My parents travelled over to visit my mrs' family over the new year, and to be honest I found them to be really embarrasing and a p.i.t.a from start to finish.
My Dad just basically let them pay for everything (even though my parents are quite financially comfortable) and my mrs's parents not so much. He always seems to say the wrong thing, gets excessively emotional, and loves telling stories which bore me half to death. I love him but honestly I think we are so different they must have swapped babies in the hospital or something.
Me and my lady contributed a lot, buying the kids lots of presents (even a scaletrics set 'from my parents' which was a good job as my 'dears' didn't bother getting them any), a load of fireworks, food and drink, etc.
My mother is basically a manic depressive, and decided to go in a mood for two whole days at the click of her fingers, she had a face like a slapped arse on her.
After the visit we left and didnt speak to my parents on the phone,and they didn't call. So a week later I decided to call them, only to get an absolute earfull off the both of them for being an awful disrespectful son and generally a bad person. I don't see it this way at all and basically they have been like this since I was a boy so I'd like to say it's water off a ducks back even though that might not be completely true. To be honest I'm pretty surprised I'm not a nutter or heroin addict after the childhood I had.
I just let them say their piece, I tried to reason with them about it but they won't listen at all, they never have and even in my late 20's they treat me like a child even though I have a successfull career, have always achieved well in school/college/uni etc.
Now my lady and I are due to have a baby in May I'm a bit worried about how much I wan't them to be involved with our boy. They are both pretty hardcore catholics my mum especially so, and she loves to judge people and stick her oar in at every opportunity.
My Dad just basically let them pay for everything (even though my parents are quite financially comfortable) and my mrs's parents not so much. He always seems to say the wrong thing, gets excessively emotional, and loves telling stories which bore me half to death. I love him but honestly I think we are so different they must have swapped babies in the hospital or something.
Me and my lady contributed a lot, buying the kids lots of presents (even a scaletrics set 'from my parents' which was a good job as my 'dears' didn't bother getting them any), a load of fireworks, food and drink, etc.
My mother is basically a manic depressive, and decided to go in a mood for two whole days at the click of her fingers, she had a face like a slapped arse on her.
After the visit we left and didnt speak to my parents on the phone,and they didn't call. So a week later I decided to call them, only to get an absolute earfull off the both of them for being an awful disrespectful son and generally a bad person. I don't see it this way at all and basically they have been like this since I was a boy so I'd like to say it's water off a ducks back even though that might not be completely true. To be honest I'm pretty surprised I'm not a nutter or heroin addict after the childhood I had.
I just let them say their piece, I tried to reason with them about it but they won't listen at all, they never have and even in my late 20's they treat me like a child even though I have a successfull career, have always achieved well in school/college/uni etc.
Now my lady and I are due to have a baby in May I'm a bit worried about how much I wan't them to be involved with our boy. They are both pretty hardcore catholics my mum especially so, and she loves to judge people and stick her oar in at every opportunity.
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