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My Forward Thinking In-Laws
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Crazy Family
By Florence C. Blake
Be kind to your mother-in-law but pay for her board at some good hotel.
~Josh Billings
My mother-in-law didn’t know me well yet when I stayed at her home while my new husband was at his twelve weeks of boot camp. She became overprotective of me, and automatically assumed I’d require her constant guidance and help with everything.
But in reality, since both my parents held full-time jobs, I’d done all my family’s cooking, housework, chores, and after-school errands since age nine. I had developed organizational skills, including the habit of resetting our family clocks on the Saturday evening before every switch between standard time and daylight savings.
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