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This article was published 11/06/2016 (3448 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: My mother-in-law is a great person, but she and my wife are always in a fights over who’s right on every subject, from which brand of toothpaste to use, how a person should dress and who knows best about all the child-raising issues.
You would think after eight years around these two that I would be all right with it, but I came to the end of the road last night for no particular reason. I said to both of them that I would never listen to another one of their arguments. I left halfway through Sunday dinner and went home. My wife came flying home after me and she had told her mother off, big time. I told her she was equally to blame and I wasn’t going to listen to anything they said to each other now, or ever again.
I am a mild man, but when I hit the end of my fuse there’s no going back. If this continues I will leave and buy another house, and she knows I have the funds to do so. My wife thinks I’ve lost my mind. This has happened about three times in my life and I never went back on what I warned the person. What do you think?
— Mr. Unpopular, Westwood
Dear Mr. Unpopular: When people like you, who have an extra-long fuse, finally blow, everyone should take it seriously. In the next few weeks, underline this. Hold your hand up like a stop sign if your wife starts in with her mother. You need to train the two of them out of this behaviour. There will be a few small mistakes. Just stop them before you have to walk anywhere. They may find another place to fight and you could suggest a psychologist’s office for their mother-daughter strife. It is no longer your problem. Some day they may thank you, or not.
Please send your questions and comments to lovecoach@hotmail.com or Miss Lonelyhearts c/o the Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6
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