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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
So it is okay for your parents to live with you but not DH's?
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This is pretty common if conversations with friends are any indication. Not specifically that "my parents are ok, his are not" but rather "one set of parents are ok, others are not."

Sometimes there are poor relationships or simply enough differences in being that living together would be a terrible mistake. Within my own family, I could live with my mother but not with my father. Assuming my mother and father wish to continue living with each other, they cannot live in my house. My husbands parents could live with us.

I have a friend who moved her parents in and almost immediately started looking for another alternative because she wanted to preserve the relationship she had with them and she could see if they had to live under the same roof their relationship would be destroyed.[/quote]

I originally made the top comment. I think the PP's response is spot on. DH doesn't want to live with his parents, either, but is willing to live with mine. It's all about the close relationship we have with my parents and not as much with his. I would live with DH's father, but not his stepmother (who doesn't exactly speak to us for whatever reason, she has her issues). DH's mom & stepdad march to the beat of a different drummer and living together would ruin our relationship with them. [/quote]

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