Although it’s entirely possible for married people to have wonderful relationships with their mothers-in-law, it is nonetheless sadly common for that relationship to be fraught with friction. And while the specifics of each conflict with in-laws can vary in a wide variety of bizarre ways, most of them stem from the common issue of an in-law’s unwillingness to respect the couple’s boundaries.
This phenomenon tends to be more blatant when the in-law’s own child doesn’t take a stand against it, but it’s not unheard of for a problem in-law to still act out in subtle ways when the couple acts as a united front. But rarely does this frustrating situation yield as positive of results as it did in one woman’s story.
A chance relationship
In a post to Reddit’s r/JUSTNOMIL community, a 31-year-old woman explained that she’s long had issues with her 43-year-old husband’s mother.
She also acknowledged that a significant age gap exists between them but that it’s never been an issue for the couple in their three years of marriage and six years of knowing each other.
