1. You need to know that every family has issues. Even if everything looks perfectly wonderful from the outside.
2. You need to know thatmarriage fundamentally changes your relationship with your parents.
3. You need to know yourhusband’s ideas are now more important than your mom’s.
4. You need to know you have to getalong with her family even though she’s told you her
father was abusive and her mother hears voices. Happy Thanksgiving.
5. You need to know to not letparents buy you too many gifts. They usually come with strings. And guilt.
6. You need to know you shouldn’t tryand change your wife because your parents believe she could use some improvement.
7. You need to know your own family, no matter what you think, teeters on mental instability.
8. You need to know your mother-in-lawwill give you some really screwy gifts. Thank her warmly and re-gift them to your cousin’s neighbor’s housesitter.
9. You need to know you now have toschedule who you’ll have holiday meals with. And that might mean two Thanksgiving dinners in six hours.
10. You need to know she probablydoesn’t want to be compared to her mother. Compare her to Attila
the Hun. Compare her to the plague. Just leave out her mother.
11. You need to know to stay out offamily feuds. You’ll be seeing these same people during the holidays, and they’ll remember that you yelled at them.
12. You need to know that if his mom isan addict, your marriage will be that much more interesting.
13. You need to know that ifyou’re marrying someone whose parents are practicing alcoholics,
chances are strong something is off the rails in your family too.
14. You need to know to sendyour mother-in-law flowers every now and then. Untold benefits.
15. You need to know to not tellyour mom about every fight. You’ll get over it and make up. She won’t.
16. You need to know you’ll haveto be strong enough to tell your dad to butt out. Your spouse is the most
important person in your life now.
17. You need to know yourparents don’t mean to get in the way. They think they’re helping.
18. You need to know just one wordwhen it comes to appreciating parents and in-laws: babysitters.
19. You need to know you mightspend more time and money taking care of your parents than your kids.
20. You need to know if he wantsto live near Mom or if he’d be willing to move to Utah for your career.
21. You need to know that at aboutthe same time your kids are leaving home, his parents could be moving in.
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