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41 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 20 Dec \ on: How do people live with their parents? alter_native
I have been living with my parents-in-law for about 3 weeks, coming to 4. But my situation is different from yours because right now they are in good health and I much welcome the extra pairs of hands to help take care of two very energy-sapping children. My wife doesn’t have to bear so much weight in regard to cooking and laundry - and as long-suffering husbands everywhere know, when the wife’s mood improves, the general climate of the entire household is uplifted haha.
Which is why I forwarded you some happy sats from my recent food post haha.
I suggest that you write down all the things about them that annoy the hell out of you. I suspect that when you actually put it down on black and white, you will come to regard them as minor irritants (rather than major fault-causing lines). They will also occupy less power in your mind.
Ha! I started this post this morning and abandoned it, because it was turning into a thorough description of why the things they do are so rightfully irritating.
You're probably right that the key is the wife's mood. My mom drives my wife nuts.
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Ah! Relationship management between the wife and the mum is a fragile tightrope to manage. I have no easy answers.
In Chinese, we have a saying 相见好同住难. (Xiang Jian Hao tong zhu nan)
Meaning: "It's easy to get along when meeting, but hard to live together."
So even though I’m Asian, we recognise the difficulty of living together with our extended family members. Hope you feel less alone in this struggle
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My son’s wife drove my wife nuts when she was here. Things didn’t go very well.
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