do your parents bother with/get on with your IL's?

[surprisenumber3]

Just wondering really!

Ours have met each other once, when we'd been together 10 years! (We're not married so no wedding for them to meet at) It was polite and everyone got on OK, but although they live much nearer to each other than they do to us, I don't think they're going to see each other voluntarily or be mates.

They are very alike though, our mums especially are extremely similar. When we had them all meet up it was in a big city to go to a restaurant for lunch... everyone got lost, everyone flapped, everyone couldn't find their way back to the car park - it was like herding cats.

Berrie my family feel the same. Lucky for us so does DH .

'they have their GCs in common'

Yes, but it's really not much to base a relationship on, is it? I mean, it's like if you have two really good friends, very different in tastes, interests, personality and behaviour. They live hundreds of miles apart. Sure, they both love you to bits but why on earth should they like each other?

Mine get on really well.... They don't see each other often living hundreds of miles apart but we always spend Christmas/dc's birthdays all together. It's nice, particularly for my in laws who are very elderly.

Mine get on surprisingly well despite having very little in common as far as I can see. They email each other now and then and my Ils went to my Gran's funeral.

My Ils were brilliant with my Gran when she was ill with cancer last year - they went to see her all the time, took her out etc. They're really lovely people.

They don't see each other all the time as they live a long way apart but I would certainly consider that they got on.

My parents are still very friendly with my ex's parents (we were together 15 years ago when I was 15!!) and go there for dinner etc. My parents are pretty sociable people though so I guess that's why.

My in laws are really hard work.
Hardly a word or opinion to offer about anything.
But my parents get on OK with them,although as a rule only see them if they have to!
Even my hubby (their son) finds them really hard to get on with!

My parents are very sociable, gregarious people and have made huge efforts with my pil. otoh it's more than mil can do to keep a sneer off her face every time she seems them. As a result my parents think they've got some sort of social disorder.

dh and I just try and make sure that the t'wain shall never meet

Sorry, my parents think pil have some sort of social disorder. They're confident in their own social skills!

my mum is irrationally jealous of my mil - she wants my boys to herself! And my mil is a loon. So no, they dont get on.

They get on quite well with them though I know that my parents think that pil can be a bit odd and I suspect the same appiles back too. However they are more than happy to meet up and enjoy family occasions together and mum and mil chat on the phone.

They have never met.

My parents and my sister's ILs don't bother with one another any more - my sister's ILs did bother a bit at the beginning of my sister's marriage, but it fizzled out.

No

Mine are all going away together for 2 days golfing and wine drinking...