>>>>>>When his father dies, he's going to kill himself.
that's funny because I always think my SILs will kill themselves and really not know how to go on when MIL dies.
>>>>>He gets off on his non-stop intravenous drip of acceptance and fatherly approval because he can't relate to other human beings, who appear to be nothing more than cardboard cut-outs to him.
This is what I always think of my SILs, who I have know since we were all teens. I guess it feels so good to be with mommie since she is queen of denile and never says a bad word to them. And, they don't want outside influences and friends because it is too hard because someone may live differently from you or not agree with you or , oh my god, even occassionally judge you! My one SIL moved out of state, and really has no friends of her own. Hubby is always confused, but hello, she really didn't have any friends here either.
>>>>>>his colleagues probably hate him for his obsessing about fambly
I always wonder about this...my other SIL does have some friends from her old cheerleading days <*puke*>, and I'm sure they know MIL, but I always wonder, what does she talk to them about when she finally makes some friend time over family time, her mom paying for everything? all the gifts she gets from her? what they did together that day? I wonder if her friends are thinking, "hey, shut up 'bout the fambly already."
What a secluded world they live in, I'm sure they feel it is safe because they are surrounded by loved-ones always, but they never went on a limb (except w/ their hubbys) to get love from someone that doesn't "have" to love you and accept you and have to make more than safe small talk with. To actually connect with someone that doesn't have to talk to you for the family's sake.