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I thought I would start a new thread on them as we seem to be going on another thread.
I had a wonderful mother-in-law and father-in-law who treated me like one of the family.
Ma was 5'2" and Pa was 6'2" and they were great 'down-to-earth' Yorkshire folk.
Unfortunately they died in 1980 and the dreadfully young age of 55. Pa dropped dead of a heart attack with a pint in his hand and no-one realised for a while because he was well known as joker. Ma followed 2 months later of a broken heart. Well it said Myocardial infarction on the death certificate and she had had angine for 8 years, but her heart was definitely broken.
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
Mother-in-law OK. She used to live just across the road from us, and was usually pretty helpful. Surprisingly I also got on well with Joe's MIL from his first marriage, except that she would upset Joe's daughters by bringing them clothes from jumble sales, which they hated. Nothing personal, she just did it for all her grandchildren.
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Great Plum wrote:Mother in Law only lives half a mile from me...
Father in law, well he's a different matter altogether unfortunately...
I take it you don't wish to elaborate, then ?
Well, it's a not a great sotry to be honest - I think he made a concious decision when he moved to Wales to cut off contact with his daughters - something I cannot equate with...
Great Plum wrote:Mother in Law only lives half a mile from me...
Father in law, well he's a different matter altogether unfortunately...
I take it you don't wish to elaborate, then ?
Well, it's a not a great sotry to be honest - I think he made a concious decision when he moved to Wales to cut off contact with his daughters - something I cannot equate with...
How very strange !!
Then again, Jan and I head a very close family. Eldest daughter and I train footy to girls twice a week and generally, we see youngest daughter 3 to 5 times a week.
Both sons-in-law call me John and treat me more like an older brother than a father-in-law, often enjoying a glass or three of amber nectar together. (I think you may have briefly met one at The Retreat !)
I don't have a mother-in-law as she died when hubby was in his early 20s. I'd have liked to have met her and for her to have seen the girls. Father-in-law is lovely, a real bundle of fun. He lives in Hove so we don't see him that often but when we do we have a lovely time. He is coming down to visit after Easter. A very easy man to have to stay - as long as he has a newspaper and a cup of coffee he's happy, and he takes us out for meals and generally spoils all of us. We are also still very close to husband's in-laws from his first marriage, or out-laws as we now refer to them. A large, extended but imho happy family.
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My mil & fil live a ten minute walk away and we see them 3 or 4 times a year if that Considering we have two children, obviously their grandchildren, I think this sums them up really And fil is a Samaritan
Vonny wrote:My mil & fil live a ten minute walk away and we see them 3 or 4 times a year if that Considering we have two children, obviously their grandchildren, I think this sums them up really And fil is a Samaritan
I'm sorry Vonny, but I find that incredible !
Our Grand-Children seem almost to live in this house during their holidays, and that INCLUDES some of their friends !
Vonny wrote:My mil & fil live a ten minute walk away and we see them 3 or 4 times a year if that Considering we have two children, obviously their grandchildren, I think this sums them up really And fil is a Samaritan
I'm sorry Vonny, but I find that incredible !
Our Grand-Children seem almost to live in this house during their holidays, and that INCLUDES some of their friends !
I know - can't understand it myself either. Imagine how infrequently we saw them when we lived 70 miles away! AND they NEVER EVER phoned/phone us up on Xmas Day or the kids birthdays!!! I think that's disgusting.
Our kids live at my parents though so that's good. My mum & dad will do anything for them and are always buying them bits and pieces and generally spoiling them as you would expect grandparents to do.
I am sure my mil and fil would have been like John and Jan, except we live in the south and they would have been in Yorkshire. My fil even refused to call me his dil (love it) which caused all sorts of fun when mil put "Sadly missed by wife Edna, sons Alan and Barry and daughters Mary and Alison" in the local paper.
Alan and Barry are at the Johnstones Paint Trophy Final at Cardiff this afternoon and they will both be feeling the spectral nudges to their upper arms their Dad used to give them. He was a goalkeeper of fearsome repute in the amateur game and could have played for Huddersfield but had been away during the war (played for the Army) and didn't want to leave home again.
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
on another thread.
Considering we have two children, obviously their grandchildren, I think this sums them up really 
And fil is a Samaritan