I didn't realize this, but DH and I inadvertently played a trick on his family. His familee is a bunch ultra-fertile, baybee-worshipping Breeders. When we started dating AT AGE 40 I might add, they were inquiring about whether I wanted baybees before we even got engaged. My DH just said, it's not physically possible. (Due to sterilization, but that's none of their business.)
They should have read the tea leaves: I was 40 and not desperate to get married; I never talked about baybees, in fact I avoid them, etc. Flash forward a couple of years later when they were visiting us and his sister and I are at the store. She sees me buy tampons and she gets all a-twitter. "I thought you didn't have a uterus!" Seriously, people, can you get over The Rude? I said, um, I do, doesn't almost everyone? and calmly bought my tampons.
Thankfully, after 4 years of dating and two of marriage my MIL is mercifully silent on the subject and we don't get many questions anymore . But my FIL is still kind of clueless about the whole thing. I've already mentioned how he starts talking about The Coins that he's saved for DH's "fyooooture keedz" and all these cheesy family heirlooms which I couldn't care less about. And we are now 46 years old, people!
Well, I'm getting a hysterectomy in a couple of weeks. My DH told them last night. I would have preferred that he didn't tell them at all, but it's too late now. Wouldn't that have been fun? I would have dearly loved to put them through a "pregnasty scare" at age 48 or 50.
Anyway, at least maybe we won't have to get the Family Heirloom tour anymore.