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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3694561" data-attributes="member: 704">This sounds exactly like the kind of situation that evolves into either a Cops episode or a news headline saying "Local woman found guilty of Assualt / Murder".  Highly entertaining to read about on Fark.  Extraordinarily bad for those caught up in the middle of it.First, I would say that any scheme that involves schedules and  dividing up rooms, is doomed to failure.  It sounds good on paper.  In practice, well, how many Sitcom episodes can you think of where this is tried?  (On a more general note, I strongly suggest avoiding any solution to any problem that you can recall seeing on an episode of any family sitcom or Archie Comic).I think that the only ideal solution here is for either you or your brother to find somewhere else to live.  What will eventually happen is that someone's SO is going to get either you or your brother pissed off over the constant idiocy / conflicts / cattiness, and cause you to end up fighting with your brother as each of you tries to stick up for your SO.But lets assume that at least for the short term everyone is going to have to live together.I would first suggest that the two people who have to work out this problem are yourself and your brother.  Your respective SO's are the cause of the problem here, and if they were at all capable of coming to a reasonable solution to this, they would have done so by now.  What you need to do is for you and your brother to sit down and, if you excuse the expression, Lay down the Law.1)  Make clear to your SO's that this nonsense has got to stop, and immediately.2)  You do not need them to like one another, but you need them to be able to stay in the same room alone together without pissing one another off.3)  You and your brother will not tolerate having one SO bad mouth the other.Other:- Consider implementing a swear jar equivalent for them, to be used when one bad mouths or antagonizes the other.- If anyone in the household owns guns, lock them the hell up.  Its stupid crap like this that gets people shot.- Drag them out to a paint ball field, go couple vs couple, and let them shoot at one another.This is a particularly bad situation in terms of its potential to escalate.  Even avoid the Jerry Springer type extremes, this could result in you not being able to visit your brother very often because your wife hates his (assuming everyone gets married at some point).  If your not especially fond of your brother, not a big loss though.  The reason I so strongly suggest having one couple find new accommodations is because it is generally much easier for people to get along with one another when they do not have to live together.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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