Dealing with your In-Laws

I found this article and thought it may be insightful for some Guppans.
URL below

It addresses the following issues:
**Parent Trap: Your mother-in-law criticizes your housekeeping skills.
****Parent Trap: Your in-laws keep asking when you and your husband will have children.
****Parent Trap: Your mother-in-law does things that suggest she still thinks of your husband as her little boy (buying him underwear, say, or telling him how to wear his hair).
**Parent Trap: It’s obvious that your parents and your in-laws don’t get along.
**Parent Trap: Whenever they’re together, your father-in-law ends up saying something that upsets your husband.
****Parent Trap: Your in-laws always offer unsolicited advice on how to raise your children.
****Parent Trap: When your in-laws spend time alone with your children, they ignore the rules you’ve set up.
****Parent Trap: Both sets of parents want you to visit them during the holidays.
****Parent Trap: When your in-laws visit for the holidays, they expect you to embrace all their traditions, rather than your own.
****Parent Trap: Your in-laws are spoiling your children with extravagant gifts.

since i am new i cannot post the URL, so here it is spelled out.

www . realsimple.com/gallery/0,21863,1170760,00.htm
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