DH’s family are reasonably well off, but most of them are tight as hell, and are always on the scrounge. Money is their only topic of conversation. DH is as generous as the day is long, was a constant target for their money grabbing ways (his fault, I know) until his awful wife put a stop to it.
Anyhow, we met while working overseas. Got married quite soon after and have been very happy. We’ve had to bat off loads of scrounging CF over the years - I could write a book.
After marrying we decided to get a mortgage and buy a house in UK ready for our return. FIL (PIL are better off than we are) got wind of this so had a serious conversation with DH which involved us buying their house BUT they continue to live in it in perpetuity!! They didn’t let it drop either, we had follow up phone calls to see if we’d “made up our minds yet”.
A few years later he was trying to get DH to buy his car BUT - you’ve guessed it - FIL would continue to keep and use it!
These days we keep our distance as you can imagine.