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@joXn was suggesting that they weren't that bad so much as positing a reason for their badness? (Also so far 100% of my interactions with partners' mothers have been somewhere between moderately negative and apocalyptic, but not for reasons that generalise well)
I mean I expect many/most mother in laws are fine, but it's certainly a commonly strained relationship. As far as I can tell my sibling's spouse has a perfectly good relationship with my mother, as do my partners.
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I wasn’t intending to suggest that MILs are bad in general or good in general; just that the parent/child in-law relationship is commonly strained and the common cultural trope describing that strained relationship is the “evil mother-in-law”.
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In other cultures, where ”nuclear family” propaganda hasn’t carried the field and the familial model is more extended and generational, you might see an “evil daughter/son-in-law” trope be the common expression.
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