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How well do u get on with ur brother in laws/sisters in law?
U watch TV etc and there is everyone getting on like 1 big happy family and that puts pressure on, you think that you should be like that, however in reality our family is not like that. The wife gets on fine with my family, however I can't get on with her brothers. Sure I have tried and I have just about gave up, they are totally uninterested. I mean you talk to them they either just ignore you or give you 1 word answers. If I'm honest they are total planks, My wife says we are to alike to get on, we are not alike, sure we are shy but at least I make an effort.
The only thing I can think of is that I'm a protestant and they are catholic (I live in Northern Ireland) and I'm sure I don't need to go into that story
13 Answers
- 1 decade ago
My SIL thinks everyone is there to service her. She moved to Ireland from UK. She thinks we have a bottomless money pit just for her events and expects everyone to keep coughing up for flights, hotels, car hire, whatever just to see her. When she comes here she doesn't have any costs but we have to keep forking out if we go there. Anyway to cut a long story short she has just had another baby and needless to say we have congratulated her and sent things for the baby but we will not be taking time off work, children out of school, use up holidays etc to go and see her (all of which we have done in the past without any gratitude). The MIL keeps asking if we will be going any time soon (she does have a bottomless pit to service her daughter with). Neither of them seems to be able to grasp husband is self employed, works 14 hour days, have limited time off together as a family as a result, have unpredictable cash flow and the last thing we want to do is go over there and blow our money and family holiday time on a drama queen. Sometimes you just have to accept it for what it is and not worry about changing people.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Don't get on with my husband's side of the family (his brothers and their partners) only because I don't see them socially so we have nothing in common. My mother in law and stepfather in law are the best thing since sliced bread though.
My sisters are not married, my brother is married but he lives in Scotland so we don't see them as well.
It's great living in Ireland - people have to arrange a visit, not just turn up!
- 1 decade ago
I get on well with my mother and father in law but don't like my brother in law at all. He is a freeloader who always comes to the house eating our food and drinking and complaing about how everybody is an idiot. He lived with us for two months and drove us insane, he finally moved out but now the guy he lives with has kicked him out and he wants to move in with us again so if you only have to see them at social functions you are lucky my BIL just walks into our house without knocking and eats all our food. We have a house with three bedrooms but only have a bed in one room, whenever people stay we have to sleep on the couch, they think that wer are really mean to not buy a bed but the reason we can't is if we do he will just slowly move back in....
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- 1 decade ago
Some people just suck. I don't know. I get along really well with brothers-in-law. How long have you been married? Some things just take time. But you should definitely keep trying.
- 1 decade ago
It sounds like it is a Religious problem. Sorry but given where you live etc, in an ideal world we would live and let live, but unfortunately Catholics think they are the closest to God, and everybody else are to be looked down on. Sorry.
Source(s): I am a Catholic, living in R.O.I. - Angela MLv 71 decade ago
I huv one sister-in-law, and she is terrific. I don't see her as often as I wid like as she lives in Wales and I'm stuck up in Bonnie Scotland. When we dae hook up, it's like gabbin' tae yer soulmate. As a strange sideline tae this answer, we found oot that we are exactly the same age, well, I'm forty minutes older!! Absolutely nae Idae whit religion she is, it's never been an issue, I'm jist chuffed tae bits tae know her!!!!!
- ?Lv 45 years ago
No i does not be her homie if she is talking approximately my brother to me, as a count number of fact i'd tell her to not talk with me approximately my brother until eventually she has something intense high quality to assert
- OracleLv 51 decade ago
Used to get on really badly, but now get on really well almost like brothers and sisters.
- 1 decade ago
i dnt like my sister-in-law.her and my bro have had two wonderful children. sometimes I will walk my brothers and sisters to the park and she wont let her children come. one of them is 6 and the other almost three. i am very responsible for children and take great care of them but its like she doesn't trust me. it really annoys me... after all i am there auntie. shes too protective over them. yet, she will let her drug addict sisters take them to felixtowe and the rest of it.
neway, i think some people dnt like them through jealousy, they dnt like having there bros and sis' taken away.