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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That would mean that you had some kind of traumatic experience with them.  Did they assault you?  Gang up to yell and scream at you?  Do something that triggered memories of an early assault or other traumatic event?  Were you in a car crash with them?

"It's not fun" is not the same as "it's traumatic."

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Yes, a lot of arguments and screaming at me or each other. They have never assaulted me. After they scream at me, they apologize and treat it as though nothing has happened. [/quote]

Still no.

PP said it well.

This sucks or isn't fun is no way equivalent to someone who has experienced trauma like rape or the horror of genocide or war.

OP here, yes you are right, if compared to this, it's not. I'm trying to clarify what I am feeling and give it a name.

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What you are feeling is what 90% of people feel with regards to their in laws.

It is the stress of having to adjust and suddenly become family with people you have no extended history with and who you might or might not like or even associate with in any other circumstance.  It is also the competitiveness a wife feels, usually with MIL, at trying to cut the husband from his herd so to speak and claim him for your own.

It is normal adjustment and stress.

And unless one or both parties are truly awful people, it usually fades over time and can even grow from stress and anxiety to fondness and (gasp) love [/quote]

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