Myrtle Claus
4. In-laws are really family
Quite cliché, but a truth as a cow. Not only do you have a relationship with the Italian man/woman of your dreams, but you also immediately receive a whole family as a gift. Which occupies a very important place in your lover's life. Surrender to it. Try to give back all the heat you receive. And don't forget to keep your opinion about Aunt A or Cousin B to yourself. You will see that you will appreciate all those family ties in no time.
If the in-laws do not live around the corner, you will miss the Sunday afternoons with the whole family around the kitchen table. But when you are trying to have a conversation with your partner and you are regularly interrupted by the telephone – the Italian invention par excellence for reducing the distance between loved ones – you will wonder from time to time if it wouldn't be easier to get closer to live nearby. So that you can at least have a conversation undisturbed.
Know that that is an illusion. And accept the interruptions. So that you don't get the blame that you, as a cold Dutch frog who doesn't call family every day, don't understand all that warmth and affection.
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