Inlaws

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Does anyone elses inlaws hate you talking about your family?
My partner's sister and bil shut me down every time I talk about my kids,my sis, my extended family on my side. It's like they hate me having a family that isn't theirs iynwim? It's bafflingly to me because I love hearing about their extended family, but every time I bring up my family's achievement's what's going on, just normal chat they shut me down, talk over me, it's bloody bizarre to me and very off-putting. I sit there listening to their families chat but whenever I try to talk about my family it's either crickets or talk over me! Anyone else have this ?

Could they be jealous, are they being weirdly competitive in some way?

Yes, it's a constant stream of her who married him who had the car, the Yorkshire cousins x3 removed, she used to take you to Sunday School but you haven't visited her since [meaningful look...]

I'm rarely if ever asked how I am, but it pales in comparison with the collective wince if I mention my adventurous dad, successful sister, brother's young family or mum's lovely garden. I think my MIL is annoyed not to have grounds to disapprove of us, so edits us out of history!

Yes.
The sheer tension when my family was mentioned! Once.dd said something about an aunt's of mines beautiful house, mil looked absolutely disgusted and shot me a filthy look.

So bloody happy others have this! My in-laws are the competition demon type, definitely. Think, they have to have a name regardless what it is, clothes,bags, suitcases!
I turned up last joint holiday and had a , very gorgeous, Primark towel! Before sil knew it was primarni she was gushing about it!

My in-laws just talk about themselves a lot and often change subjects when I mention about my family but bizarrely they seem to be only obsessed with my sil a lot which they make it so obvious by gushing over her. I think they secretly wish they had sil as their dil instead of me (my brothers wife). I say kind things about my brothers wife though and say to them that I hope my BIL who is single (dh's brother) marries someone like my brothers wife which they say "oh I wish" and little do they know what kind of bitch my brothers wife can be when she acts up although she has never had a problem with me or my parents as we are super careful with boundaries.
Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for as my brothers wife will whip the shit out of my in-laws if she ever married into them and put them in their place which is something I've been longing to do but at least I won't have to get my hands dirty. My mil is extremely jealous of me as she's made it very obvious many times and I tend to just smile and carry on.

I rarely talk about my sisters to my in laws. They met them at the wedding but live in another country so don't know them at all.

I loved my in-laws, but they not without their faults, and they used to believe that everyone else in the world came from a dysfunctional family.

Another! My sis other half is having a big birthday bash, 50th
It involves staying away for the night, £70 for us, shared house absolutely beautiful, think coastal, massive house with his fam as well. We are definitely looking forward to it because we would never get to afford that ourselves. Told the jealous in-laws and got; oh it's ridiculous to pay that much! Have they thought of the kids! ( It's a lighthouse) it's not safe , it's just selfish, it's not what we would do, etc