Take my Mother-in-law...There's a reason there are so many bad jokes about mothers-in-law. You don't choose them, they just come along as emotional baggage with your object of affection. I'm lucky, my m-i-l is lovely*, but don't let that put you off telling us how mad your in-laws really are.
*No, really
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chthonic, Thu 8 Sep 2005, 9:48)
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Not yet, but possibly in-lawsThey're really lovely, very lovely. They've lent me money in times of need and have actually bought me completely unnecessarily expensive gifts. And they're great cooks. Not to mention they made the greatest boyfriend ever.
That said, they are a bit, erm, smothery. I once counted five phone calls to our flat before noon. This is normal. My bf's brother went out to a movie with us one night, and when we came out, his mobile had fourteen missed calls from home. Fourteen. During a ninety minute interval. My bf and his brother find this completely normal, and don't understand why this is strange to me (I speak to my mother on the phone about once a fortnight).
This reached a dramatic denouement when my bf was out of town and I was sick- nothing life threatening, just a cold. I didn't want to get out of bed to answer the phone (which was ringing in regular ten-minute intervals until midnight), because I was tired and, well, sick. I found out later that this had panicked the well-meaning family so much that they had considering coming to the flat (about an hour's journey) and getting the fire department to hack down the front door with an axe. Yikes.
(, Fri 9 Sep 2005, 5:04, Reply)
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