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December 2000 and January 2001: Poll:

Do You Get Along with Your In-Laws?

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Do You Get Along with Your In-Laws? [462 votes total] Yes, they're great (212) 46% They're okay (147) 32% I don't like them (44) 10% They make me sick (59)   13%

462 votes were cast.

This poll didn't get quite so many votes or comments. I think maybe because a lot of the visitors to this site are unmarried and don't have in-laws! There were some very kind and generous comments, however, and a few funny ones too. One person said, "At least they are better than Abu Lahab and his wife." Good point!

-Wael Abdelgawad, Editor

These are some of your comments:

My in-laws are not Muslim and they do not like me wearing hijab. Feb 6th 2001 06:24:44 AM

Yes...when I give them money!! Feb 2nd 2001 10:16:50 AM

Most of my inlaws are liberal muslims as is my husband, very liberal and westernized. I am not muslim. If they were not, I would never have married him, or not gotten along with his family and I wouldn't let our children visit Arabia to see family.

They are great, because they bore their child and sacrifice their peak time Jan 29th 2001 02:37:14 PM

I have never been so apalled by the treatment I get from my in-laws...WILL they ever wake up? Jan 26th 2001 11:23:36 PM

My in-laws are the sweetest creatures on the face of this earth. Everyday they call me and ask me how i'm doing. I love them very much. Jan 26th 2001 11:21:42 PM

First of all I must say that I only recently got married-three ago and because our two families have been close and share a great deal in common.

My inlaws are very nice. Jan 11th 2001 11:06:09 AM

How can people say that they hate their in-laws? Jan 11th 2001 10:28:20 AM

This is a good idea. Jan 9th 2001 04:47:21 PM

I think in-laws should be cool but I'm not yet married nor do I have a girlfriend.

They are great and you have provided good information about muslim culture... keep it up ... great work done. Jan 7th 2001 02:19:47 AM

One should like one's in-laws not because of the nafs, but because of the Prophet's sayings to respect them as our second parents. Jan 6th 2001 11:44:26 PM

I am treated like a real daughter. I love them very much. Jan 4th 2001 02:06:26 AM

If they call them in English parents in law we have to regard them as parents. Jan 4th 2001 12:39:15 AM

Well, even in Islam it's said that you got to treat your in-laws real well. Jan 3rd 2001 08:39:29 PM

We respect and care for each other, but they seem to differentiate me from the other daughter in-law as she is their relative, though I do all good to them and never stop my husband from his duties to his family, especially parents. Jan 2nd 2001 01:59:29 PM

At least they are better than Abu Lahab and his wife.

They treat me better than their son cause I treat their daughter better than my own sister. Jan 1st 2001 07:23:08 PM

They are part of our brothers.... Jan 1st 2001 01:36:27 PM

Great ! Dec 31st 2000 04:28:55 AM

Understanding is required on both sides, and patience from the young. Dec 26th 2000 03:28:11 PM

I am not married but every body says bad about them.

They are cooperatvie with me always. Dec 25th 2000 04:42:00 AM

Not a surprising result. Dec 19th 2000 05:42:23 AM

They gave me the greatest looking girl in the world. Dec 18th 2000 07:18:17 AM

Allah has blessed me with such loving in-laws who are not even muslim but treat me with such respect and love. I feel like we have been family forever. Ayiesha Dec 16th 2000 02:51:45 PM

They're very nice, but the Prophet (saw) said to beware of the in-laws, for the in-laws are death. (In other words, beware of becoming too intimate with them, because it could lead to something improper). Dec 15th 2000 04:06:12 PM

They're not too horrible but they talk about me behind my back.

Thanks everyone for your great input.

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