My Question of the Day: Up until you purchased your new home, your fiance and children lived with your soon-to-be in-laws. Your children have allergies/asthma and the major motivation for moving them from their current living situation was that your fiance’s parents smoke. Even though they know it makes the children sick, when they lived with your soon-to-be in-laws the children’s grandparents refused to go outside to smoke. You couldn’t complain then because it was your fiance’s parents’ house. Now that you have your own place, your fiance is pushing you to allow the parents to smoke inside your home when they visit. What do you do?

(this question was submitted by @rahsheen; thanks, Yoda!)

My 2 Cents: I’m not going to even spend a whole lot of time with this one. The answer is NO, point blank and period.

NO ONE will be smoking in the house, whether they live there or are visiting.

They can’t even smoke near the house as far as I’m concerned. If you want to smoke, go out to the furthest edge from the house, whether that be the back or front yard and smoke. I don’t have respiratory issues, but I abhor the smell of smoke, so I don’t even want anyone smoking on my porch, let alone in my house.

Honestly, and call me anal if you like, I would have reservations getting married to someone whose parents smoke, since I know that would mean I (and any potential children we have) would be spending some time with them for holidays, vacations, visits, etc. Cigarette smoke makes me (and I’m not exaggerating) physically  ill, and I detest the smell of it in my hair and on my clothes and skin. Yuck!

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