It’s like gaining another sibling but not having to grow up with them.
The great part about in-laws, is that you don’t have to suffer through living in the same house with them for a majority of your life like you did with your real siblings. Growing up together is all cute and cuddly until there’s a fight for the remote, or the last dinner roll. With an in-law, it can be the same amount of fun, without all of the hassle. You can always send them back to your real sibling whenever you’re ready
You’ll have someone different to be in competition with.
If useful nowhere else, in-laws can be the catalyst for you to gain a new found competitive spirit. All the fun you get out of beating your other family members in games during the holidays or special occasions, can now be taken out on the new addition to your clan. It makes it even more interesting when they don’t take the thrashing without a good fight.
A new person to tell your jokes that just aren’t funny anymore.
By now everyone is tired of hearing about the “side splitting” child hood memory that you’ve been telling for ten plus years! An in-law if anything, will be an ear you can bother with your outdated and tired jokes, until they too join the majority in “it’s not funny anymore” land.
A fresh perspective on your life problems.
Sometimes family can offer you the same overly stale advice they’ve been giving you on your problems. Your new in-law could just be the key to giving a new outlook on your situation, whatever the case may be.
A new road dog to add to your roster.
Nothing like going out and enjoying yourself with someone new, even better when that person is technically related? I don’t know, but hanging out with your in-law will give you the time to bond and become annoying to each other once the newness wears off. Then they’ll become just like all your other friends, only better.
Someone to have your back.
Let’s be real for a second, we all want supportive people in our corner, and of course your sibling in-law will always go out to bat for you. When joining the family, they told your sibling they would love your family, as if it were their own. That means if one for all, all for one buddy! Expect some possible tear jerking sappy behavior to come from this as well.
They might actually be funnier than you! Who would’ve thought?
We know you’re a riot at the dinner table (insert eye roll and sarcastic cough here,) but they might actually be the jokester you never could amount to. Think of it as a plus, your parents won’t have to suffer through faking the laughs to make you feel better anymore.
They’ll make your sibling happy.
After all the years you spent tormenting your sibling with pranks like only you can (because no one else can do it without facing serious consequences!,) you’ll find great satisfaction in knowing that someone else will love them unconditionally too.
You’ll enjoy them more than you let on.
There’s this odd ritual where we’ve adopted, where we pretend hate our in-laws, but deep down we know that their actually pretty fun to be around. Unlike James (Ice Cube), you don’t have to put on this façade that you hate them. It’s ok bro, let down your guard! Even if you don’t, just admit to yourself that they’re quite rad!
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RIDE ALONG 2 will be in theaters everywhere on 1/15/16.
