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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 22:14:37 GMT -5
So my future ex and I were dating 9 mos before he proposed and I stupidly said yes. We were engaged 2 years before the wedding so I kind of thought that made up for the early engagement.
Anyhoo, when he called to tell his mother we were engaged I had never met his family. He put hos mother on speaker phone. The first words out of her mouth:
"Is she PREGNANT?!"
Lol. Joke's on her, though. Getting pregnant is my worst fear (pregnancy/childbirth phobia and I enjoy sleep and acting like I'm still 27 at 40-something too much. Plus money, I could never afford to have the lifestyle I would want for them and my ex couldn't have supported us so I could stay home with them like I'd want, with ADHD full time work is stressful enough, I could not parent on top of that).
Also I used to "joke" that I should introduce him as "my first husband." Foreshadowing I guess, I started saying it after our sex life died and I stopped saying that after it became a foregone conclusion.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 22:17:57 GMT -5
When my dad told his mother he was getting married, her first words were "Do you have to?"
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Post by bballgirl on Jul 3, 2016 10:09:18 GMT -5
When my dad told his mother he was getting married, her first words were "Do you have to?" Sounds like you had a cool grandma, that sounds like something I would say. |
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Post by itsjustus on Jul 22, 2016 13:00:10 GMT -5
When I told my dad I was getting married, he jokingly asked the same thing. "Do you *have* to??
Awkward silence......
Uh....yeah....oops.
(further irony. My oldest brothers birthday is 3 months after my parents anniversary date, same year....oops, indeed!)
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Post by jgb on Jan 31, 2017 14:27:47 GMT -5
Shortly after we got married, my wife and I visited her mother in another country. She has a huge house...3 stories, umpteen bedrooms. We were staying on the top floor in a room that had not be used in a while. Brother in law was there too and was in charge of getting the room ready before we arrived. My wife and I both like to read before sleeping and, when she turned on her bedside light, nothing..no bulb. She heads downstairs to get one and I hear what sounds like a cat fight going on between her, MIL & BIL. I don't understand a word, of course. Their native tongue and all that. She comes back with a bulb and a funny look on her face. Her mother was upset at her brother for missing this detail. That seemed harsh to me and I said so. My wife replied that, no, I didn't get it. MIL logic was that we were obviously about to get busy and the missing light bulb killed it, and now she was never going to be a grandmother.
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Post by shamwow on Feb 4, 2017 10:52:16 GMT -5
My mother in law is very wise woman. Honestly after I told my wife I wanted a divorce, I actually sought her advice as much as my own parents.
She is a hell of a woman.
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Post by GeekGoddess on Feb 4, 2017 16:41:27 GMT -5
My mother in law is very wise woman. Honestly after I told my wife I wanted a divorce, I actually sought her advice as much as my own parents. She is a hell of a woman. Wow - that's a good thing, something to be grateful for. I never had a MIL. My FIL was alive a short time after Ex & I got married. Ex is much older than me, though, and his dad died a few years after our wedding. Since he lived pretty far away, I didn't get much interaction with him but I liked him a lot when we visited him. Ex & I had lived together a long time when we decided to wed. He called his Dad to tell him and Max says: put her on the phone. He tells me: Are you sure you want to do this? I mean, being married is a lot different than just shacking up together! (I told him yes) I told my Mom this story and she still giggles about it - - - every time she would tell the story, she would just howl. (My parents never met my FIL - it wasn't that kind of wedding) |
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Post by obobfla on Feb 4, 2017 20:42:20 GMT -5
I love my mother-in-law so much that I think I stay with my wife because of her. She always takes my side.
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Post by greatcoastal on Feb 4, 2017 21:07:10 GMT -5
My MIL seems to treat me with respect and we get along on a whole different level than the rest of her family. Even my STBX and her sister seemed jealous of it. She has been shunned by her husband and three kids, my STBX being the youngest. I wonder what insights, and support I would get from her if we were to have some one on one talks? Then part of me doesn't even want to get near another dangerous trap!
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