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Friday, March 13, 2015

Dealing with difficult in-laws

Make up your mind not to win the war and lose your marriage.
Gift items at an Igbo traditional marriage ceremony


First of all, you have to establish that you and your in-laws want the same thing-which is the happiness of the person you both love- your husband and their son or your wife and their daughter, but you all are going about it, from different points of view and this can lead to communication breakdown.
The key is for you to bear in mind that your in-laws are not “difficult” people, but just different. Keep the success of your marriage as your major goal while trying to build a cordial relationship with your in-laws. Secondly make up your mind not to win the war and lose your marriage.
Any trait you easily identify in others is also in you. It is called the mirror principle.
Here are some tips that can help you win your in-laws over.