Are Your In-Laws Driving You Nuts? 5 Ways to Cope.

Are your in-laws driving you nuts?

Are you incredibly frustrated but not sure what to do because they are your partner’s parents and you want to be respectful?

I get it. In-laws can be a challenge. I know there were certainly in-law struggles in my marriage and sometimes things didn’t go well.

I have thought about my struggles during those early days of our marriage and what I could have done differently. I have many more life skills now than I had then and I have decided that I could have done things differently.

What I have learned since then is that you can’t change other’s behavior but you can change your reaction to them. A person is how a person is and, unless they want to change, they won’t. Controlling how you react to their behaviors is something that you can do and, when you do, you might find that dealing with an overbearing in law is possible.

So, with that idea in mind, here are some things to keep in mind about your in laws that might help you change your reaction to them so that you can deal with them in a healthy way.

#1 — They have experience that you don’t have.

Your in-laws have been doing what you are just beginning to do for probably more than a few…