Posted on 04/26/2008 8:54:23 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark
The inlaws would like a word to help us define our relationships.
Is there a name for the relationship the parents have to each other?
We are more like sisters than inlaws. Explaining the marriages makes
your brain explode so we'd like to find a short name to tell the story
more succinctly.
My daughter is her brother's cousin in-law.
My son is his sister's cousin in-law.
My daughter's mother in law is her brother's aunt.
My son's mother in-law is his sister's aunt.
Can you name it ping?
Keep that going and you’ll turn out to be your own grandparent... :)
Just say they’re your Arkans-laws.
Good grief....this is a question for Jerry Springer, not FreeRepublic.
I know what you’re thinking.
NO... they are not marrying
their own cousins. Fortunately,
the cousins are from an entirely
other family.
Springer in -law
It’s times like this when I find myself hoping to marry an orphan.
Seriously though, sounds like you’re over complicating the situation.
“Brother-in-law’s cousin” sounds right.
I see a whole new opportunity here for Hallmark cards ....
Arkansin laws ... I like!
I say just call yourself FLDS members and call it a day.
(JUST kidding, people.....)
Shirt tail relative? :-)
To clarify, B-i-L’s cousin if your son is needing to explain the situation.
Otherwise, you can’t go wrong by calling her first cousin once removed. /shrug
Our problem is introducing the parents.
It seems to go on and on trying to describe
who we are to each other.
Keep it simple.
Try Mom and Dad. As for the other parents, they’re Mom and Dad, too.
You can leave the “cousin of my sister’s husband” part right the heck out of it, unless you’re looking for unnecessary conversation.
Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her and soon they, too, were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
For my daughter was my mother, ‘cause she was my father’s wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
To the widow’s grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my step-mother.
My father’s wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grand-child, ‘cause he was my daughter’s son.
My wife is now my mother’s mother, and it makes me blue
Because, although she is my wife, she’s my grandmother too.
If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
(This has got to be the strangest thing I ever saw)
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpaw.
Chorus
I’m my own grandpaw
I’m my own grandpaw
It sounds funny I know
but it really is so
Oh, I’m my own grandpaw.
FLDS member? Yeah... er ... no. LOL!
LOL!
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