Family rifts are most likely caused by parents not getting on with their son's wife

supergamer422 · 2015-12-10T15:04:15+00:00

This is often because the wife has a high conflict personality type and alienates the in laws to control her husband.

zyk0s · 2015-12-10T15:34:15+00:00

The trope of the awful mother-in-law exists for a reason. Dalrock had some great insights here and here. The dynamic makes perfect sense once it is understood:

guy is brought up in a typical modern family, where his mother wears the pants and his father is pussy-whipped
guy learns to emulate his father's passivity and obey his mother, becoming somewhat of a mama's boy
guy manages to get a girl to be interested in him, and adopts the same passivity he's operated on all his life
mother, who is used to complete control over son, realizes he's now being controlled by another woman, feels animosity towards her
girlfriend/wife senses that, also feels her control over guy is threatened, creates drama to try to bring him back to "her side"
guy tries to please everyone, attempts to placate both side, which causes even more drama and reinforces his passivity and powerlessness
guy becomes a father, son gets raised in a typical modern family, the cycle repeats

TheDude41 · 2015-12-13T09:03:37+00:00

A lot of married women are control freaks, which of course leaves the husband and his parents with a lot of well-justified resentment.

If a woman and her parents parents are jackasses, a male usually is forced to put up to it and is allowed few opportunities to object or complain.

Title	Family rifts are most likely caused by parents not getting on with their son's wife
Author	TR6Cool
Upvotes	46
Comments	31
Date	December 10, 2015 8:00 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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