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Clicky Poll #1
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Miles (6 year old Maine C00n mix), Boots (5 year old Lab mix), Darla (4 year old GSD/Collie mix), Frankie (1.5 year old DSH mix), Peanut (15 months old - 09/11), and Bean (arriving Feb 2013).
Miles (6 year old Maine C00n mix), Boots (5 year old Lab mix), Darla (4 year old GSD/Collie mix), Frankie (1.5 year old DSH mix), Peanut (15 months old - 09/11), and Bean (arriving Feb 2013).
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Re: Clicky Poll #1
I'm also special
I don't love hanging around FIL because he's awkward and way too uptight (and uber religious). His wife is nice and I like her (her family is crazy though). My MIL passed away a couple years ago but I liked her quirkyness.
I'm sorry to hear that, QBert.
I said SS. FIL gets on my nerves for various reasons - which drives me nuts, because occasionally I can see some of that in DH - especially when we're around them, which means I really don't like visiting them or having them visit. :P MIL is ok, but she gets on my nerves for really small reasons. Overall, she's a really good person.
SS - I love my ILs, but there are issues. MIL is crazycakes and FIL is in denial about it.
They were about the worst house guests ever when they visited after O's birth. They arrived when he was just a few days old, only held him about 2 times each (in two weeks), only played with S when he brought books to them. They cleared the table once. MIL always offered to help clean up just as I put the last dish in the dishwasher. They couldn't manage to keep their pharmacy's-worth of medications and creams out of S's reach. I won't even go into MILs unsafe behavior towards S. And DH took time off work to take them around and see the sights, arranged for them to go on a weekend trip to Paris, etc. Hypochondriac FIL decided the mushrooms in our yard were making him sick. They left a week early (thankfully) and then FIL called and told DH off (with profanity) saying they felt like prisoners in our home.
Oh my goodness. A prison where people feed you, clean up after you, try to have polite conversations with you, show you the sights and provide you with beautiful grandchildren. How awful. They will never be staying with us again and we haven't talked to them since the phone call.
We love them, but they have made a series of choices in their life that have led them to become unsociable, awkward people. And add in MILs mental instability...they are not our favorite people to spend time with. It is sad.