Memories of Mother In Law Stuff

When I was first married, my husband was more worried about what his mother thought of me than I was! I remember him watching me cut the lettuce for a salad, and telling me that his mother always tore her lettuce (she wasn't coming for dinner or anything). I also had real short hair and a little "fall" I wanted to wear, to make my hair look long. He told me disapprovingly that his mother would never go for that kind of fake look.

(I will bite my tongue here from making any comments about his second wife - who was beautiful but.....bite bite bite)

My second husband when watching me tear the lettuce as I had now become accustomed to do said, "What are you doing? My mother doesn't do that - you're supposed to cut it."

So, some of the problems DIL's have with their mother in laws may be fed to them from their husbands, without the MIL's even knowing or caring!