so we don't see them that often, but they're fantastic and I love them to pieces. I'd never met his other two siblings (his mom's kids) before the wedding day - brother is a good kid, sister is kind of a psychopath and I've had a LOT of bad experiences with her. Luckily they live in Connecticut so I don't have to deal with them that often but she has a tendancy to create havoc (drinking, stealing, lying about me to other family members) so I'm not her biggest fan.
We each have 3 siblings. He has 2 brothers and a sister. I have 2 sisters and a brother. He is the oldest in his family, so I am the big sister his siblings never had. We get along great. I was in Dominican Republic this past December for a wedding and couldn't wait to head to Michigan (where we spent X-mas and where his family is located) to see them all again. I'm the 3rd in my family, but he is the brother that my brother never had although they act more like good friends - they have the same favorite bands, they love beer, haha. etc. My sisters really like him too and go to him for advice.
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My husband is an only- so I don't have to deal with any siblings!
I'm an only child so my hubby just has my parents to get along with (which he does just fine, praise the Lord!) As for me, I love my BIL! He's still in college, so I try to invite him over for a good (haha) home-cooked meal. :)
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How are you getting along with your spouse's siblings? What about vice versa - is your spouse getting along with your own brothers and sisters?
The sister/brother relationship can be pretty intense... so wondeing how you guys are integrating into each others' families. Are you the sister that your SIL or BIL never had? Do you guys never really talk except at Thanksgiving? Or is it something else all together... (please explain!).