Do you get along with your significant other's family?

Canada
November 24, 2008 9:17pm CST
All of my boyfriends family loves me. We all get along great. But his brother on the other hand, I assolutely hate. Hes a freeloader, and had his freeloading girlfriend live with them without even asking his parents. The worst part is that even though they are living/eating there for free, they make alot more than his aparents, shes a nurse adn hes a dietary aide at the hospital. That right there made me hate them cause his parents are in debt because of all the extra money spent on them. But not that long ago his brother yelled at me cuase myboyfriend got too drunk, and his girlfriend is all around nasty to everybody. His family hates her. So aside from those two, we all get along as if they were my own family. What about you..do you get along with your significant other's family well? If not, is there any family horror stories you have to share?
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• United States
26 Nov 08
I get along pretty well with my girlfriends family. Her dad loves me for some reason and I'm not sure why. Her mom and I do talk, we are nice to each other and we do help each other out for classes and what not as she's finishing up a degree in the same field that I'm working to become certified in myself. Her sister and I do talk. Her sister likes me more than her sister sometimes and I'm not sure why either, haha.
@mansha (6298)
• India
25 Nov 08
We all have families that we either get along or not right now I am really not getting along that wel wioth my souse's family as they really gave me a hard time a year and a half back when I last met them, since then at first I didn't speak to them at all but then I do answer their calls but still have not forgiven them enough to go and meet them again. They all combinedy accused me of lying and being high headed and all that. I was very upset, we had gone to spend a month with them and because of the dramatic scenes my sister in law created and my in laws didn't stop her despite knowing the truth and being their when she said I had told her (which by the way I have never said) to never come back to my house. Instead even my mother in law later on(aftewr she had left) recalled that I was saying the opposite that she saved my life after delivery by being their. I was so thankful, she had suggested me to consult my gynae to take a laxative after delivery as in my first delivery I didn't so I had suffered a lot. And so many things she said which later on I felt were said out of jealousy as we had recently purchased a samll one room flat and a car with our savings. WHile she had none of them , it had hurt me real bad as I have in all the past fifteen years of marriage tried to be there for them financially or otherwise and yet I got such cruel treatment from them all. They even accused me of only helping them out just to show off that I am good and she is bad. what kind of people they are, I just don't know so right now I am not getting along with them at all. All my hardwork of building a realtionship with them and keeping family together went down the drain that month. I still can not bring myself to love them anymore and its still really hard to find forgiveness inside me for them. What appalled me most was my inlaws siding with her and my hubby playing the part of dumb spectator amidst all of this. I am not sure what path will I take in future with them but now I know that they are no friends of mine and they will never be.Love which I thought they had was never there I was just fooling myself about its existence.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
25 Nov 08
My girlfriends' families have all loved me so far. I find that kind of strange really because my parents would probably never approve of anyone I date (unless I started dating men). But it's cool that I have been so easily accepted.
• United States
25 Nov 08
I get along ok, but have learned to keep my distance. Seems like when I let myself get involved, I end up getting burned by family politics that I either do not understand or find annoying.
• United States
25 Nov 08
I have a great mother in law and her dad and I get along just as well. They don't pull any punches with me because I love their daughter, she's the bread winner right now but thats just because I'm a stay at home dad and they see how well my children behave so its all good. I get along with her brothers too. Its a good fit.