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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people should walk into in-law relationships with a positive attitude. In my family, in-law relationships are anything but toxic. Were my grandparents perfect? No, but my mother had a wonderful relationship with my dad's parents and my father treated my mom's parents with the same respect he treated his parents. They modeled what an in-law relationship should look like so when I got married, I expected to have the same type of relationship. And I do--my ILs are awesome. My MIL is one of the best people I know and I think of her as my second mom.

Maybe I'm just extremely lucky but in my family, there is no such thing as an in-law. Once you marry in, you are family. Period. [/quote]

Good anecdotes but didn't add to the topic.[/quote]

No, we are talking about hypothetical in-laws here, not someone who is trying to deal with an actual situation. The OPs point is that women are conditioned to dread ILs even before they are married because of the way that the relationship is portrayed in society and the media (especially here on DCUM). My "addition" is that this perception is simply false for many families and in reality, it's not always a bad relationship if you just walk into it with an open mind. That is not to say that all IL relationships are like my family but you don't walk into marriage thinking you are going to get a divorce--why walk into a family thinking it will be awful. It might not be but many single women who are in hypothetical marriages automatically have this perception because of society, not actual experience. [/quote]

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