The executives thought that the new drug, Valium, rendered their mothers-in-law significantly less annoying. |
The wards were cleared of overbearing aunts, unruly children, enthusiastic colleagues and sniffy mothers-in-law. |
And then there are these horrible power struggles that emerge between controlling mothers-in-law and the wife. |
But Apter believes mothers-in-law are genuinely unaware of the power they have in the daughter-in-laws' eyes. |
So there have been films with killer babysitters, killer roommates, killer mothers-in-law, killer husbands, etc. |
Traditional kinship terms reflect this, with different terms for the husband's parents and the wife's parents, and for the two mothers-in-law. |