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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi all,

Wondering if anybody here has simply stopped having contact with their spouse's family. In summary, DH has a very strained relationship with his family. In the past few years, the emotional and verbal abuse has now found its way to me. I am in therapy, and the therapist says that our kids' relationship with my husband's parents is up to my husband. And that I don't need to subject myself to their ways. We live out of the area, so it's not like we see them very often any way. But I'd like to just stop having any relationship with them at all, would prefer they go to my husband to talk to the kids, etc, and am just wondering if that's the case with anybody else, and how it is going.[/quote]

I have a SIL (she's married to my husband's brother) that doesn't get along with my in-laws and sees them rarely. My BIL/her husband brings the kids for visits and manages the relationship. My ILs don't speak very nicely about her, but they have never been hugely supportive of the marriage as a whole and the rest of us know the deal. I get along with her just fine and enjoy her company. I am thankful that she encourages and supports her husband bringing the kids to visit. It's allowed my kids to develop cousin relationships that would have been hard to do otherwise.[/quote]

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