Group Chats
Does anyone else get annoyed at group chats?
My family has one large group chat for my parents, me & my siblings & all of our partners, anything else is direct messaging. Not an awful lot goes in there to be honest, think a couple of holiday photos if someone’s away, plans about days out, questions such as where are the caravan keys & the odd meme or piss take where everyone gets involved.
My in laws have their own family-only group chat, a couple for his parents with each sibling & their SO, one with all of us in & a ladies one (SIL, MIL, a family friend & me). Our ‘couple’ group chat (me, partner & his parents) is always going off… blurry photos of burgers, updates on how fast his Dad rode his bike on the weekend, random household cleaning questions, a million photos from days out or holidays, repeated how are you alls even when my partner has not long spoken to them on the phone.
I get so annoyed that I have to maintain our group chat with his parents, whilst he rarely puts a word into my family’s. His mom will message/call him to arrange something & then relay it into the group chat that they’ve had that conversation & what’s been decided as if me & my husband don’t talk!
I think I’m just venting & wondering whether anyone else finds their in-laws communication annoying when it’s different to what they’re used to? How do you cope with annoying group chats without intentionally blanking them?
Not long ago I decided my partner was the default responder in his parents group chat but a few days ago in our couples therapy session he dropped it on me that it doesn’t work well for him because he’s sick of answering his parents in his family group chat & then not long after in our couples one - so now he wants it to go back to me!