Farren

Well I've been single for a while and intend to stay that way for the time being, but I lived with someone for around five years and a half years and my in-laws were... interesting.

My mother's Catholic and really gave my girlfriend a hard time even though my dad was a real sweetypie to her, Mom thought she was "from the wrong side of the tracks. There was this whole Catholic and class thing going on at the same time.

Before we moved into our own place, I used to sleep over at her place a lot so we wouldn't have to deal with my mom "polishing the doorknob" of my room for an hour and a half if my girlfriend was even just sitting there, and shit like that.

First night I slept over at her mom's place I was planning on getting up real early so I could quietly slip out, but didn't manage to wake up in time. I got woken up by her mom bringing us breakfast in bed. One time I nonchalantly tossed a condom out the window (god knows why) and it landed on her mother's head! It was a second story bedroom in one of those narrow townhouses. Her mom let me off the hook and told me to put things in the bin where they belong.

Not that there weren't issues. Despite keeping an generally orderly home, her mother was a borderline alchoholic, and her boyfriend was a raging drunk, so things got very interesting sometimes, like the time I pitched up to take J out and, on enquiring about the holes in the solid front gate, got told they were bullet holes from her mother taking potshots at hubby after he came home late.

After that I had a couple of comparitively brief relationships with women from Calvinist, Muslim and Jewish backgrounds, but I never had to interact with their folks much, and somehow people just let you off the hook if you're not from their faith, but god forbid you're from the same faith and apostate! Funny, isn't it.

Oh and my jar of jellybeans is in stasis at the moment, and will certainly never diminish. I'll have lots of stale jellybeans when I kick the bucket.

soluble_fish

that's right, i -- most resoundingly -- beg to differ



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ohwilleke

This is indeed, a big problem, which gets worse every time they visit. They're gone for months, everything's decent. They are about to visit or visiting or just left, and I'm second rate. I'm not handy enough, too lazy, unsuccessful, etc.

I also have to add my voice to the chorus contrary to the Jelly Bean Law. The need to find private opportunities doesn't stop however. Just when you think you have the parents under control, the kids are there to keep out of the sight of.

Godless Dave

My parents insisted that each of us kids learn a musical instrument. I had thought it was because they valued music and considered it part of a well-rounded education. But maybe they just wanted us out of the house for a couple hours each week.

soluble_fish

i'll have to keep that in mind... my wife pops in october

RevDahlia

My fiance says that every Friday night starting when he was about twelve, his father would announce "I don't know what you kids are planning on doing tonight, but feel free to do it elsewhere." Pretty cute, I thought, even if it could be construed as neglect.