Top Ten Ways to Create Fights or Tension with Your In-Laws

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#10 - Make it clear you have no interest in them as people but only what they can contribute to the wedding

#9 - If they talk with you directly about their ideas, be sure to never tell your fiance to help maximize potential miscommunication and stress

#8 - If there are cultural or regional differences be sure to blow off their notions of a wedding, telling them, "THIS is how we do weddings"

#7 - Be sure to have no idea about their family tree and past family weddings to ensure all potential drama or difficult guests from their side give you surprises at your wedding or in wedding planning

#6 - Try to pit your parents against your in-laws, whether directly or through your fiance. Parents love to compete with other parents they barely know around an intense, public family event

#5 - Brush off every suggestion or idea by telling them about a family member on YOUR side who has a better suggestion or idea

#4 - Be sure not to talk to your fiance about whether his/her parents have any quirks (say, promising to pay for things and always falling through at the last minute)

#3 - It's best to pay close attention to their house size, what they own, their cars and all purchases or plans they make so you have amunition on how they COULD have contributed more if they didn't own or buy things during the wedding plans

#2 - Try to reinforce any fear of losing their child by trying to get your fiance to participate in ALL your family events over the year and to avoid all of the family events on his/her side

#1 - Make sure if you have been wronged by your in-laws to directly talk to them, tell them they're being awful. It's even more tension filled if you do this around subjects your fiance doesn't agree with you on, or doing this when your fiance has no idea and picks up the phone to angry parents and has no idea why!