My husband wasn't divorced yet the first time I met his father in person and his father was trying to figure out what to call me. He decided on "friend-in-law". I wish I had met my husband's mother before she died. She called my husband a couple days before she died to tell him she was dying (he is eldest of 4 boys) and to ask him to tell his brothers. It was another deciding blow for my husband being stuck with me :-) if his mother called only him to trust him with her dying. They were joking on the phone with each other, remembering happier times, the rest of the call while tears are streaming down my face. I'd never heard such a warm and loving conversation in my life. My husband and his parents passed in flying colors as to how they treated women, wives, daughter-in-laws, etc.
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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance." ~Confucius
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