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[quote=Anonymous]When dealing with in-laws I try to interpret as much as possible as a compliment rather than an insult. For example, when my MIL says that my son looks so much like her son (my BIL) I think it's a compliment because she obviously likes the way her son looks. And I also think that if my child looks like her side (or she thinks he looks like her side) then she'll treat him better. This is especially true of Asian and other patriarchal foreign cultues and especially true for sons, where some feel that if a son doesn't look like the father's side, that he may not be their relative. Unfair, but as someone with an Asian background, I've seen many families where the in-laws come from abroad to visit and think that the child doesn't look enough like their side and they treat the child nice, but not as well. [/quote]
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