Is your spouse's brother-in-law or sister-in-law your in-law too? Like if my fiance had a brother-in-law named Bob, would Bob become MY brother-in-law when we got married? If not...what is he to me?
2006-12-03 13:57:57 · 12 answers · asked by Sara 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
This was on Dear Abby the other day -
DEAR ABBY: Please assist my wife and me with a question of usage. Is the man who married my wife's sister my brother-in-law or my sister-in-law's husband?
Please help, as there is $20 and a homemade deep-dish pizza on the line. -- STICKLER IN TENNESSEE
DEAR STICKLER: According to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition), your wife's sister's husband is your brother-in-law.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucda/20061115/lf_ucda/firstnameinformalityiswrongforbusinessmail
2006-12-03 14:01:46 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I believe you assign your own titles to family. For example, I have two choices, I can call my fiance's mother and father my in-laws or my mother and father. I choice to call them mom and dad because they are like family to me "laws" aside. Another example would when my brother's wife's children or my niece and nephew. I do not call them different than their two siblings because my brother is not the father. They are equal. We are family not by law or paper but because of love. People choice to be so technical today and truly miss out on what family is really all about.
Congratulations on your engagement!!!
2006-12-03 14:44:24 · answer #2 · answered by psyjessica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bob is really your husband's brother-in-law and your husbands sister is your sister-in-law. You are Bob's wife's sister-in-law.
Really you are all ken by virtue of marriage.
2006-12-03 14:05:50 · answer #3 · answered by KieKie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bob will be your brother-in-law. But watch out...he's also the 'gooser' at the drunken family bashes!
2006-12-03 15:24:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they are not your in-laws, they are your spouse's in-laws. Bob will be your sister-in-law's husband.
2006-12-03 14:10:12 · answer #5 · answered by B Scott 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
regardless of the legal relationships between your spouse and his inlaw, his inlaw is no relationship to you. Custom in various parts of the world determine this, regardless of advice from Dear Abby and her Websters Collegiate quote - which, by the way, I was unable to locate.
2006-12-07 13:24:06 · answer #6 · answered by Donald W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are your inlaws, by marriage. The same as you end up with aunts, uncles, cousins, mom & dad inlaws by marriage. If the marriage ends, they are no longer your inlaws. None of them.
2006-12-03 14:38:02 · answer #7 · answered by weddrev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he would be your in-law too.
2006-12-04 06:54:33 · answer #8 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he would be your 2nd brother and law.
2006-12-03 14:17:47 · answer #9 · answered by ▌«♥dσσdette♥«▐ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-12-03 14:29:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