The In-Laws are Bat-Sht Crazy…….
Some of you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Once you’ve been with your significant other long enough to spend real time with their immediate family, you start to realize just how crazy they are. We’ve all been there. Marry into the family and—congratulations—you’ve been granted a personal invite to the Nut Zone.
All those quirks and questionable behaviors they manage to keep under wraps in public? They come out in full Technicolor when it’s “just family”—holidays, family vacations, major decisions, or any moment when emotions run high. That’s when you start to think you and your significant other should probably see a counselor. Better yet, make it a family session.
It’s amazing how irritating, self-centered, judgmental, demanding—or just plain bizarre your in-laws’ behavior can be. Difficult and destructive, thin-skinned, or so thick-skinned they’re oblivious to everything around them. Honestly, you deserve a medal for putting up with them.
And here’s the thing: if you don’t get along with your in-laws, you’d better get good at dodging and weaving your way out of invites. Unfortunately, that strategy doesn’t exactly win you points either.
To make matters worse, your partner will inevitably try to argue that your family is just as crazy.
And that’s the rub. The difference between their bat-sht crazy and my bat-sht crazy? I’m used to mine. I’ve been dealing with it my whole life. It’s “normal”…
