My in-laws are divorced and they get along *at the moment* and they attend family functions together. 
I hope they can continue to get along for LO's 2nd birthday party in January!
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My IL? No way!!!
My parents? Yep! They get along great!
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My in-laws are divorced. I think MIL and FIL get along okay with each other, but MIL and Step-MIL HATE EACH OTHER! Apparently so much that SMIL refused to attend my baby shower because MIL was going to be there!
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Yup, they get along and keep in touch.
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My parents got divorced when I was five. My Dad was present in our lives (weekends) until he moved out of state. Then we only saw him once in a while. Finally, he remarried a wonderful woman and became involved in our lives again. My mom generally doesn't have much nice to say about my dad (he was an alcoholic and kind of an asshole while they were married), though she has said he's much better since the remarriage. My dad never had anything bad to say about my mom. Now, they don't really talk. My Dad had a stroke a few years ago, my stepmom passed away and he lives alone near my aunt. My mom is remarried and happily living out her retirement on the farm.
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My MIL and FIL absolutely despise each other. It's one of those things that will annoy me forever. Just grow up. I'm disgusted by the fact my husband and his siblings spend half their childhood having to hear about how much their parents hated each other. I will say my MIL tries MUCH harder than my FIL to be civil.
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I've never met DH's bio dad. He knows that we got married. I don't think that he knows about LO. DH has always considered his step-dad his dad despite retaining his dad's last name.
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My divorced parents get along amazingly well. They are still best friends.
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MIL and FIL are friendly. Now, my parents its a different story.
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Aw, I'm glad your ILs get along! My parents do not
My dad tries to be civil, but he's at the point where he's completely fed up with my mom's BS. I don't blame him. When your ex-wife buys an expensive house and drives a Mercedes, and then refuses to financially support her college-age daughters....
It sucks!
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No, they are not on good terms. My FIL is not in any of our lives. It's a recent divorce so who knows what the future holds. But he's never met either of his grandkids. One of the last communications we had with him was when Wagon Jr. was born, so I'm pretty sure he doesn't know LMW is here.
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My divorced parents used to not get along at all but now that their two daughters have grown and they don't have to associate much they are civil to each other when they cross paths.
I'm about to tell the super sad romantic story of my IL's. I broke everyone's hearts last time I posted it on here but I'll tell it again.
DH's parents divorced when he was 3 because they just couldn't get along, but stayed friends and in touch the whole time DH and his sister were growing up. My FIL never remarried but my MIL married a really nice man. They still continued to stay on good terms. When DH was about 18, his stepdad cheated on his mom and they divorced. We still stay in touch with his stepdad. He was a second father figure to DH and is a very nice man even though he did some unfavorable things.
Well it didn't take long for FIL and MIL to realize they still loved each other and soon they announced they were getting remarried! Unfortunately about 3 months after they remarried MIL got really sick and it turned out she had cancer. She died about a month after her diagnosis. FIL was devastated. It's been about 4 years and he still hasn't gotten over it. -
My mom and dad try to be civil to each other if they have to be together, but normally just pretend the other one doesn't exist (they didn't say a word to each other at my wedding, even when we were taking photos together).
My stepmother hates my mom, though, and is constantly trying to stir shit up, particularly to me. It annoys me to no end.
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No, my parents do not talk. They tolerated each other at my wedding but will never talk otherwise. I tried to get them together for LOs first bday but at the last minute my dad backed out and I was livid with him. Its really unfair when parents dont communicate because it always makes the children the middle man.
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If my parents see each other they will speak and be civil. They have no problem being at the same functions, like my wedding or graduation party. Last time they were in the same room I saw them laughing and joking together. My stepmother does not attend any of these events. She is always invited, but there would probably be tons of tension if she and my mother were at the same place.
My ILs will speak to each other, but it is awkward. My FIL was not present in my DH's life and that upsets my MIL.
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I don't think DH's parents were ever really around each other after they split.
My parents always got along well and I think I can say they're now "dating" after being divorced for over 10 years!
sidenote: They were always fine around other when they were with other people though, even when around the other's SO.
