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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^What seems to be missing in your very reasonable explanation is that those in-laws whose quirky ways are difficult to understand happen to be the parents of the husband.

It is not exactly like they are strangers from no where. How do you think the wife would feel if her parents visited unexpectedly and the husband told them they were not welcome and should leave pronto?

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That's not a problem with my explanation (which was only explaining why people seem more irked by their in-laws than their own parents), you're just getting to a different issue. In a marriage, even if you don't fully understand or agree with the other person's upset, it's generally important/valuable to take as fact the other person's upset and to try to find a compromise. So if you are the one with the parents who drop by unannounced and it bothers your spouse, that's something you need to respect and accommodate even if it doesn't bother you. If someone isn't willing to do that for their spouse, or if one spouse is so wildly irrational that they are irked by even the most obviously normal/acceptable things, that's a problem with the marriage, not the parents/in laws.[/quote]

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