“A daughter is a daughter, all her life. A son is a son ‘til he takes a wife.”
-Irish proverb
I love my mother-in-law. If anything were ever to happen to my relationship with her son, she would take me in, in a heartbeat (or at least that’s what she’s always said). I have two daughter-in-laws…one is like a daughter to me, the other is rather aloof. I wonder how they would describe me as a mother-in-law?
Being on both sides of this relationship, I had a hard time finding the laugh-out-loud moments in this novel. I found Allison to be selfish and a little self-centered. I know from life that there is a reason behind every behavior (20+ years of teaching middle school taught me that). Whether we realize it or not, we don’t arbitrarily react…there is always a reason. Knowing that, I knew that Margaret had her reasons for her behavior.
Point of view. Perspective. Communication. Understanding. Once we look deeper. Listen more completely. Ask the hard questions. Show compassion. Then, we begin to understand.
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