13 Dec In-Laws: My Mom Doesn’t Respect My Wife
On this episode of the “Covered” Marriage Podcast, we are answering a letter from a concerned husband. His mother doesn’t respect his wife and his wife is FED UP. What Should he do?! Listen in as we give him advice to his letter below.
Dear Kenyon and Taccara,
I love you guys’ podcast and I REALLY love how you guys seem to be really fair with the fellas. SO I have a question for you. How would you advise a man to handle a relationship with his mother when it’s damaging his relationship with his wife?
My mom is my heart. She raised me and my brothers alone. Has survived cancer TWICE and is an amazing picture of strength. I’d do anything for her and she would do anything for me, except love my wife for the amazing woman she is.
At first it started out as typical “mother-in-law” stuff where my mom would avoid connecting with my wife, criticize my wife’s cooking or joke about my weight gain since i married her. WE would brush it off and ignore it mostly. Now, she’s downright rude and my wife demands i do something, but i don’t know what.
She calls my wife names, has turned the family against her, and when she had my wife and our new daughter over for Christmas, she bought EVERYONE something except my wife…
She doesn’t realize how it’s hurting my marriage. My wife has threatened to leave. I asked about counseling but she said counseling would do no good since the problem is my mom, not our marriage.
Again, she says i need to do SOMETHING, but i don’t know what!
Help!
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