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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's hard if you've grown up with a fairly normal family to imagine what it's like to live with mental illness.   My family and all my parents friends were emotionally healthy.   Marrying into dh's family has been quite the eye-opener.  [/quote]

Majorly eye opening. My (birth) family's pretty normal. We're not perfect, but we're pretty ok. Two of my siblings' spouses and their families/ILs are also pretty normal. Not perfect, but also pretty easy to deal with. Ditto for DH's family. But one of my brother's IL's - whooboy they are crazy. Drama drama drama all the time. Every since they got married, it's been sad to see him get involved in SIL's crazy family drama. It's exhausting.

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If there is a happy situation, SIL will try to pee on it.  She is abusive and manipulative.  It really is exhausting.  Unfortunately, MIL is the same.  MIL is very depressed, and not one for "happy times".  Bragging rights, yes (who attended what); happy times, no (actual happy moments during that attendance).  Do they realize how predictable they really are?  DH enables them, he just wants their approval, all these years later.  Never. Going. To. Happen.

I do everything I can not to shake them silly when I see them: "I know what you are doing.  Just stop."  Ugh.

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