Any Special Summer Plans Or Trips?

ClassicRockr said:
Really, there are spouses that don't get along with their spouses parents? Wonder when that starts? I mean, when a couple get married, isn't most of the family, that can come, are there?

Not to change this thread, but now I wonder how many spouses don't get along with the other spouses parents.
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OMG Rockr!! Are you serious? Where the heck do you live?
This is common, common knowledge that most women, ‘especially’ clash BADLY with the mother in law.
Its no wonder you get picked on so much cause some of your way of thinking is like something from TOY STORY:lofl:
 

Keesha said:
OMG Rockr!! Are you serious? Where the heck do you live?
This is common, common knowledge that most women, ‘especially’ clash BADLY with the mother in law.
Its no wonder you get picked on so much cause some of your way of thinking is like something from TOY STORY:lofl:
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Never really had a problem with my MIL, especially when she moved out of the apartment that my wife and I was sharing with her. IOW, when I met my wife, she was sharing a 2-bedroom with her mom. Biggest problem I had with her mom, she absolutely couldn't understand why her daughter had to change some to get along with the rodeo people I knew. She said to me, "why can't they just accept her the way she is?" and I said, "it just isn't going to happen". Wife changed, IOW, learned a lot about rodeo, definitely "looked the part", and was totally accepted by them. Other than the thing about rodeo, got along with MIL great.

After we moved from So California to Colorado, we'd fly to Las Vegas and meet with wife's mom and family. They drove in from So Calif. Wife's father had passed away many years before I met her.

Another thing, my wife never "clashed" with my mom and dad, because they were both deceased.
 

Any special plans or trips for the summer?



Hmmmm, difficult one this......A trip up to the Outer Hebrides to swim with the Mermaids would be nice.
 
My parents always got along well with their in-laws and my husband's parents also got along well with theirs. Likewise, hubs and I have both had smooth relationships with in-laws (after a slightly bumpy start with my MIL, which we resolved well before hubs and I married). We now have three children in-law and get along great with all of them. Our children all have very good relationships with their in-laws. In fact, hubs and I are extremely friendly with all of our children in-law's parents and see them separately, meaning that we see each other outside of events that include our children.

Our family tends to be very inclusive. After our first child was married, her in-laws were invited (and flew out) for her brother's marriage, and both of those sets came to our third child's wedding. DH & I have also been invited to their children's weddings (and happily traveled to attend).

I'm truly sorry for people who have difficult relationships with in-laws. I've had friends who were ruthlessly tortured by unpleasant MILs. To use a 60s expression, what a drag.

I've had some serious challenges and problems in this lifetime (haven't we all?), but I was blessed with an easy marriage, relatively easy children (though I wouldn't have said that the night before science projects were due), and terrific in-laws.

Some of my own family members? Not so easy...
 
ClassicRockr said:
Never really had a problem with my MIL, especially when she moved out of the apartment that my wife and I was sharing with her. IOW, when I met my wife, she was sharing a 2-bedroom with her mom. Biggest problem I had with her mom, she absolutely couldn't understand why her daughter had to change some to get along with the rodeo people I knew. She said to me, "why can't they just accept her the way she is?" and I said, "it just isn't going to happen". Wife changed, IOW, learned a lot about rodeo, definitely "looked the part", and was totally accepted by them. Other than the thing about rodeo, got along with MIL great.

After we moved from So California to Colorado, we'd fly to Las Vegas and meet with wife's mom and family. They drove in from So Calif. Wife's father had passed away many years before I met her.

Another thing, my wife never "clashed" with my mom and dad, because they were both deceased.
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Well this is good that you had such s great relationship with your mother in law. That is a lot different. I’m sorry that both your parents had passed before your wife could meet them. That’s actually quite unfortunate. It also goes to show that you don’t know what that relationship would have been like. Maybe great.

Even witthout having the experience though due to circumstances beyond your control, surely you’ve met many men and women in your almost 70 years of living and they can’t all have had fabulous relationships with the in laws.
If this is the case then I’d have to conclude that you’ve known a lot of good liars in your lifetime cause that’s NOT the norm.

And that’s not to say there aren’t great mother in law relationships. I get along fine with my in laws. Mother in law is very difficult to tolerate. They actually love me but that’s why I stay home while my husband visits them. My sister in laws feel the same way on that side of the family. One has to adopt strategies that work.

My mother hates my brothers wife and it’s actually a shame since she’s such a beautiful woman who had the only two grandchildren my parents ever had. It’s sad actually.

From talking with many other people though, in laws are often an issue so I don’t feel so alone in my analogy
 
Now, back to trips to Disney World, Bahama’s Cruises, Yellowstone National Park and other places, like a visit to Colorado and Wyoming😊
 
hollydolly said:
ooooh I'd love to visit Hawaii one day Oldman... but it's very expensive from here...Congrats to your Grand-daughter on her Exam results, she has a very kind Grandad..


Holly: If I was allowed to share my free air passes with friends, I would gladly give you two, so that your husband and you could visit Hawaii. It is very beautiful, but it's better once you get to see the real Hawaii and some of the other islands. For those people that stay just on Oahu or at Waikiki, they are missing some of the best parts of our 50th state. Kauai is my favorite island, although Maui is a lot of fun as well.
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Keesha said:
Well this is good that you had such s great relationship with your mother in law. That is a lot different. I’m sorry that both your parents had passed before your wife could meet them. That’s actually quite unfortunate. It also goes to show that you don’t know what that relationship would have been like. Maybe great.

Even witthout having the experience though due to circumstances beyond your control, surely you’ve met many men and women in your almost 70 years of living and they can’t all have had fabulous relationships with the in laws.
If this is the case then I’d have to conclude that you’ve known a lot of good liars in your lifetime cause that’s NOT the norm.

And that’s not to say there aren’t great mother in law relationships. I get along fine with my in laws. Mother in law is very difficult to tolerate. They actually love me but that’s why I stay home while my husband visits them. My sister in laws feel the same way on that side of the family. One has to adopt strategies that work.

My mother hates my brothers wife and it’s actually a shame since she’s such a beautiful woman who had the only two grandchildren my parents ever had. It’s sad actually.

From talking with many other people though, in laws are often an issue so I don’t feel so alone in my analogy
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I didn't meet my mother-in-law until we had been married five years. The last time my late husband saw her, she told him she'd rather see him dead and buried and laying in his coffin than marrying me. She boycotted the wedding and kept presents that had been sent to their house for us. I was always referred to as the "Whore of Babylon" and supposedly only marrying him because I was pregnant and wanted his GI insurance (sure, all $10,000 of it); I must have been carrying an elephant because it was 18 months before I gave birth.

After that, we had a "civil" relationship for about five years until she died. I always sent school pictures, Christmas cards, mother's day cards, etc. and we'd see them about once a year.

The Spousal Equivalent's mother thinks I walk on water. I call her "Mom" and love her dearly.
 
In addition to a road trip to Ohio, I think we need to take a little trip up to see the Grand Canyon. I've been there, but my SO hasn't. It about 4 hours away, so its a day trip for us.
 
To get back to your question, Rockr, we'll do a little RV camping, but mostly stay close to home so that summer vacationers can enjoy their opportunities. We schedule our big vacations during "shoulder seasons" aka spring and fall when most kids are in school and crowds are light.
 
jujube said:
Don't the mermaids have to wear wetsuits up there? Imagine otherwise they'd freeze their...uh...scales off.
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'Freeze their...uh...scales off?'........No chance dear Lady, those Mermaids up there are hardy girl/fish, they eat haggis and drink 'Irn Bru'.....and when I go there I eat lots of porridge.....ha ha ha
 

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