WAS vs MLC...not sure it really matters, part 3

[SBJ]

skm, I was thinking about you the other day. I'm glad you have come back to keep us up to date.

I agree with OwnIt on the too much too soon thing, but I also understand the odd relationship with your in-laws. My ex was the same with my mother and step-dad. It's not that they did not love her, but that they didn't have anything in common. My parents are alcoholics and my w doesn't drink. She saw the relationship with my brothers wives and I think she was jealous. They would all get together and have a drinking fest, but we had small children and my w didn't find that to be fun.

Now that my parents are on the wagon, their whole demeanor has changed and I think that the would get along great, but that ship has sailed for now. We will see what the future holds.

I won't say that it is easy to get over hurtful comments towards you, but I will say that a parent will crush whoever is against their child. They believed him when he told them that you were the issue. They took his side throughout the entire separation and probably helped fund his lifestyle too.

Your skin has thickened over the last two years, so maybe if you develop a WTF attitude towards them and kill them with kindness things would change. I'm no Dr. Phil, so you can take it or leave it, but that technique worked with my sister-in-law and her husbands parents. (SIL on my wife's side).

Take care of yourself and your dogs. Stay strong!