UK: 'Why women don't see the funny side of their mothers-in-law'

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2008-12-01 08:53

Article here. Excerpt:

"A study of hundreds of families has found that mothers are far more likely to feud with a daughter-in-law than a son-in-law.

Nearly two-thirds of daughters-in-law accused their husband's mother of 'unreasonably jealous maternal love'.

A similar proportion of mothers-in-law complained they had been isolated and excluded by a female addition to the family.
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She said: 'As they struggle to achieve the same position in the family as primary woman, each tries to establish or protect their status, each feels threatened by the other.

'Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict often emerges from an expectation that each is criticising or undermining the other. But this mutual unease may have less to do with actual attitudes and far more to do with persistent female norms that few of us manage to shake off completely.'"

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I mean it has to be, right? If you have a wife fighting with her mother-in-law then OBVIOUSLY it's the guy's fault and he's created the situation this conflict breeds in...

Seriously, this basically reduces down to 'women are control freaks'. The mother tries to control her son and his wife, the wife tries to control her husband and his mum. Most blokes put up with a certain amount of control from both - but basically women detest being controlled by another woman. Says it all, really.

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Submitted by GaryB on Mon, 2008-12-01 22:23