Many a times women are scared when they get married and for a good reason. Its not about meeting expectations on their wedding night, it’s about the age old phenomenon of landing in laws from hell. What always comes between women and their in laws?

You must have guessed it right. It’s the idea of sharing that man with another woman. Your mother may be a very good woman, a wonderful soul to say the least, but the idea of sharing his beloved son with a stranger who may mistreat him actually scares her stiff. She feels the need to protect her son in a way; she feels the urge to continue taking care of her now fully grown son. How it pisses her daughter in law, how it drives her crazy, but then, she can’t help it. The feeling of her daughter in law having stolen her boy from her remains for a long time and may actually breed hostility.

Sons adore their mothers. Very few men can claim to be hostile to their mothers or at best indifferent because mothers represent the most adorable side of feminism. Mothers remain the best thing that the world ever presented to man. When this strong attachment continues long after marriage, the young wife raises eyebrows. She doesn’t like the idea of competing for attention with the old woman whose cooking and tenderness she might never surpass. To her, mother in law becomes another woman out to snatch her man away and feelings of hostility come in. Can women help it?

I don’t think so. Unlike men who are very polygamous and are more willing to share women, women are less likely to accept the rivalry presented by the in laws from hell. Woe unto them if the man has a couple of sisters or more. Sisters in law are less likely to accept their brother’s wife for the same reason. They have grown up with him and love his undivided attention. Why should a stranger spoil the party for them?

In laws never seem to have originated from the same planet. The best advice would be to stay away from them and only visit them once in a while, however the fights may continue till you either divorce your wife or divorce your family. Which one would you rather choose? I hope none.