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Committing to your partner means committing to his family, no matter what that family is like. You could marry someone who has parents that are still together, and happily together at that. You could marry someone with parents who are together, should probably be divorced, but are putting on a happy face. You could marry someone with divorced parents that get along. Or, you could get stuck with the trickiest situation of all: marrying someone with divorced parents who do not get along. Your partner has had some time to get used to this—he’s had some practice in navigating the situation. But you’re a newcomer and might feel like you were dropped into the middle of an active war, unaware of which side you’re even on. Here’s what it’s like to have divorced in-laws that don’t get along.
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Holidays are chaotic
Since your in-laws don’t get along, they can’t sit down for a peaceful holiday dinner. So you’ll have one Thanksgiving dinner from 4 to 6 with one, and another from 6:30 to 8:30 with the other. And you have to eat too much because if you hold back at either meal, that in-law will feel like you are holding out for the other one. Basically, you drive around a lot, pretty nauseous.
