Vying for position when your son or daughter marries into another family.
According to research by Dr Terri Apter at the University of Cambridge, 75% of couples have problems with an in-law. Surprisingly in most of these cases – despite the mileage that comedians such as Les Dawson have achieved from attacking the wife’s mother over the years – it’s not the relationship that a woman has with her son-in-law that is particularly tense. In 60% of families, most of the conflict with the in-laws exists between the mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law. Dr Apter joins Sheila McLennon and therapist Marj Thoburn to discuss her findings and to give advice on how to get on with the in-laws.
What Do You Want from Me?: Learning to Get Along With In-laws by Dr Terri Apter will be published in September by W W Norton & Company.
ISBN-10:0393066975 and ISBN-13:978-0393066975
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