My mother in law was so nice to me in the beginning, but over time she has become increasingly critical of me and talks behind my back, and I have seen more of her cranky, controlling side. I am always nice and polite to her. I just think she is nitpicky, and she seems to talk a lot about other women in the family too like her dauhgter and other daughter in law (her sons can do no wrong!). She does a lot of careless things with my babies too so I have to be careful when she visits, and she seems to really resent that I don't hand my babies over to her, and this has made the tension a lot worse.
It seems as though a lot of other married women have these gripes about their mother in laws. Why is this? I grew up with two sisters and no brothers and I don't have a son, so I don't get it. Do mother in laws have the same issues with daughter in laws as we have with them? There just seems to be so much tension on both sides and I don't know why this is an issue for so many people.
2007-04-08
15:31:39
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