my husband and i have been married for alittle over a year now. we started out our marriage living with his parents, sister, her husband and neice in a 4 bedroom 3 1/2 bathroom, about 7 months into the marriage, that house started to get real small real quick and nearly came to blows between my sister inlaw and me, so we moved out, about 5 miles down the road and about 2 weeks later my husbands sister announced that they were moving to texas, my mother and father inlaw are in bad, health, my father inlaw has had 5 heart attacks, 8 stints, living off oxygen and is about 400lbs, my mother inlaw has "fibromyalgia", some other off the wall things wrong and a bad back, well once my sister inlaw and her family moved out, we decided that since we had to go to my inlaws house literally every other day and sometimes everyday, it was a waste of money to be living somewhere else and have to still drive the extra miles and spend the xtra time over there, we were even having to go over there to take the trash out once a week when my sister inlaw and her family still lived there. so we moved back when our lease was up in november.now we've been back 2 months and its starting to wear our nerves thin. about once a week we go out to dinner with friends or other family just to get away, if we come back without something for them to eat, we always get fussed at about not bringing food home.sometimes when we go out they are asleep, but when we come back their awake,my husbands father asked me that if we leave the house, that we tell them and wake them up to let them know, usually anything my inlaws say goes through to my husband first,well it didnt this time and it wasnt even mentioned to him..my mother inlaw isnt completely helpless, she functions fine when she hasnt taken all of her meds, she'll fuss at us for not bringing food home for my fatherinlaw even though she is on the computer and on the phone at the same time. i dont understand why she cant make him a sandwich or something cause he's not a very picky man. my husband mentioned the othernight when we had an incident with his mom over food, that we are going to end up moving back out again, the comment was made that it would kill his mother if we moved out. but we cant keep living like this. lastnight my mother inlaw put unloaded a dishwasher full of dirty dishes...my mother inlaw is 59 and my fatherinlaw is 66....
So my questions are.....
Should we start considering putting them in a home?
How can we move out without making "bad blood"?
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