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BTW... in a weird attempt to self improve, would any of you mind pointing out what sounded "superior" on my part?  I'd like to think of us as being different, but if I'm coming off as superior here, maybe I'm coming off that way in person.  I don't want to offend her in any way.  [/quote]

You want to know what sounded superior?  Others have mentioned it, but maybe your OP could have read something like this instead:

SIL does not like me and I do not particularly care for her. We keep a respectful communication, but sometimes, I swear, I feel like she would spit on me if she could. We would not be friends if we were not family, but sometimes, I feel as if I'm being judged by her because I'm not as "free spirited" as she is. I know I should not really care, but I do. Here are some of our "lifestyle" differences.

She puts her kids to bed after 11pm. 
I put my kids to bed at 8:15.

how about:  I'm too strict with my kids' bedtime and she lets her kids go to sleep when they become natrually tired.

She gives her kids juice and soda. 
Mine drink one juice/day and then water.

how about:  she is less restrictive than I am about what the kids can drink.

She rarely cooks. 
I cook 4-5 times a week.

She likes to go out to eat and I'm a homebody.

She has mounds of laundry waiting to be folded. 
I fold and put away.

She doesn't make laundry a priority, while I tend to obsess about it.

She gives her kids fast food regularly. 
I do fast food as a last resort.

Again - she takes her kids out to eat while I'm more or a homebody.

She goes out and comes home late (3-4am, MIL watches kids for her). 
I do not go to bars or clubs (I'm 37... I just think I'm too old!)

She goes out and lets her kids bond more with their grandma.

Her fridge has (honestly) 4 open bottles of the same brand of mustard. 2 opened bottles of the same BBQ sauce and 3 opened jars of mayo. I just saw this tonight, so it is stuck in my brain. I just remember thinking "I would go crazy if I had all that opened shit in my refrigerator"

Honestly, I don't even know what to say about this one.

[b]Luckily, I don't have to see her every day[/b], but we live in very close proximity and I'm married to her brother, so we see each other enough. So, I'm wondering, is anyone else extremely different from their in-laws, and if so, how?

and what about Luckily, SHE doesn't have to see ME everyday.

That would be a start to how you don't sound like your superior to her - that you see that there is a good side and a bad side to both your lifestyle as well as hers. [/quote]

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