in-law relations
Spouse's family members
In-law relations are family members connected through marriage rather than blood—your spouse's relatives and the spouses of your blood relatives.
The term covers parents-in-law, siblings-in-law, and their extended families.
These relationships carry social expectations but lack the biological ties that typically define kinship: Her in-law relations were cordial but distant.
The phrase often implies obligatory rather than chosen connections.
- mother-in-lawSpouse's maternal parent
- overbearing motherDomineering female parent
- father-in-lawSpouse's paternal parent
- son-in-lawMale spouse of offspring
- daughter-in-lawSon's spouse, legally
brother-in-law · sister-in-law · spouse · marriage · wedding · nuclear family · family · relatives · holidays · Thanksgiving · boundaries · meddling · unsolicited advice · visits · keeping the peace · approval · tension · family drama
- family bondslove, parent-child bond, trust, sibling bond, loyalty
- Family Relationshipsfamily dynamics, emotional support, caregiving, communication, family expectations
- mixed marriagesintermarriage, mixed marriages, interracial couples, interfaith marriage, mixed heritage
in-law relationsblood relations
Relatives by birth
blood relatives · family of origin · direct descendants · biological parents · birth parents
in-law relationsblood relations
Relatives by birth
blood relatives · blood kin · birth family · flesh and blood · family of origin
laws, lawful, lawfully, unlawful, unlawfully, lawless, lawlessness, lawyer, lawyers