When you don’t live with your in laws, even if you interact a lot, nothing can prepare you for the experience of moving one of them in. Unless you spend a lot of time in their space, know their habits and lifestyle, and finances, you will be surprised. Maybe even if you do know those things… maybe you know how they do things and behave but assume they will adapt, or that once in another home, living in someone elses space (yours), they will behave differently, because any “normal” human would.
Maybe my mother in law (MIL) is just above and beyond what you’d expect, and not in the good way. Maybe I’m unrealistic in my expectations. Maybe my father in law (FIL) wasn’t clearly depicting the life story. Clearly he knew. I know he knew.. maybe his way of saying things just didn’t resonate because we weren’t in it that deep yet, but we are in it now and man does it suck…
Inlawtastic 