In-Law Relationships Quotes

There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

I get along so well with my wife's mom.

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

Patrick Wilson is my brother-in-law - we married sisters.

But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

And there’s one more thing to be aware of ” Cam said with a wintry softness that disguised all hint of feeling. “If you succeed in marrying her we’re not losing a sister. You’re gaining an entire family—who will protect her at any cost.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

I got lucky: I love my in-laws.