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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you're not looking at big picture things and instead focusing on small picture things--details like mustard and laundry are things that just don't matter in the big picture of things.  You seem like you are judging someone on very superficial, dumb things that are just lifestyle preferences.  I don't think from your description that your sister in law sounds "free spirited."  She is just making different choices based on different priorities/lifestyle preferences, and you are judging her based on those.  I wouldn't want to be judged by what's in my fridge or on the state of my laundry, because these things are "small potatoes" that really don't matter, compared to big things like how she treats others, considerateness, etc.  I am different from many of my friends for a variety of reasons, and while I might briefly notice that their house is much messier than mine or that they only eat frozen dinners, what does that matter in the big picture of the friendship?  The way you are judging your SIL makes you seem very superior because you're saying that your lifestyle choices and preferences are superior to hers, and that makes you seem very petty.

Anyhow, I am as different from my in-laws as it can get and we also don't get along.  But these differences/not getting along are because of big reasons, such as the fact that my FIL is an absentee father who shows no interest in his own son and who has only visited us once in 10 years, not that he only vacations in Florida and only eats at Applebee's.[/quote]

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