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[quote=Anonymous]Different perspective here, but my in laws are divorced and seeing other people.  They have been divorced for maybe 15 years now, but they obviously have kids together.  My mother in law still feels close to my father in law's parents and she calls them to check in every now and then and since everyone is on Facebook, they are Facebook friends who post stuff for each other.  I have been around my father in law and his girlfriend and my father in law's parents (my grandparents in law?) and the grandparents will ask about my mother in law or will talk to my husband or me about my mother in law.  It never struck me as odd, though I admit to never thinking about how this made the new girlfriend feel, because everyone still considers each other family even though there was a divorce.  My mother in law strongly feels like she is still a part of the family because she went through many things with her in laws - family deaths, weddings, having my grandparents in law watch her kids (sometimes for a week or so when she was married to FIL so they could go on vacation).  Though my in laws do NOT like each other at all, they still feel that family connection with each other's families.  As I mentioned, this seemed natural to me when people have shared so much.  I doubt very much that my FIL has told his parents the reasons for the divorce (not cheating - just they don't like each other and my MIL seems to annoy my FIL to a huge degree).

I never even thought I should censor my discussions about my MIL in front of FIL's girlfriends.  Perhaps this is not polite?  Honestly, it just seems natural to discuss the whole family.[/quote]

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