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do you see mil/pil without dh

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sexylady · 01/04/2007 08:21

i have always found my pil difficult to be around so have never been to see them or invited them round without dh being there.

just wondered if many people see mil/pil without dh.

OP posts:

bozza · 01/04/2007 17:11

I wouldn't say it happens all the time with me - once every 6 weeks or so.

hunkermunker · 01/04/2007 17:13

Yes, a fair bit.

ChasingRabbits · 01/04/2007 17:14

God no, I don't answer the phone when they ring (caller display) if DH isn't here either, I let 1571 pick it up, and if he is here I make him answer it.

Spidermama · 01/04/2007 17:15

I would be very uncomfortable around FIL without dh, but I don't mind seeing MIL without him. (They're divorced)

Carmenere · 01/04/2007 17:15

I would rather have my toenails pulled out.

idlemum · 01/04/2007 17:50

Chasingrabbits - I am right on your wavelength especially as they tend to ring during ER which is the most heinous of crimes!!

TheArmadillo · 01/04/2007 17:53

yes I see them (especially MIL) more than dp does and talk to her on the phone and similar.

She looks after ds one day a week and when I go to pick him up I usually stay at least a couple of hours chatting.

I get on really well with mine and dp's family. Its good. We all live in the same town and I couldn't imagine moving away.

TheArmadillo · 01/04/2007 17:57

and we are going on holiday again this year.

IT was fantastic last year.

I always imagined it must be hard not getting on with your dh/dp's family.

BizzyDint · 01/04/2007 17:58

yes. i see them more than he does.

snipersmum · 01/04/2007 18:07

I'm with chasingrabbits and idlemum - I never answer the phone to them and try hard not to be in the same room as them even when they come to see us. This year I have suggested that he takes the children to see them on his own this summer for a weekend and spares me the ordeal, which I think he is quite relieved about as it will spare him the earbashing on the way home in the car about how rude they are to me and about the children.

Eddas · 01/04/2007 18:16

I do, see MIL more often with DH. We rarely see FIL anyway, they split up about ten years ago. He's lovely just don't see him, infact we really should see him more!

ernest · 02/04/2007 07:36

love my in laws. Once or twice a year go to stay with them for a week, just me and the kids as dh can't get so much time off. Or they come to us, and dh still has to go to work, so it's me and in laws all day and just dh there in evening. But then we don't live in UK so it's not like we can pop over for a couple of hours. Lucky we get on so well really

lemonaid · 02/04/2007 07:48

Yes, I talk to his mother more than he does, and sometimes go with DS and without DH. She's about an hour-hour and a half away.

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