I think a lot of us have challenging times getting along with her in-laws. It’s not easy to blend two families together when they have completely different experiences throughout life. For instance, I come from relatively low economic status and my family is extremely challenging. Meanwhile, my wife’s family is rather wealthy and they all enjoy being in each other’s presence. I don’t understand either of these ways of life. Furthermore, things can be very complicated when you’re constantly being compared to other people. My in-laws continually judge me against my wife’s ex-husband. Specifically, they feel as though I’m not a good provider because I’m not a heating, cooling, and air quality control specialist. When my wife was much younger she married a strapping young HVAC technician after he repaired her central air conditioning unit in an emergency. The heating and cooling worker swept her off her feet and they were married within a year. Unfortunately, the marriage didn’t last because this heating and cooling technician was much more concerned with indoor air quality than my wife. To this day, however, my in-laws constantly make comments about our indoor air handling devices. They tell me that the forced air furnace and AC unit could be in better shape if I knew anything about HVAC devices. I am so tired of hearing about their obsession with our thermostat, cooling system, and heating devices. My wife doesn’t complain about our indoor air quality so what are they talking about? Maybe I’m not an air quality control specialist, but at least I know how to treat their daughter.
