I Heart My In-Laws

A practical laugh-out-loud guide to adopting your man''s family--from your first date to your firstbornGirlfriends fiancées and wives rejoice! Here at last is a book you can turn to in times of stress panic and family vacations to the smallest cottage ever built on the island of Nantucket. Mirroring the natural progression of a relationship and incorporating interviews from women just like you this hilarious savvy guide will help you survive your first meeting with future in-laws from the holidays weddings and new babies to the day they retire to the house next door because it''s a great real estate investment. Discover a wide array of sanity-retention techniques and tips on scoring major points with each and every in-law. Learn how to sweet-talk his sister mollify his mother and defuse potentially explosive situations--like when your pumpkin pie gives Nana a bad case of hives. Stories range from the tragic my father-in-law just pinched my ass and not in that sportsmanship kind of way to the triumphant I''m now CEO of my grandfather-in-law''s cement company--Thanks Pupup! Offering handy translation charts with curse words in Persian and compliments in Cantonese a list of gifts and how to interpret their hidden meaning tips for reclaiming the holidays one Bastille Day at a time and your very own set of Mother-in-Law MadLibs I Heart My In-laws embodies the old saying It''s funny because it''s true.