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Nope. DH is very respectful when it comes to my family. He'll agree with me when I complain about them, but he won't come out right and say "I didn't like what your *insert family member* said or did." We'll see if that changes at all after we have kids.

Only that they're religious so he can't 100% be himself around them.

Yes! my parents and brother but for different reasons. Not without merit, but we are going to try to pursue a policy of positive thinking and constructive engagement this holiday season and see how it goes...

No, I usually complain about my family more than he does!

Yes, we both complain about each others' families. But we are each more annoyed by our own families than by the other's.

No, nothing harsh or negative is our rule, mostly we just joke about eachothers' family's idiosyncracies.

Sometimes. Nothing to harsh, but when they do something annoying.

We tend to both complain more about his family though.

Nope - my family is awesome. I complain about his!

He doesn't know most of them, so generally it's me complaining about them. But he and my stepbrother hate each other, and I'm pretty sure it has the potential to one day come to blows (stepbrother totally has it coming to him, he's a douchecanoe to the nth degree).

Nope, they're pretty awesome.

Sometimes but rarely my immediate family. We both tend to complain about the same things and people on both sides! But I admit I complain a lot about a few of his relatives lately. Just 4 people...who luckily he can't stand either!

We complain about each others' constantly. But we've been around them since we were 14 (best friends in high school), so we're practically PART of each others families too.

not at all. and for how much time he spends with them (my parents have lived with us for short periods of time, my mom is over during the week to watch DS, etc.) i think he's got more patience that i ever would if the situation was reversed!

he did get annoyed a couple of times this summer when my dad broke our lawn mower (fixable, but annoying). he got it over pretty quickly tho because my dad was mowing our lawn for us (while unemployed at the time).

I complain about his, and he occasionally says something about mine. He is more or less just agreeing with me when I complain about my family.

@shellio: Same here! We both complain some, but we also live within 20 minutes of both families and spend a lot of time with them. But in general, he's way more annoyed with his family than mine. I'm probably equally annoyed with all of them, though.