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[quote=Anonymous]OP, just because your in-laws are wonderful, and their culture brings out the best in them, doesn't mean everyone has the same experience. A close-knit, low-boundary culture like many Asian cultures can be really tough to deal with for DILs. Certain parents will be close in positive, kind ways, and jump in and help a lot. Others will use it as license to control and criticize. I have a Vietnamese MIL too, and she has made our lives hell with her negative, controlling behaviors and mind games. The culture is pretty boundary-free, and the whole DIL as indentured servant attitude is real, and this all enables someone like her to be an absolute terror to deal with. Her sister, on the other hand, is a wonderful MIL, devoted to her kids and grandchildren, extraordinarily helpful and easy to deal with. The worst and the best of the culture in two sisters, expressed through their personalities.[/quote]
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