It is depressing when people don't welcome us as we expect they will.
However, it is comforting to note that we marry to form our own family and
that as soon as we do marry everyone else, including our parents,
grandparents, brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles and
grandparents immediately take a backseat in priority.
TV and such has perverted the idea of marage.  It used to be put across that
when a wife takes a husband, she is like a child who in her weakness has to
train under her mother-in-law to learn how to serve her husband or something
like that.
My wife tried this approach and found a poor sorce of information in my
mother.  hahahahahaha
Likewise, I could not have learned the things needed for me to know from
Terri's family in how to care for her as they had screwed up relationships
as well.
The men in her family more or less told me that marage is hell and you just
have to deal with a life of unhappyness as that was what they were doing and
the women just tried to manipulate me and/or teach Terri how to manipulate
me to get what they wanted from us and for Terri.
This is why the bible says that you leave your families and cleave together.
Well enough preaching from a father who has a screamming child just now.
Instituting a new 9 o'clock bedtime with bottle until asleep and then taken
away as not to rot the teeth so that maybe we can work on this sanity and
marage thing.

Matt