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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of drama.  Absolutely no help, even in an emergency.   [/quote]
Same here, sadly.[/quote]

Us, too.  Please, tell me, what's it like to have functional, financially and emotionally stable family?[/quote]

We have functional, financially and emotionally stable family who lives across the country but we visit with every 2-3 months.  Sometimes DH's parents come for 3-4 days and the FIL flies home to go back to work and MIL stays for a total of two weeks.  They're super helpful (a smidge into gender stereotypes).

- FIL will fix, hang, etc., anything.  He's down for any household project. 
- MIL will take the kids to the farmer's market
- One time they came a week before Halloween and when I came home from work MIL was sitting on a drop cloth spread out in the living room with both DD's stripped to their diapers, scooping out pumpkins and making a huge mess.  I would never have done that with them. 
- FIL will do tons of yard work
- They will read the same stories four times in a row
- MIL will bake breakfast muffins with the kids
- They clean up after themselves and encourage the kids to follow our rules
- They try to pay for groceries (we don't let them) and will pay for a couple of meals out[/quote]

That sounds amazing.  You're incredibly lucky.[/quote]

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