Well I certainly sympathize with your DIL here OP. My MIL was pressuring DH to go for a PhD for the first three years of our marriage. She didn't fully let up even after our first child was born. Every time she bugged DH about it, she phrased it as "when" he's going to get around to it, not as a genuine question of whether he's interested. It annoyed the heck out of me because it seemed like she just wanted to be able to tell her friends that her son has a PhD, and didn't care about what he son actually wanted, or whether the family he had chosen to created with me was cared for. In the early years, DH considered his mother's advice out of respect for her, but thankfully we're both now on the same page that major life decisions like that are meant to be decided between a husband & wife.
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