Spouses Parents

@icequeen (2840)
Canada
December 5, 2006 10:39am CST
If one of your spouses/partners parents was constantly calling with thier problems and wanting your partner to come over...and it was becoming intrusive and eroding your relationship how would you handle it?
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@browneyes (395)
• United States
5 Dec 06
Humm I have been threw this.. My father in law and I do not get along. And he would call all the time. We live about 20 miles away when there is family only a few blocks away from him. He would barrow things and make us deliver it. He would use are shop for storage, but we better not use it. One time my husband used the mans propaine heater and the man charged us for the use of it.. So last winter after 20 years of putting up with him. I wrote out a bill to him and sent it to him. lol.. I charged him for storage of his stuff. Gas for delivery and pick up of stuff he barrowed. I charged him for clean up of a bunch of stuff that he dumped on are propery . that I had to haul to the dump.The list went on and on.. I showed it to my husband, and told him I had had enough. My husband laughed about it. And told me to go ahead and send it. I got a very nasty phone call from my father in law. But we came to an understanding of sorts. The man has a money to burn. and I guess thats how he keeps it. Maybe you could make out a bill for couseling or something ? Or for what ever there problems are. Its a thought. Are phone calls are very few like that now. Good luck to you. I truely feel for you. Have been there myself.
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@icequeen (2840)
• Canada
7 Dec 06
Wow...this is a good idea....but I would not have the nerve...
• United States
5 Dec 06
I would say set one day a week a side That he could spend the whole day there and help them with what ever is going on. The parents have to nderstand that there sons has his family now and that he needs to be with them too.
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@msqtech (15073)
• United States
5 Dec 06
I would work it out between us
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