The age-old tension between parents and their son’s wife has been ranked as one of the major causes of long-term estrangement in families according to new Cambridge University research.
A unique study of long-term rifts in families in Britain found that parents are not only more likely to lose contact with male children than female children after they get married but that the clash is as likely to centre around the son’s in-laws are as his wife.
Didn’t that great scientist of the human condition point this out some time ago, the late Les Dawson?
We have a family tradition. In disputes, the son/daughter in-law is always right. So far, it’s worked.
Don’t sons tend to marry someone resembling their mothers? What’s the odds of two domineering women getting on?
“Don’t sons tend to marry someone resembling their mothers?”
I’m wondering how many people have just had a very unexpected light shone into a dark corner of their psyche.
@: Ljh & john square
There is also a widespread claim that women marry men like their fathers. Both could be due to men inheriting certain dispositions from their fathers and women inheriting some from their mothers.
If either of those are true then good luck to whoever marries one of Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner’s kids.
I used to quite look forward to visits from the mother-in-law. Two women screaming at each other non stop, for a week, in high speed french.
Gave me a break from being on the receiving end.
““Don’t sons tend to marry someone resembling their mothers?”
“I’m wondering how many people have just had a very unexpected light shone into a dark corner of their psyche.”
Oddly enough, my name was the same as her father’s. And her name was the same as my mother’s.
Mmm….
My father, source of much practical wisdom, told me this stunning research result when I was scarcely out of short trousers. In fact, isn’t there a folk saying to that effect – something about two women in one kitchen?
Tim
You could advance the same criticism at about 90% of micro-economics, couldn’t you?
Making a man choose between his mother or his wife is a pretty stupid situation to get yourself into, yet people seem to keep doing it