Me and my wife are at breaking point. We have had enough. The arrangement that we had to have my wife’s parents live with us just hasn’t gone to plan and, as a result, we’re going to extreme lengths to cut it short now. basically by having them here it means that me and my wife can’t:

  • Have conversations without them asking what we said
  • Have other people around
  • Watch what we want on TV
  • Change the TV channel to something for the kids without asking permission
  • Clean the house properly
  • Move anything in the house without explaining why
  • Have a neat front room
  • Have a bin in a place that doesn’t stink out the kitchen
  • Maintain the garden
  • Make our kids avoid even knowing what smoking is
  • Have everything put away in the kitchen
  • Eat what we want every day
  • Have takeaways often
  • Do things that married couples do

My wife always tries to remind me of positives of them being here, but it doesn’t work. Basically the only one is that when they have the kids, it doesn’t disrupt our little ones. It feels completely irrelevant to me, because of all the drawbacks of the situation.

Anyway let’s ignore all of that, because we’ve had a big breakthrough. After my wife had a discussion with them, she convinced them that the best option for them moving forward is to get their own place via the social housing method. They’re both very close to retirement age (even though only one of them is actually working right now) and it’s time for them to settle in their own space.

My wife got them onto the prioritised end of band C in Homesearch and, based on the type of property they’re looking for, it seems as though it won’t take long before something good comes up. Lately they’ve been in the top 5 for 3 different places, so I’m hopefully it won’t be more than a year before they’re finally gone and we can move on.