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[quote=Anonymous]I don't have too much in common with my MIL but I like her a lot and we're very friendly. She's from a small town, poor working class parents and I'm from a bigger city with UMC parents. Sometimes I just don't know what to say, I feel like everything we do is dissimilar to them. We're traveling (they don't), working office jobs (they work in service jobs), redoing our house (they think we should be happy with never updating), relaxing on weekends (they work every weekend) etc. This might sound stupid, but it's just so tiring trying to watch what I say and trying not be myself. When I am myself, they think I'm out of touch with reality and don't understand them. Which is true, but I'm trying to be their friend. I even notice that I dress differently around them. I notice that DH (who thinks identically to me) downplays things around them too, especially the costs of things.

For instance, at a baby shower I gifted a bunch of my favorite baby books. One of them was a book from the 1950s that was my dad's favorite. I mentioned it to MIL and she said that her parents wouldn't have had time to read a book to their kids. Or when we traveled to England, they told us it's not safe overseas.

These are people I see monthly, but I just feel like whatever I say or do it's just not good enough. I'm sure they feel the same way.

Any advice?[/quote]

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