Fri Jun-12-09 05:55 AM by CorpGovActivist

This here would be a thread to discuss how to better cope with the culture clashes that inlaws and other graft-ons (e.g., step-parents, step-siblings, step-extendedfamilynutjobs) can bring to any family.

With kids involved, how do you strike the balance between giving the kids an appropriate appreciation and respect for the "other" family's mores and values, while also holding your thoughts about said "otherness" in check?

Oh, this thread is gonna be a helluva lot of fun.

I ask as the toes over tiara Uncle of Little Miss Hannah, yes.

But I also ask as the son of two parents whose respective families were both misunderstood, and who misunderstood one another, by and large.

Then, if you throw in the honorary graft-on of my very best childhood friend and his extended family, my own issues here run so deep (and so painfully funny) that - as Friday wears on and coffee turns to boozy goodness later - I'm apt to start laying down some of the really good insights I've been holding out on all this time.

; )

Got crazy in-law / graft-on stories? I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours.

- David

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and jeebus h. christ on a pogo stick.... I've got WAY too many stories about this, but I need LOTS of hard liquor to be able to revisit most of that stuff.

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