Just interested to know how often you and your kids see your ILs?

My FIL lives with us so we see him basically everyday. DS adores him and I certainly have a soft spot for him, he is definitely like a Dad to me.

MIL we see once every 2-3 weeks. I'm happy with this arrangement...I love her but she's crazy laugh

Now my SIL I see maybe once or twice a month. They are all over at the moment and she just doesn't stop talking!!!! She will just talk and talk and talk and start telling you a story completely unrelated to what the current conversation is up to. I sat with her for about 4 hours and I am exhausted. Even when I was on my phone she was still blabbing away. If I had to see her anymore than that I would go batsh!t crazy!!

I do love my ILs a lot but i think only because I only see the crazy ones occasionally.

Do you think how much you see your ILs affects your relationship?

My FIL lives in Bali with his Indonesian wife who is half his age grin so I've only met him 4 times and my MIL lives 4hrs away from us thank god because I hate that woman laugh laugh We see her maybe once or twice a year and she never calls to ask about the kids or anything... Her loss I say lol

DH would probably like to see his dad more but he doesn't like his mum much so I don't think he's bothered... So nope doesn't affect any relationships!

We usually see them once a week, sometimes more...I think that is enough wink ...they don't roll eyes

We see mil on average about once a week and fil about once a month. That works fine for us

They live 8 hours drive away so not often smile

probably once a month - MIL and BIL/SIL live in the same town and FIL is on the way to that town so we tend to visit them all on the same day.
BUT my MIL calls me up atleast once a week to talk about abosolutly nothing and she calls my DH prob ever 2nd day if not every day (I don't think either of us have actually had a convo with her about anything on the phone, its all her talking and us going mmmmhmmmm. but she's just lonely)

Not often, they live a 5 hr drive from us and are both unwell so can't really travel and we can't afford to go down there(chch) often. We're going down next weekend and it'll be the first time the inlaws have met our 8 month old. mil rings once every couple of weeks

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Way too much if you ask me wink at least one or twice a week and that is if I am lucky. My IL are very controlling and try to be involved in every decision we make regarding our children. We have to put them in their places every now and then because my FIL believes woman should be seen not heard LOL well i am definitely not one of those women so we tend to butt heads a lot hahahahahaha

Kind of too much I think wink they only live around the corner too......I swear my life is exactly like 'everybody loves raymond' imagine that

My mil we try not to see her & i don't want to see her but hubby says we have too because she can/will turn nasty on us.

FIL we see him one every 2 weeks, he doesn't like people at all.

We haven't seen sil & bil since xmas eve (everyone here knows what happened) and i now very happy about that.

Just interested to know how often you and your kids see your ILs?

My FIL lives with us so we see him basically everyday. DS adores him and I certainly have a soft spot for him, he is definitely like a Dad to me.

MIL we see once every 2-3 weeks. I'm happy with this arrangement...I love her but she's crazy laugh

Now my SIL I see maybe once or twice a month. They are all over at the moment and she just doesn't stop talking!!!! She will just talk and talk and talk and start telling you a story completely unrelated to what the current conversation is up to. I sat with her for about 4 hours and I am exhausted. Even when I was on my phone she was still blabbing away. If I had to see her anymore than that I would go batsh!t crazy!!

I do love my ILs a lot but i think only because I only see the crazy ones occasionally.

Do you think how much you see your ILs affects your relationship?

I really don't mind if I see mil at all she don't like me. {Fine by me I've tried to be nice but she just a negitave nasty person}

As far as my fil I love him { unfortunaty he lives in sydney don't see him much however I'm always calling him} would love to see him everyday his amazin man

we go to the inlaws most sundays or mondays so usually once a week we see most of them then and they stop in ocasionally when they are in the area

I am very lucky to have in laws that I love & they love me smile we see them atleast once sometimes upto 3 times a week. My BIL lives interstate & we get along really well too, he and DH are really close so we hope he moves home soon. At the moment we see him a couple of times a year.

My MIL lives 4 hours away. We will see them approx once every 3-4months or so...

If she calls looking for DH she will talk to me.
BIL just moved to sydney with his fiancee, he calls his brother (DH) alot maybe once a week to talk) Noone likes his fiancee, she threatned MIL once.

SIL still lives at home and so do two other BIL.

FIL - well DH hasn't spoken to him in about 10 years I think... He has another family and wouldn't even know he is a father let alone married. Wouldn't care less too... Which makes me a bit sad.

I wish my IL's lived closer, they are in the North Island, we are in the South. They still haven't met our youngest DS who is 14 months, we are hoping later this year after this bubs is born to make it up to see them.

I tried to see them regularly but my ex-husband works with his dad, so didn't want to go there. His mum has huge issues, on lots of pain meds, very manipulative and annoying so he didn't want to see her... Now we're separated, only a month now, I don't know... His dad has always been socially retarded, never talks to anyone at all, never says hello even, comes separately to parties late, you see him off with the kids, then all of a sudden is gone again, never saying hello or goodbye to anyone blink His mum is being super bitchy at the moment, all 'you can confide in me' to my face, then having a crack at me to whoever will listen.
So don't know now if it's my responsibility to take the kids there anymore?? Ex seems to have gone there every time he's had them, so maybe that's enough eh? Anywho, hopefully less now grin

Rarely!! Thank goodness! I haven't been to their house in over 2 years. They dont bother with DD, DH has to arrange for them to see her for christmas. DD saw them once last year. No great loss IMO grin