Do you get along with your in-laws?

Do you get along with your in-laws?

You know, I know that they’re just after the well being of their son and all but sometimes it can be intrusive.

My husband is the eldest of seven kids.  It’s a big family and…well… he’s the eldest son.  It just really bothers me when they get wind of what I do and it’s just somewhat against what they do.  “Against” means different.   Then talk occurs then they start calling and trying to find out why this why that… then the ever condescending “ok if that’s how you want to do it.”

I belong to a small family.  I have two other sisters and my dad.  My mom has passed away.   In our family we have a very simple philosophy, “If you don’t call then everything must be fine.”  That doesn’t mean that we don’t talk to each other by the way.  It’s just that we all live in different states.  My dad though is just a few blocks away from my house which is fine but being “the dad” he doesn’t really intrude on what we do. 

Oh well… I suppose there is truth in the saying, “You don’t just marry the man, you marry his entire family.”