No problem from me. I get along with my wife's parents better than I did with my own.

My wife's family live in Bejing. Eat it in-law having suckers.

Family members related through their mothers matter more to each other than those related through their fathers, and not just at this time of year

The fact that they keep in touch doesn't inherently mean they 'matter more'. I know women who talk to their mom every day, then talk about how their mother still nags them all the time.

my father's parents were the ones who always held the family holidays together. we spend all such family occasions together with his side. that's where all my cousins are, and that's how we roll. my mom's side is kinda boring, to be honest.

My mom's side hasn't been in contact in fifteen years or so. We only got together with my dad's side once in a while until dad died and that ended. My husband's family is awesome. They get together often and are really fun. When I think of my family I think of them.

What a crappy scientific theory...not that it isn't true...just crappy:

The reason is thought to be based on human evolution because throughout history men could never be certain that they were the biological father.

So the guy's parents don't give a damn because the grandchildren might not be their son's kids? What's that say about how they view their daughter-in-law? No wonder wives and mothers-in-law don't get along.

Thats only because my mom is nuts, and my dad has no long term memory anymore.

/anyone want to adopt me?

Haha, soo so true in my case. Both our parents live about an hour away. We see my parents once every 6 months or so, I talk to them once every 6 months or so. We see her parents once or twice a week, and she talks to her mom every day, sometimes twice a day.

I'm not a very social person, nor am I family oriented (never having kids and whatnot), so it's a little challenging for me to see them as often as I do. Not that they aren't good people. It's just...Jesus, haven't you guys heard absence makes the heart grow fonder?

I see Christmas dying out in the UK...along with
a lot of other things....

If by "hold Christmas together", you mean "refuse to compromise to allow us to see both families on the same day without my wife feeling excluded from the festivities at their place, and hence, make her not want to go to my family because of it", then yeah. They hold it together.

kaminariko: So the guy's parents don't give a damn because the grandchildren might not be their son's kids? What's that say about how they view their daughter-in-law? No wonder wives and mothers-in-law don't get along.

My mom is convinced that my older brother's kid is not his and she treats the toddler that way. Aside from the fact that he looks EXACTLY like him at that age. All because my younger brother, when commenting on the eerie similarity between father and son, made a sarcastic comment that he thought the kid had a different father. My mom has no sarcasm detector and after 2 and a half years, cites my younger brother's comment as proof that my sister-in-law is a whore and that she shouldn't have to have anything to do with her grandson.

Yay. Two days till I get to go over to the 'rents house for Christmas.

My hubby and I found a way to keeps both sets of parents happy and have a peaceful Christmas. We spend Christmas eve with one set of parents, Boxing day with the other set and spend Christmas day at home, just the two of us. Have done this for 7 years now, and it works out great. We have a three day Christmas and everyone's happy!

This brings up a sore spot with me...

My whole life, my parents divided time between my mother's family in the afternoon on Christmas Eve and my father's family at night on Christmas Eve...

This year, my uncle on my father's side (who inherited my grandparent's house) has finally fully caved to the controlling biatch he married several years ago, and they will be doing Christmas with her family... exclusively... and he dropped this bomb at the very last minute, so no gathering for my father's side of the family other than a little get-together that was hastily whipped-up Friday night.

And similar (albeit slightly less infuriating) circumstances with three members of my mom's side of the family have also led to no Christmas Eve get-together with them, just Christmas Day.

Although, I will get to spend the day stewing in my anger and looking forward to the day when that skag ultimately meets someone on myspace or at her job and decides she's going to trade-up and divorces my uncle and takes the home that was purchased "together" in the course of their marriage. (with the proceeds of the sale of my grandparent's home.)

It'll serve the disloyal pussy-whipped bastard right.

Looks like a case for having a Halbwissenschaft tag.

Every time a survey like this appears, the collective intelligence of the Human Race drops by 5% - 10%

Tillmaster: Looks like a case for having a Halbwissenschaft tag.

Every time a survey like this appears, the collective intelligence of the Human Race drops by 5% - 10%

You are farking up the intelligence curve for the rest of us, tilly.

My wife's family are a bunch of bible thumpers. They hold Christmas together by reading scripter and singing carols. Then they start making fun of the Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Yule. I once tried to interject a point that Christ wouldn't have made fun of other holidays. That got me called a blasphemer, and I am going to burn in the fiery pit of hell thanks to the love of their God. I didn't get invited much after that.

