"Distance produces beauty", this sentence applies not only to couples, but also to the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Some daughters-in-law choose to live separately from their mother-in-law, while others choose to live with their mother-in-law.
I have a friend whose husband and I met at a full moon dinner for a colleague's child. The two hit it off at first sight, talked happily with each other, and soon entered the palace of marriage. After marriage, they are faced with a tricky question: should the mother-in-law live with them?
The friend's mother-in-law is a single mother who works as a cleaner at the hotel. Considering that it is inconvenient for her mother-in-law to live alone in the suburbs, her friend and her husband decided to buy her a small house in the opposite neighborhood so that she can visit her granddaughter often.
As it turned out, this choice did not go entirely smoothly. When my mother-in-law came to her new home, she always complained that she didn't live with them. She believes that a good son should live with his parents, not apart. However, friends and couples believe that living separately can reduce conflicts, maintain each other's independence, and be more conducive to family harmony.
In my opinion, there is no absolute right or wrong on this issue. Some mothers-in-law are willing to live with their daughters-in-law because they hope to take better care of their children, which is also a kind of expectation and dependence on their sons, while some daughters-in-law prefer to maintain a certain degree of independence and reduce conflicts between their mothers-in-law and themselves. This is the collision of different concepts of two generations, which requires more communication and understanding between the two sides.
Therefore, I suggest that whether you choose to live with your mother-in-law or live separately, both parties should respect each other's choices, communicate more, and understand more. Only with mutual tolerance and respect can families be more harmonious and happy.
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