Advice for Dealing With Interfering In-Laws?
Our Patch questioner needs ideas for coping with her in-laws and their religious differences. Can you help?
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Help me Handle my In-laws and our Religious Differences
It's one thing if your mother-in-law doesn't think your house is clean enough. Questioning your faith and the spiritual upbringing of your kids is another. Do you have any advice?
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Moms Talk
Help me Handle my In-laws and our Religious Differences
It's one thing if your mother-in-law doesn't think your house is clean enough. Questioning your faith and the spiritual upbringing of your kids is another. Do you have any advice?
Moms Talk is a weekly feature on all Lehigh Valley Patches in which local parents, caregivers and other members of the community are invited to share opinions and advice on parenting topics. This week’s Moms Talk question relates to inter-faith marriages and coping with the in-laws. Basic etiquette rules list religion among those topics to be avoided at dinner parties. But what about at family gatherings? This week’s Moms Talk question comes to us from a regular Moms Talk reader and commenter who needs some advice on a sticky family situation that she is dealing with. She has one set of religious beliefs. Her husband another. Her in-laws yet another. She and her spouse are “good” with the whole religion situation. Her in-laws however, are …
Bette Isacoff
6:36 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012
It is important for you not to engage when your in-laws start making comments, It is up to your husband to handle his parents. My mother-in-law took thirty-seven years to decide, on her deathbed, that I was a good wife to her son and mother to her grandchild. (I am Catholic, as is my daughter; my husband is Jewish.) I simply stated, calmly and respectfully and ONCE, that our baby would be … more ›