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[quote=Anonymous]I am all for spending as little time as possible with in-laws you don't particularly like, but in this case, it sounds like you need to start finding things to like about them, OP. I don't know if you're able to step back and look at your own family and ask yourself who, if they weren't blood relatives, would you not click with the way you don't click with your in-laws? If they're not horrible, then you should start looking at each of them and finding something about them you like.

I had this issue with my ex's family, and it took me a while to realize that it was up to me to change my attitude and to make it work, because they were the blood relatives of my husband and child. I found I could talk gardening and (out of boredom) do jigsaw puzzles with my MIL. She was a sweet woman, but we never had a real conversation. Recognizing that she was family and finding a way to make being around her bearable was important. Eventually I came to enjoy those times with her.

Sometimes we're too caught up in seeing what's not there to realize we have to work with what's there.
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