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We live about 15 minute drive from my wife’s parents. In fact they were just here this evening to celebrate my birthday and Mother’s Day. It was great when our son was younger and they’d watch him. Now they come to his basketball games and help watch our dog if we are gone for the day or extended time β€”- I think the big fear many have is the in-laws just dropping in without a call. That has only happened a handful of times and it was usually related to them surprising us with a gift or something. I think the main point of I have one is this: the older I get the more I realize how important family is. My wife and son will always trump the relationship with my parents or in-laws…but it’s important to have a quality relationship with them. It’s messy sometimes, as all relationships can be, but at the end of the day Relationships are worth Reconciling
My wife grew up on the same large plot of land as some extended family, including my wife's grandparents and two sets of cousins, aunt, and uncle. I was hoping to do so, too, but money was never good enough to get it, but then my children are older by too much to have the same arrangement of growing up surrounded by cousins. Might not happen.
Having no family bonds is what the banksters want. No one to depend on. Alone among a sea of strangers who have also eschewed their own families living in a concrete shoebox full of unnatural LED lights in the city because netflix groupthinked mother in law bad patriarchy bad into you. Dont fall for the scam.
I live one street over from mine and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. They’re babysitters on standby at all times and we enjoy walking over there with the kids a few times a week. I happen to have great in-laws that aren’t nosy and dropping in at random all the time so maybe I’m the exception though πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