I'd like people to present their views on sharing the same accommodation for long periods of time with wife and her mother.
Personally, I find this very very challenging!
My mother-in-law stays at our place for about 5 months in total every year. She is single and takes care after our child. Accommodation is not that small, but I still have to give away my study room for her bedroom. I often need to do work at home, and when she is there, I work at the dinner table or simply on the lap.
Therefore, NO PRIVACY.
As a single woman, she is not at ease with men in general. It is better not to comment on her way of tiding up the house, otherwise she would blow up at me.
Therefore, NO PEACE OF MIND.
If I stop doing house work for some time, she grows more negative towards me (as if I incurred more work on her daughter, which is possibly a sort of an instinct). So, I have to prevent her from doing things in the house that I do anyway when she is away.
Thus I still have to do my usual house work while losing both privacy and peace of mind.
Mother-in-law will carry on with her visits. I have to make them less painful...
Personally, I find this very very challenging!
My mother-in-law stays at our place for about 5 months in total every year. She is single and takes care after our child. Accommodation is not that small, but I still have to give away my study room for her bedroom. I often need to do work at home, and when she is there, I work at the dinner table or simply on the lap.
Therefore, NO PRIVACY.
As a single woman, she is not at ease with men in general. It is better not to comment on her way of tiding up the house, otherwise she would blow up at me.
Therefore, NO PEACE OF MIND.
If I stop doing house work for some time, she grows more negative towards me (as if I incurred more work on her daughter, which is possibly a sort of an instinct). So, I have to prevent her from doing things in the house that I do anyway when she is away.
Thus I still have to do my usual house work while losing both privacy and peace of mind.
Mother-in-law will carry on with her visits. I have to make them less painful...
