The In-Laws

They're football people, though, and northwesterners, and come-visit-us-for-two-weeks-ers, and Republicans, and I wonder what future frictions these things may cause.

Last weekend, my girlfriend's mother told me that she planned to have liposuction and then instructed me to not tell my girl. I know that my girlfriend will disapprove of the surgery, but I've been waiting until she finished some stressful exams to tell her about it.

I'm not really looking for advice, because I know what I'm going to do. I'm just really pissed off and needed to bitch about a retarded (future) in-law. Anybody else have an in-law pull some real bullshit on you like that?

no but youve got to forget you even heard that shit

For real?

yeah. if you tell your girlfriend i just dont see how this is going to end well for you. zip it. forget it. unless you think theres a chance her mom will tell her she told you?

If it was me I would laugh and be like - you shouldn't have told me that, you know I tell her everything.

But why would she tell you and then say 'but don't tell yr gf?'. Sounds like she's just chickening out of telling her herself and maybe thinks this os a way your gf would get to hear about it anyway?

SUNNY: "Your mother's getting another tattoo!"
ME: "Why in the hell are you telling me this?"

tracer hand otm - so totally wrong to expect you not to be more loyal to her than her daughter. maybe she's testing you???

not

haha..yes and that wasnt even a secret xxp

My thoughts have been pretty much what Ned said. Any way you slice it, it's a bunch of bullshit though. I was raised to be honest and I expect that from other people.

DONT TELL UR GIRLFRIEND and then if ur girlfriend finds out pretend u thought her mom was joking

Oh nevermind I think max has the best idea so far thank max

thnaks

yeah max is spot on

Father in law:

"did you hear there's no nativity scene in Washington this year? They couldn't find three wise men, there are no virgins, but there sure are plenty of asses".

off to spend the holidays with them tomorrow.

Really? I'm here too. Looking forward to meeting you.

you too. haha.

i'll bring some booze.

Mother-in-law today "I think K is too smart for daycare. I think she will be too bored. You can't send her. You have to send her to a gifted daycare."

1) What the fuck is a gifted daycare?
2) Where the fuck is a gifted daycare?
3) Who the fuck is going to pay for that, if it exists?
4) If you think it's such a bad idea, why don't you watch her full time?

my mother-in-law is such a mess, my wife basically has no parents (her father went AWOL before she was born). After my wife's grandma died, her mother quit her job, took her share of the inheritance and moved to Portland. She has health problems - both mental and physical - but refuses all help, won't see a doctor, etc. Landed in the hospital a couple years ago, her bro + sisters had to come help out. She can't/won't hold a job, idk what she does all day besides hang out with cats and drink wine. She is like a permanent adolescent - prone to temper tantrums, self-absorbed, uncommunicative, secretive etc. My wife is just sick of dealing with her, is constantly telling her she needs to get help, get on meds, take care of herself. But now she's up and decided to just sell her condo and move to... a trailer park in Florida! Where she has never been, knows nothing about, and has no connection to other than a sister who just moved there (and suggested/orchestrated this proposed move). Suffice to say if she moves to Florida odds on us seeing her at all are extremely slim; I simply can't afford to fly the entire family out there regularly, and it's not like we can stay with her in a trailer park full of cats. It's like she just dgaf about her daughter or grandkids or even herself really. The stress on my wife really bums me out. My family loves my wife (maybe too much sometimes tbh; oh is my mom ever excited about having a daughter-in-law) but it sucks for her to feel more or less abandoned by her parents.

my wife is at least close with several of her aunts, who we see much more of than her mom and are all wonderful. so there's that.

I never had a gripe with any of my in-laws. They aren't malicious, egoistic or mean-spirited. I like them. I am incredibly fortunate in my family relations, even the accidental ones.