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"Live-in" son-in-law #1 (permalink) Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:37 am   "Live-in" son-in-law		  
Hi

Is there any spicific term for the husband who lives in his wife's house(with his in-laws)?

What about live-in son in law/ husband?

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"Live-in" son-in-law #2 (permalink) Thu Jun 29, 2006 19:26 pm   "Live-in" son-in-law		  
Live-in son-in-law, husband, etc. sounds fine to me. Besides, I can't think of more appropriate term.
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"Live-in" son-in-law #3 (permalink) Thu Jun 29, 2006 20:52 pm   "Live-in" son-in-law		  
I agree with Conchita. I don't think there is any specific term for this.

But I don't think I'd ever say "live-in husband" since that's normally the expected status of a husband. Laughing

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Live-in hubby #4 (permalink) Thu Jun 29, 2006 21:00 pm   Live-in hubby		  
Yankee wrote:
But I don't think I'd ever say "live-in husband" since that's normally the expected status of a husband. Laughing

Quite right too Laughing ! I hadn't realised the absurdity of this expression -- it sounds as if you might also have a live-out hubby on the side somewhere!!
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"Live-in" son-in-law #5 (permalink) Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:17 pm   "Live-in" son-in-law		  
Tom wrote:
Is there any spicific term for the husband who lives in his wife's house(with his in-laws)?

The specific term for this is a husband who lives in his wife's house with his inlaws.

Since it's relatively unusual in the West for a married couple to live with parents or inlaws, there is no term for this, just as we have no term for a person who is paid to carry one's lunch from one's home to one's office. We don't have it, so there's no term.

The term live-in husband is quite nonsensical.

It might be possible to say live-in son-in-law, but it would generally make sense only if the inlaws used this term or if you had explained the situation before you used the term.
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