BBC premarital counseling booklet-1 - Flipbook - Page 43
7.
Accept your in-laws as they are. Remember that they would probably like to make
changes in you, too.
8.
Mother-in-laws have been close to their children before marriage. Give them time to
find new interests in life.
9.
Go into marriage with a positive attitude toward your in-laws. Believe that it is a good
family to marry into and plan to enjoy your new family.
10.
Give advice to your in-laws only if they ask for it. Even then, use restraint.
11.
Discuss the faults of your spouse only with him, not with your family.
12.
Do not quote your family, or hold them up as models to your spouse.
13.
Remember that it takes at least two people to increase in-law problems. No one person
is ever entirely to blame.
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