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To ask you to describe your relationship with your in-laws in three words

323 replies

QueenE27 · 25/02/2016 21:41

This was asked of me today and i'm curious to hear other peoples answers!

OP posts:
monkeysox · 25/02/2016 21:57

Stuck in dark-ages

IckyPlush · 25/02/2016 21:57

Love my MiL 😀

If it was my ex mil it would be 'interfering controlling witch'

LadyintheRadiator · 25/02/2016 21:57

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

poocatcherchampion · 25/02/2016 21:58

Lovely kind people

LegoLady95 · 25/02/2016 22:01

Loving, supportive, mickey-taking

MrsNoraCharles · 25/02/2016 22:11

Never met them.

Purplehonesty · 25/02/2016 22:11

Loving
Helpful
Fun

Littlecaf · 25/02/2016 22:12

Wish we'd met

PurpleDaisies · 25/02/2016 22:13

Wonderful and awful

Paddingtonthebear · 25/02/2016 22:13

Often hard work

leliondemer · 25/02/2016 22:13

Helpful
Overbearing
Fusspots

SingSongSlummy · 25/02/2016 22:14

Irritating, fraught, exhausting

Puffykins · 25/02/2016 22:14

Cold, uninterested, joyless.

Iwonderif · 25/02/2016 22:15

Loving, supportive, loyal

bibbitybobbityyhat · 25/02/2016 22:15

A bit distant.

TattyDevine · 25/02/2016 22:16

At arms length.

OneEpisode · 25/02/2016 22:16

Caring thoughtful respectful
That's just mil, fil no longer with us

OhForFrigSake · 25/02/2016 22:17

(Like I'm)... Wearing invisibility cloak

  • I cheated there but it's true. They completely ignore me. I'll drop my DSs off and they won't say hi, bye or anything in between. I think they'd be nicer to an au pair to be honest. Btw have a great relationship with their son, my DH, been together 15 years.
ZiggyFartFace · 25/02/2016 22:18

Love my MIL.
Miss my PIL.

TurnOffTheTv · 25/02/2016 22:18

Loving hilarious fun

MothButterfly · 25/02/2016 22:20

On different wavelengths

FellOutOfBedTwice · 25/02/2016 22:20

Really hard work

RascarCapac · 25/02/2016 22:20

I'm very lucky

SanityClause · 25/02/2016 22:21

Thinly veiled hostility

PiperChapstick · 25/02/2016 22:22

Loving, funny, supportive

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