"I just don't like my daughter-in-law," the neighbor said recently.
"It seems that everything she does annoys me," she continued.
She mentioned some specifics that irritated her about her daughter-in-law of many years. They were things about her house-keeping, child-raising, wasteful spending, careless regard for property, and a few others.
After her lengthy diatribe, she paused for a moment and then she said,
"Truthfully, I think the whole problem is that she reminds me of ME as a younger wife and I don't like what I was!"
Had the neighbor hit on something in her moment of reflection?
Do WE ALL not like someone because they are - in some ways - a mirror image of ourselves?
Because, the truth is, sometimes it IS difficult to see ourselves in a mirror.
"It seems that everything she does annoys me," she continued.
She mentioned some specifics that irritated her about her daughter-in-law of many years. They were things about her house-keeping, child-raising, wasteful spending, careless regard for property, and a few others.
After her lengthy diatribe, she paused for a moment and then she said,
"Truthfully, I think the whole problem is that she reminds me of ME as a younger wife and I don't like what I was!"
Had the neighbor hit on something in her moment of reflection?
Do WE ALL not like someone because they are - in some ways - a mirror image of ourselves?
Because, the truth is, sometimes it IS difficult to see ourselves in a mirror.
1 comment:
I've thought hard about this post. I am the polar opposite of my daughter-in-law, either now or in the past. My son loves her, she gave me my grandchildren and so I love her too. Not always easy. It is frustrating, but certainly manageable.
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