I've been lucky in that I get along well with my in-laws! We're visiting them now and life is so different with their help... I even took a nap yesterday!
Just made a poll... you can vote more than once, if you feel different about individual in-law parents, or if you have step in laws that you'd like to vote for!
Do you like your in-laws?
146 votes
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
I'm somewhere between disliking them and honestly can't stand them. I picked I can't stand them since that's how I'm feeling today.
pineapple / 12793 posts
We have a love / hate relationship.
I love my FIL and hate my MIL. 
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Yep. MIL and I had issues when we first got married cuz of her overbearing tendencies, but since DH's big talk about boundaries with her...and the birth of DS, our relationship is much more balanced and I enjoy spending time with them.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I love my MIL! She is the best.
I'm neutral on my FIL. He wasn't in DH's life much. I've only met him once.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
Tolerate them! They are nice people, we just have NOTHING to say to each other and they are awkward around R. I am glad they are 4 hours away and we see them a handful of times a year. Going to visit next weekend and I am not looking forward to it at all.
coconut / 8483 posts
Love them for the most part! They get annoying at times, but so does every body! 
pineapple / 12802 posts
I really love them!
My FIL is a little weird, but he cares about us so much and would do anything for us, and that is worth my love in my books!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
I love my FIL and tolerate my MIL she can give me rage sometimes though.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I voted love them because they're not pushy and are always super nice to me and don't demand anything from me!
coconut / 8234 posts
I love them! My MIL just arrived to stay with us until Monday and help celebrate LO's birthday. There may even be dinner waiting for me when I get home. She cooks and cleans and is fun! I have to get her to make me her famous meatloaf on Sunday 
My FIL and his wife are awesome. And they're even awesomer for living near Disney.
DH's Grandma and Aunt are the closest in-laws to us (but still far away in Jerz) and I love them, too. I text with his Aunt almost every day.
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
I love them - I just wish there was less of a language barrier because I would love to talk to my MIL about deeper things. She's such a nonjudgmental and nurturing mom!
@mrbee: you guys should move out here or convince them to move out there!! That would be the life. 
pomegranate / 3759 posts
Love them! But told DH if we move too close to them my feelings may change!
grapefruit / 4554 posts
Love them! They have done so much for us and even more so since we had the girls.
cantaloupe / 6885 posts
Love! My SIL is my childhood best friend so I grew up with my in laws as my second family
bananas / 9628 posts
my MIL brings out a rage in me i never knew i had, it frightens me. FIL is a terrible person, but usually leaves me alone, so i'm good with that. as long as they keep their crazy to themselves, we can get along, that has proven to be quite the challenge though.
cantaloupe / 6059 posts
I tolerate them but FIL and MIL still like to think they can run DH's (and by extension, mine too) life despite the fact that he is an independent married adult and parent, which is obviously frustrating. MIL and I don't have much in common which makes visits with them a bit awkward, too.
nectarine / 2994 posts
I tolerate them. I used to love them until we moved in with them, but so many issues while living with them means I doubt we'll ever be how we used to be. They are too judgemental and bossy. Mil was certainly worse then fil though
eggplant / 11824 posts
I LOVE my in-laws!!! (Except when my mil reorganizes my closet and does my laundry without asking!)
grapefruit / 4703 posts
I love them! They aren't boundary pushers at all, which I appreciate, and they're very laid back, which is how my parents are as well, so it's a good fit. I don't have kids yet though, so maybe the dynamic will change (I hope not!)
pear / 1672 posts
They're nice in general, but they do some things that I find completely selfish. They always find a way to remind us that we don't live close to them. They only like to visit for 24 hours or less. When they are around they are nice, and I will take that over other things I've seen and heard.
grapefruit / 4582 posts
I looooove one set (MIL & her wife) and am neutral about the other (FIL & his wife).
grapefruit / 4770 posts
I'm all worked up in a rage right now just from reading the thread title 
. Put it this way, I put a 12hr drive between us, and that still isn't enough....
pear / 1998 posts
You need a "I like them" option. I wouldn't ever say OMG I LOVE MY IN-LAWS, but they are nice, polite people that are generally very sweet and loving, but man do they annoy me sometimes.
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
I think they are fine. They are nice kind people, but we live literally a stones throw away & MIL is incredibly nosy & doesn't work...so I feel like she spies on us all day. Also she's kind of dense & repeatedly asks the same question over & over. But they are otherwise great so I'd say I have it alright.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
I love my MIL and FIL and the vast majority of my in-laws. They love me and they always mean well, although it gets a little overbearing/overwhelming sometimes. I get annoyed by stuff they do sometimes, but its not any different then when I get annoyed with my parents about stuff. Basically, they're family.
coconut / 8475 posts
@yoursilverlining: oh boo-hoo. Send her over to my pig-sty of a closet I'll take her off your hands.
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