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处理婆媳关系的关键

Making matters worse: Mr. Brown sometimes sometimes discussed problems in his marriage with his mom. 'She would commiserate, I think, to feel close to me,' he says. 'And it increased my feelings of being slighted by my wife.'

更糟糕的是：吉姆有时会和他母亲讨论他婚姻中的问题。他说：“她会表示同情，我想，这让她感觉离我更近。这更让我觉得自己受到了妻子的怠慢。”

Mr. Brown retreated into work. He and his wife began living parallel lives, and eventually he asked for a divorce. But after they told his mother the news, she seemed to back off. Betty Wade, now 72, says she doesn't remember that her relationship with her daughter-in-law was tense or a factor in the couple's divorce discussion. 'Just because he got married didn't make him less my son, but I knew he had to spend his attention on the other lady,' she says.

吉姆借工作逃避。他和妻子开始过着平行线般的生活，最终他提出了离婚。但在他们将这一决定告诉母亲后，她似乎让步了。现年72岁的贝蒂·韦德(Betty Wade)说，她不记得自己曾经和儿媳关系紧张，也不觉得这是导致夫妇俩商讨离婚的因素之一。她说：“虽然他结了婚，但依然是我的儿子；不过我也知道，他必须要去关心另外那位女士。”

The space gave the couple a chance to work on their relationship. They sought advice from counselors at their church and went to a marriage therapist. They read self-help books and prayed together. And they stayed married.