#in-law-relationships

#in-law-relationships

My mother is a nurse and has asthma and was deeply hit with mental and emotional stress from the pandemic. She would not attend most wedding planning events and would always be concerned with germs, wearing an N95 mask and keeping her distance. My wife had a completely opposite reaction to the pandemic. It was more of a nuisance to her. In her eyes, there was no threat.

He approached my wife and me and said, We're not into social media. I did not glean from this that he meant we should post nothing at all. To share the good news with my friends, I did post one photo. Late the next night he texted us to take it down, saying, We asked you directly not to do this. I replied, I'm sorry, I didn't understand that I was not to post anything at all.

It doesn't mean you don't love them. It doesn't mean they're not welcome," Green, an occupational therapist, explained in the video. She went on to describe the desire for time with "your own kids, the ones you raised, the ones you survived life with, the ones you rocked through teething and heartbreak and their first apartment," adding that such relationships "deserve their own space too.