This is my last christmas ever. next year I do festivus according to Lazymojo's rules. I'm ordering my festivus pole after Tuesday is over.

The first Lazymojo festivus will likely be small (featuring only me), but there are plans to expand it.

Leave Me Alone! Please Go Away! I'm Doing Fine ! Just Go Away!
Leave Me Alone! Please Go Away! I'm Doing Fine ! Just Go Away!

No duh. All of my family is dead. Kinda sucks to be the last but at least I have no family to leach off of me. Now my wifes family has money and political connections. I get to go to the best holiday parties.

Subby

Your headline is full of FAIL.

My wife's family isn't alcohol, which is the real bonding agent of the season.

\hell, I'm not even married

(Don't have a wife. Will refer to parents. Don't worry, I'm still young...)

Actually, Christmas with my mom's family is, in my dad's words, "like a raffle." They have it on the Friday after the actual holiday. It's my dad's family that tends to get together and be all...together.

I guess I'm an exception to the rule. My wife's family are completely dysfunctional and haven't got together at Christmas for 20 years. My family has frequent reunions at Christmas.

WRONG - we hardly ever see my wife's mom/dad/brothers/sisters/etc. If WE don't make the drive/call/post/whatever then we don't hear from them at all.

My side of the family on the other hand has always been very close - even though they all live farther away.

True story - my wife and I decided not to go on the extended family vacation to the lake this year with the rest of them. My parents and sisters family BEGGED us to allow them to take our three kids along for the week even though the wife and I couldn't make it.

So this article is complete horse-shiat.

my wifes parents both kicked the bucket this past year, so i finally get to spend christmas with just her, the kids, and the remote. my family lives far away and we go visit in summer when the golf courses are open.

I can dig it. Especially since my father's dead and my mother is a wet-brained alcoholic who still thinks it's the fourth of July.
My in-laws don't have to work too hard.
They're nice people anyway. I like them.

The reason is thought to be based on human evolution because throughout history men could never be certain that they were the biological father.

So they where running around sticking their dicks into unknown holes?

My husband and are both products of horribly bitter divorces. We are talking still bitter, embattled and ugly after decades.

The fact that we have a great relationship is a mystery and a miracle, because we certainly had no relationship role models to speak of. Either of us.

My parents are all the way across the country, and one of in the same town we live in, the other an hour away.

We each have one parent to whom we can never speak of the other without getting a face full of verbal battery acid.

We each have a brother (full in my case, half in his) who thinks we suck and will not have anything to do with us because we came from our mother's womb and so are evil. My husband by virtue of the fact that his brother absolutely hates my husband's mother (his stepmom), and me because I just don't know when to shut up and listen to men, and am a woman with an opinion, like my mom. And because I am not an impossibly skinny hot submissive asian chick.

So, my family has never been an issue, thank god, because the wrangling that went on over holiday pissing rights just between his side was bad enough without my family to complicate matters. Because they are complicated enough because his half-sisters have to carefully arrange things so that their brother isn't bothered by his stepmother's spawn. Ahem.

My ex-husband's mother was the iron fist of christmas. I was told we needed to be there christmas eve and early christmas day (like 8AM). I told her no, I had always spent christmas morning in my own home, and did not plan to change that, but we could be there in the afternoon. We didn't get along terribly well after her reading me the riot act on tradition TRADITION (meaning theirs exclusively, not mine) and how sometimes, basically, you just had to suck it up, and I still did not acquiesce.

His new wife has a lot of local family, and that battle was lost again.

Thank you for letting me get that all off my chest.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Depends on a couple factors
1. who's got the least dysfunctional set of relatives
2. who lives closer
3. how close either the wife/husband was with their family to start w/...

Women tend to have a slight lead, simply because they tend to make the family arrangements about the holidays...but not by much

We host Xmas for both sides, not many left on my side anyway...
(sometimes is Xmas eve, sometimes it's Xmas day...

"Scrooge" was an anti-Jew character.

Screw Christmas and if you call me Scrooge you are a farking Nazi.

I am so pathetic. I live in Illinois. My parents have owned a trailer at a resort in Michigan for over 20 years (I hated the place when I was a teen), and a couple of years ago my in-laws bought a lot in the same campground. So I went ahead and bought too, and now the 3 kids and I (and the husband when he's not working)spend every summer with both sets of parents, as well as the grandparents who bought shortly after we did. I don't always particularly like them, but I do appreciate their effort to have a relationship with their grandchildren.

