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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in some ways, but not others.  I encourage my DH to invite his parents and sister and niece to visit us, more than he would normally invite them (which is almost never).  But, gah, I can barely stand them while they are here.  His mother is the most nervous person in the world, and is anxious about everything, so she literally stands the whole time and hovers over all of us - mostly the baby now - saying "Careful!!!!" three hundred times an hour.  Plus she chain smokes so she reeks.  Any conversation is really grating, because basically anything we say she responds with, "OHMYGOD!  That sounds awful!"  My FIL is less grating, but he's completely sedentary so he just sits in a chair, which is okay, and he really loves our LO, so that's nice, but most of his comments to my DH are disparaging or mildly verbally abusive so that's not really something I want around our child much.  So, once they are here, I can't wait for them to be gone after an hour or so.

I certainly hope that I will have a better relationship with my children's spouses, if that ever happens.  But I hope I am better company![/quote]

See my comment right above yours about letting DH take the lead. Are these visits making you or DH happy?  Are they improving your relationship with your ILs?[/quote]

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