Posted on 01/30/2011 9:37:45 AM PST by traumer
A WIFE filed for divorce just a month after her wedding because her husband insisted his mother came on the honeymoon.
Beautician Marianna, 36, who can only be identified by her first name because of Italian privacy laws, thought she was free of her suffocating mother-in-law after a lavish church ceremony in Rome.
But 39-year-old Stefano, a salesman, had secretly booked his mother into the same five-star Paris hotel. The first Marianna knew about it was when the woman turned up at the airport.
The wife’s lawyer Giacinto Canzona said: “She wants a divorce because of her husband’s excessive emotional attachment to his mother.
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You need to do what you feel is right for you. Believe me, I COMPLETELY understand.
I’m trying to do what is right for me but it’s not easy, lol!
Sounds to me like an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond
Mature? Oh I get it - you mean 'old'...
Reminds me of Everybody Loves Raymond...
I did it last year for four months with a bi-polar, senile, just plain crazy mother-in-law. It was horrible and I lost my heart and mind for several months.
It’s a fascinating sub-plot.
This does sound like the plot of some kind of movie. At least the woman got out of the marriage early! Can you imagine a lifetime of that? That man is so ridiculous, and the mother-in-law should never have agreed to go.
Whoa! And I thought Japanese men had it bad!
yes--and in the Twilight Zone episode, the mother was already dead, and the groom was still overly attached...
I’m striving for standing in front of their caskets (both mom’s and dad’s) someday and saying “I was here for you even when you weren’t there for me.” Then I can bury them without guilt or remorse, and let on with my life.
Gosh - I really get you. I was lucky in that my dad was a very nice man. Unfortunately, he went before my mother. I try to do the best for her but she’s never satisfied. HANG IN THERE.
I don’t know about that, the goody two shoes are usually aminals behind closed doors, and they take a no a shi’ite from a M.I.L....It is an alpha dog moment, if someone else is occupying the spot reserved for you, there HAS TO BE a resettling of the order, no matter how old, how respected or family relationship. I could easily live with my mother or father, my wife could also. We would feel no compunction in putting them in their place, which is “you are under MY roof, and you will do what I say as long as you are living here”. It keeps them at bay, and at a respectful distance...as it should be. THAT is the key to these types of living arrangements. If you are dominated by someone other than your wife, or husband, it can NEVER work.
We have different ideas of what "mature" means!
My sympathies, sometimes though there is no other solution than for you to just march on. I cannot imagine having a running battle with an insane person in my own house. OTOH, my M I L lived with us for 3 years, before finally going to the nursing home. It drove my wife nuts for some reason, she was very sweet and non demanding. My wife thought that she was very demanding, but she never asked for anything except time. She wanted someone to watch "Wheel" or "Jeopardy", someone to visit with is all. She slept in her own room, the only thing she needed was help in and out of the bath.
There are some communities of Christians that believe in daughters living under their father’s authority until marriage, even if she is well into adulthood.
There was a thread on FR recently discussing how it was traditional for a woman to keep her maiden name as a middle name.
No, the woman takes the husbands name-period.
No more daddy's little girl.
My brothers are in their late thirties and live together in the same house. Of course, they’re twins, so they’ve been occupying the same living space most of the time since they were conceived. One’s wife and stepdaughter live there as well.
The honeymoon is for the couple, not an entourage.
Billy Graham’s wife was once asked if she had ever considered divorce. She said that she hadn’t, but murder had crossed her mind. I think that analogy kind of fits here. lol
I’m sorry I missed your pulled thread. ;o)
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