My mom's parents died when she was young and my dad's parents were long-distance...very nice, but still too far away. We don't really worry about the holidays because we see each other enough in the summer.

We've also taken long trips with both sets of parents and we didn't kill each other or anything. I will say that early on in the marriage we did tend to see my parents more, but that's all evened out over the years.

/very grateful
//sorry for those with strained relationships

Sir Cumference the Flatulent: No problem from me. I get along with my wife's parents better than I did with my own.

Ditto.

Truly awesome people.

stellar_wench: My husband and are both products of ...(Appended for brevity)... my chest.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Sounds like a great opportunity to begin a new tradition of going to Captiva Island, FL for christmas.

/anyone else who wants to go, invite them, otherwise, flip 'em the Yule bird

Stanfan114: "Scrooge" was an anti-Jew character.

Screw Christmas and if you call me Scrooge you are a farking Nazi.

Scrooge.

Regnad Kcin: Stanfan114: "Scrooge" was an anti-Jew character.

Screw Christmas and if you call me Scrooge you are a farking Nazi.

Scrooge.

farking nazi :)

I'm not even Jewish that's what is so crazy about all this.

my in-laws are divorced---as of 20 months ago. we're stumbling along. my brother in law is a
My mother-in-law is a


Now, my family gets along, but my mother is a pain in the

I'd prefer to spend my christmas with my wife,

Them - "We're so glad to have you for Christmas."
Me - "Where's the scotch?"

/substitute any liquor for the above

thalidomide new and improved:

my in-laws are divorced---as of 20 months ago. we're stumbling along. my brother in law is a burro
My mother-in-law is a welcome mat


Now, my family gets along, but my mother is a pain in the rooster

I'd prefer to spend my christmas with my wife, at the zoo

That's a fun game. Maybe we can play again sometime.

Regnad Kcin:

That's a fun game. Maybe we can play again sometime.

oh..! now i get it. thanks for the translation. i suck at poetry.

I get along with my in-laws much better now that they're dead. They sucked when they were alive and treated my wife like crap.

thalidomide new and improved: my in-laws are divorced---as of 20 months ago. we're stumbling along. my brother in law is a
My mother-in-law is a


Now, my family gets along, but my mother is a pain in the

I'd prefer to spend my christmas with my wife,

Did you mean to put the picture of the cock on top, in reference to your brother in law, and the ass for your mother? Because I've never heard the phrase "pain in the cock"

Ah, the "saddle of familial obligation"!

He who bears the saddle the best, gets the most holiday BJ"s!

doglover: My wife's family isn't alcohol, which is the real bonding agent of the season.

My husband just commented earlier this evening that my maternal grandmother is much easier to deal with he has alchohol. Dad agreed.

Can't blame either of them. I think she's an obnoxiously selfish biatch and I'm related to her by blood. They just married into the insanity.

jonthenewt: Because I've never heard the phrase "pain in the cock"

You've never had a port call in Rio.

jonthenewt:
Did you mean to put the picture of the cock on top, in reference to your brother in law, and the ass for your mother? Because I've never heard the phrase "pain in the cock"

This makes a whole lot more sense. I was scratching my head trying to figure out the pain in the chicken/cock/whatever part.

Christmas is a horrible burden placed on people who'd rather be doing other things with their time, energy and money.

Solty Dog: My wife's family are a bunch of bible thumpers. They hold Christmas together by reading scripter and singing carols. Then they start making fun of the Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Yule. I once tried to interject a point that Christ wouldn't have made fun of other holidays. That got me called a blasphemer, and I am going to burn in the fiery pit of hell thanks to the love of their God. I didn't get invited much after that.

Shame. Well, not really -you don't sound like you miss it much. You're right, of course - Christ *wouldn't* have. But no one ever likes to have their little prejudices pointed out to them.

Round these parts, I and my folks are the resident bible thumpers. I don't feel too badly about that, considering that my in-laws are the wonderful, loving, "so glad we're not fundie weirdos" folks that heaped abuse, scorn and rape on my husband's head for all his life. I'd rather be a fundie weirdo. But I'd still never make fun of someone else's holiday. ;-)

NancyGracesTesticles: jonthenewt: Because I've never heard the phrase "pain in the cock"

You've never had a port call in Rio.

Bwhwhahaha

This is true. I probably wouldn't bother with Christmas at all anymore if my wife didn't make me.