The Dos And Don'ts Of Meeting Your Inlaws For The First Time

The Dos And Don'ts Of Meeting Your Inlaws For The First Time



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Here’s how to navigate those first delicate in-law encounter

1) Don’t try to kiss them, unless they give some indication that they are going to kiss you first.

2) Do stick to uncontroversial subjects, conversation-wise - which rules outBrexit, immigration, religion, the state of the NHS, Scottish independence, state v private education, Donald Trump, euthanasia and inheritance tax. 

3) Do take a gift.

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Flowers and decent wine (not Blossom Hill) are safe bets, even if they don’t drink much. 

4) Don’t offer to carve.

5) Do check around carefully before you sit down. 

6) Don’t ask to borrow anything - particularly money, but even something as innocuous as a ratty old paperback on a bookshelf. 

7) Do accept the sleeping arrangements as presented to you, without sulking or making a point of dragging single beds together in the middle of the night. 

8) Don’t say ‘Has he always snored like that? It’s like sleeping in a farmyard.’

9) Do use a coaster.

10) Don’t say, ‘So, were you evacuated in the war?’ They probablyweren’t even born until 1952.

11) Do tuck into whatever they have cooked for you. 

12) Don’t assume that, as they were pre-warned you’re a vegetarian, they will pay heed. 

13) Do mention your own parents in fond terms, but don’t brag.

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Saying, ‘Of course, my parents are intellectuals’ might imply that you find this lot a bit dim.


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