am holding back the poison
will have to restrain myself here, as the other half's are pretty distinctive, and don't want to get on a bad side if I'm recognised...

my boyfriend has it pretty good in the MIL stakes, as my mum is lovely and quite eager to please. My dad, on the other hand, is a prize c**t. This can usually be counteracted though by my man asking nicely about how FIL's work is going. My man's issues are fairly light.

However, I have bigger problems.

His parents are divorced, after staying together MANY UNHAPPY YEARS CONTINUOUSLY DROPPING SPROGS. They both had affairs, one's attempted to do the other for kidnapping (when all that happened was they moved house), and ground massive neuroses into their children. Strangely, all the kids are kind of ok, but this is probably because they spent all their time cleaning up after their parents' emotional mess.

But I digress.

First meeting his mother, she had a peirced nose, tattoos, spikey orange hair and a face like shar-pei's arse. Basically, she looked like every joke dyke you've ever seen, crossed with chav mum. She's not, but it's an INCREDIBLY easy mistake. She's an angry lady, responsible for some HORRIBLE emotional torture on her kids, which they only admit to when very drunk. She moans continuously about being skint and wanting new furniture, but gives away items that I've pointed out to her are worth at least £1000, just so she can keep moaning.

His dad, however, remarried a total loon as well as being one already. They have pictures of their 'guru' all over the house, give thanks to 'the great spirit' before dinner, and attend Anthony Robbins talks (I live in the UK. Who does that over here??). And his father completely freaked me out to the point I'd rather never see him again recently, when after a birthday 'do' he decided it was appropriate to hug me rather too close and try and tongue me goodbye in front of his son.

I find my lovely other half's parents unbearable. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

No apologies for length, I'm getting stuff off my chest here.
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Thu 8 Sep 2005, 16:53, Reply)