I've been catching up on the internet filters thread, and I pretty much agree with what was being said. On down the line the discussion shifted to future mothers-in-law. Ok, listen to the voice of experience. A few years ago when WMM and I decided to share our futures, she took me to meet her parents. I had heard the mother-in-law stories. I found her parents to be a down-to-earth, friendly farm couple. Her mother liked to cook and she was good at it. She also loved flowers. Now, I like to eat, and I'm good at it, but the flowers had more possibilites. Just for conversation, I started asking about the various houseplants that she had and we discussed them at length. By the time WMM and I were married, she was convinced that I was a plant person. It was safe common ground for a son-in-law, mother-in-law conversation. By the time spring rolled around, she was giving me geraniums, marigolds and sweet pepper plants. I grew them in pots around the trailer in the campus trailer park. We got off to a good start and have been really good friends ever since. She still supplies me with pepper plants, tomatoes and flowers and I take her bags of compost, pumpkins, and green beans. She's a vigorous, health 83-year-old now and I'm sure there has never been a cross word between us.
The moral to this story is, get along with your in-laws and your marriage has a far better chance of success. Find a common ground like I did and make it work. You won't be sorry.
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