Her husband also tried to say that his mother stays in her room often anyway, so it wouldn’t “be any different” having her in their home. She, on the other hand, wholeheartedly disagrees and cannot understand why her husband believes moving in together would be a good idea.
At the end of the day, she married her husband, not him and his mother, as a package deal, and she wants it to stay that way. She told him that, too.
“Our home is my comfort where our little family can be fully in peace together. I would rather be divorced than take in an in-law or even my own parents forever,” she said.
She clarified how, of course, if her mother-in-law had health issues or couldn’t live alone and needed help, that would be a different story. However, that’s simply not the case.
Her husband is not what she calls a “mommy’s boy” at all, either, which is why she suspects the whole living arrangement wouldn’t last.
“They will both go well over a month without talking to each other, not even a simple text,” she revealed.
“I am usually the one to say, ‘It’s been a while since you heard from your mom. You should give her a call.”
Conversely, she talks to both of her parents every single day and loves them to pieces. Despite that, she’d never even want to live with her own parents unless they genuinely needed assistance.
Still, she and her husband obviously have differing opinions on this situation, and now, she’s wondering if saying she’d rather get divorced than live with her mother-in-law made her a jerk.
Does her mother-in-law moving in sound like it would work out? What advice would you give her?
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