My Ex MIL Taught Me All The Ways Not To Be A Good MIL

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Jun 01, 2022

FAMILY My Ex MIL Taught Me All The Ways Not To Be A Good MIL   Sometimes you can learn as much from a bad role model as a good one. Today Diana Park lays out all the valuable lessons she picked up from interacting with her former mother-in-law, despite the fact that their relationship was, well, not ideal: "She made passive-aggressive comments until I couldn't keep quiet, then, when I spoke up, she acted flustered, insisted she meant no harm, and cried." Sounds instructive, all right.  — Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor   Read More

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