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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am home on maternity leave and my MIL is staying 3 weeks to help and FIL shows up the final week of the visit.

My husband and his family are "people of few words," and they are not super close. so I end up babbling some story or carrying the dinner conversations and questions All The Time. It is getting exhausting. Besides my portmortem exhaustion.
I tried out a couple meals where I deliberately said nothing and sure enough, no one else said anything either!
It's bizarre, I grew up in a family of four where there was always talking going on at the table, in the car, at the ballgame.  And certainly when we get together nowadays. But here, this week, it's like no one has a thought or opinion or whatever.

Can anyone relate??[/quote]

OMG!  I can.  I dread dinners with my IL's.  They don't make conversation and it drives me crazy.  My FIL is worse on his own.  It is like pulling teeth to get them to say anything and when they do it is usually such a mundane topic that I just want the whole thing to end.  They are nice people, really, but still.  [/quote]

HAHAHAHA.. With my IL's, only the sons in law that married in are allowed to talk - in that they are the only conversations that are entertained.  They are plenty nice, but they are not the best conversation holders by any stretch.  MIL has issues with her parents and her jumping when men speak - so it's kind of effed up.  Also, MIL will only do outside activities with the sons in law that married in - not with her own sons, etc. Clearly, she has some real issues that are far beyond me :) Sorry, can't help her!  LOL. [/quote]

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