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Dear Moms Who Hate Their Mother-in-Law, Here’s Why You Shouldn’t
Just a friendly reminder of the future!
When I met my ex-husband’s family, I was very excited for a good relationship with my mother-in-law. My mom had a great relationship with hers. In fact, my grandmother had great relationships with all her children’s spouses. She made sure they all felt welcomed and loved and I hoped my mother-in-law would do the same.
She did not.
She didn’t like me from the moment she met me, unfortunately. I tried for quite a while to forge a friendly, or even civil, relationship with her, but it never happened. I eventually gave up.
I will freely admit that I didn’t like her. I can’t say how much of my dislike for her was about her as a person and how much was about the fact that she didn’t like me first. But I didn’t like her.
But here’s the thing. As someone who is about to become a mother-in-law myself, you might want to watch what you say and express because you’ll be surprised at how it might bite you in the ass later.
“I’m living with one of your kids.”
This is a statement I see a lot from moms who don’t like their mother-in-law. Specifically, it’s part of a larger statement, usually around the fact that…
