in laws issues in marriage
not exactly besties with your mother-in-law? researchers followed 373 couples since they were first wed in 1986. in each couple, both the husband and wife rated how close they felt to their in-laws on a scale of one to four. conversely, marriages where the husband reported being close with his in-laws had a 20 percent lower probability of separation than couples where the husband reported a relationship that wasn’t as close. “when a wife sees that her husband is really …