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[quote=Anonymous]I have an Asian MIL. She's very, very nice, but it's true that culturally her boundaries are nothing like what I would expect, as a WASP. She has no boundaries by my standards. She and her cohort believe that parents own everything a child has, and the child owes the parents everything and must do as the parents ask. She feels she has the right to move into our house and run things. She desperately wants to move into our house, and her son cannot tell her no. The only reason she hasn't yet is that I've worked hard to show her that she wouldn't be comfortable, that I wouldn't kowtow to her as she expects. that we'd all be miserable, and that I'd keep things my way. Even a nice Asian mother-in-law can be a nightmare, in a way. Her son cannot say anything to her, because it's culturally forbidden, so I am the bad guy, and she takes it out on me. [/quote]
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