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IL's didn't speak for 20 years and wouldn't be in the same room together...until DH & I met and got married
They were actually friendly at the wedding and have been at every other event since. DH thinks its crazy and can't believe it actually happened.
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Um, no...my ILs do NOT get along. It's better than it was, though...maybe someday.
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@luckypenny: Love hearing stories like this!
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My ILs are divorced and there situation is weird. They are both dating other people, but don't ever talk to each other. When they see each other they pretend to be friendly, but talk behind their ex-spouses back. It's quite juvenile.
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My parents are divorced and get along when they are together but that is very rare! Last time was at my wedding. They didn't chat a lot but, but were very civil.
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My parents had a restraining order against each other from the time I was very young and were only allowed to communicate with each other through their lawyers or certain documents. I didn't even see my mom for decades. But after she died a few years ago, it was my dad who took care of burying her...so you just never know.
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My inlaws are on good terms now. They had an extremely strained relationship from the time of their divorce (when my dh was 8) until he was 18. Once he was out of the house and they didn't HAVE to speak to each other they just… didn't. Except occasionally to yell at each other, from what I hear. That even extended to my SIL who refused to speak to her dad/step mom for I think at least 5 years. That lasted until my husband was 25 and we got engaged and they all realized that they were going to have to be in the same room again for our wedding. My SIL decided to forgive her dad for a lot of things and repaired that relationship, which helped repair the inlaw parent relationship, and no one threw a punch at our wedding. I think they clearly still don't like each other but they're capable of interacting now.
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my parents get along great! my mom and stepmom will call each other on the phone and talk. everyone is always so surprised when I say how much my parents gets along. my mom says they are much better at being friends, than they were at being husband and wife.
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My parents are still married, but my ILs divorced when my hubby was five. MIL and FIL do NOT get along, but apparently the fact that they can be *almost* civil to each other now is a vast improvement over the way things were for the past 30 years.
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My in-laws are on good terms and get along well. They were married for almost 20 years when they got divorced....they got married very young and were simply different people at 35 than they were at 18, so they parted. They still remain friends though.
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@Danizaur:
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My ILs are divorced and they are civil when around each other. They've gotten pretty good at not talking down about each other when they are just with the kids too. I'm thankful that they can handle being at functions together!
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Ugh. When DH and I met, both of our parents were together. Both split after 31 years of marriage - yuck. We are going to be very, very careful and extra loving around the 30 year mark.
MIL and FIL don't really get along. They were able to interact at our wedding, DH's grad school graduation. But now, things have deteriorated. I wanted everyone to share Tgiving since Jumbo will be a week old, but that's not happening.
My parents just split. They are friendly for now and have all mutual friends. They see each other at least twice per month socially or for family events. In fact, they will drive down together later this week when Jumbo is born.... I'm worried their good natures will change soon though (we learned more details about my dad's behavior in the marriage... my mom won't be pleased...)
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@spaniellove: wow. Guess it just goes to show, you just never know...
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It amazes me to hear of all these exes getting along so well! My dad left my mum twenty years ago and she never got over it - so much so that she was completely unable to be there for me while he was dying last year. When I called her, heartbroken, and said that he had passed on that morning, there was a pause and then she said "Ahh, finally, I'm free... but I wont be happy until he is in the ground". Yeah, thanks mum!
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My parents are still happily married.
My ILs divorced when my husband was 8 - his dad cheated. And cheated not in the throes of passion, but because he was unhappy and thought it was the easiest, least confrontational way to get out. Yeah, the guys has no cajones. The first time they spoke after the divorce was at our wedding (I have *no* idea how they handled visitation all those years). They have seen each other a few times since then and are civil, but they have no relationship. My DH also has pretty much zero relationship with his dad - his dad never put any effort into seeing him or forming a relationship. It sucks. My MIL badmouths my FIL A LOT, which annoys the heck out of me, but I get it. He's a really spineless guy who never stood up to his responsibilities.
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