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[quote=Anonymous]I am straight but have a Taiwanese MIL, and it's tough. My approach is to just kind of stop caring, let my DH handle the the interactions (which drives her nuts, for some reason), and put on a happy face when we see each other. I'm lucky, because they've stopped visiting, and my DH can't understand why--because it's unpleasant for both parties, even though it's not out in the open. Unlike the other PP's experience, my MIL has never let things go, she blames me for not being able to communicate with her grandchildren (they don't speak Chinese, she'd never consider learning English or teaching them Chinese). She is always focused on the negatives, on what she doesn't have or comparing herself to other people, like her brother, whose grandkids speak with him, because he spends half the year in the U.S., which she just wasn't willing to do (and I'd suck it up, if she were).

In any case, maybe it'd make you feel better than being gay is just the focus of your MIL's issues, but if you weren't, it would be something else, like being the wrong ethnic group or whatever. Acceptance of differences isn't part of Chinese culture. [/quote]

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