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[quote=YINDUFFY,298710]JimmyB,
     My mother-in-law has been widowed for at least 20 years. during that time she has been with most if not all of her sons. She has spent most of her time in Jianjiang, in the South, living with one Son ( A head cardiologist) his wife and son in a three-bedroom 4th floor apartment supplied by the hospital. There the mother-in-law never got along with the Daughter-in-law. as all my Chinese relatives live in apartments, it is not easy squeezing another person in.
   It is human nature for the wife to compete with the mother-in-law for the son / husbands attention. you can see that in the discussions about whom to save first in an emergency.
    In Western (American) society when a couple gets married, they start their own family, apart from the families of the bride and groom. They keep a respectable distance from both sets of in-laws. In fact it is considered humiliating in the U.S. to have the wife's mother live with the family. There are many jokes about the poor husband in these circumstances.
    Ideally, the parents would "let them live their own lives." and not get too involved in day-to-day affairs.[/quote]

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