Having had both good and bad personal experiences with in-laws and having observed friends in identical situations, I felt this article would be of interest to many readers. It discusses the results of research conducted by Iowa State University on the "correlation between relationships with in-laws and the long-term success of marriages."
First appearing in the Journal of Marriage and Family and shown on the web at Divorce Magazine.com, the study:
". . . suggests that marriages in which the husbands do not get along with their mothers-in-law are not as likely to last. A mother-in-law can have an influence that lasts as far as 20 years into the marriage . . . ."
It's puzzling to me that I've found little other mention of the impact resulting from a mother-in-law's influence on a marriage. The subject seems worthy of additional study.
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