IN LAW PROBLEM
When 2 people come together in marriage, their families also come together. It is a union of soul-mates, however, the families that the 2 of them get attached to is a very important factor that influences their lives. Sometimes in-laws are good and sometimes they are not. A woman leaves her parents, siblings who have brought her up with a lot of love, affection and pampering. After marriage she becomes part of a new family. She hopes to be loved and respected for what she is. This happens sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t.
It is all very well if she is accepted and loved and respected. More often than not this does not happen. People are complex creatures so in-laws can be difficult to adjust to. They need not be humane, good people who give the daughter-in-law her due.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship is a very sensitive and delicate relationship. Ideally, the mother-in-law should accept the daughter-in-law and treat her like a daughter. If you are lucky this may happen but if you are not then life can be hell. A difficult mother-in-law can be the bane of one’s life. She can torture, irritate, trouble the daughter-in-law. She can even influence and turn her son against his wife.
If families get together to trouble the daughter-in-law, then it can get very difficult. A young girl who has beautiful dreams of marriage and expects to share a beautiful relationship with her husband, if she has to face a hostile family every-day, all her dreams come crashing down.
