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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting. 
Soon after I met STBDH he got estranged from his mother (he cut most contact, for multiple reasons). His dad (divorced with his mom since he was 4) lived thousands of miles away and had a reputation of a man who is really into giving, family values, etc. What's not to like?
Luckily, I still have MIL absent from my life. However FIL moved closer to us at one point and suddenly became a total taker - started asking his older son (my H) for money, H always caved, FIL then transferred some of it to the benefit of his younger son from his second marriage, etc etc. Wasn't pretty. 
Luckily we moved away but I had several occasions to get disappointed in FIL big time. In short, he pretends to be a family man but really does not care about anyone but him or his younger son (in a specific way which set this young man up for failure), he is trying to milk my H, etc. 
Overall, a sad and non pretty story. I try to stay away from all relatives on H's side. His grandma is very old fashioned in that she thinks a woman should serve her man on the surface, but still thinks that men are stupid, if you know what I mean. [/quote]

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