Six in 10 women admit to having a strained relationship with their mother-in-law, a study by Cambridge University found.
My mother-in-law Irene and I couldn’t be more different. She believes a woman should be a domestic goddess and ‘look after their man’, while I’m a feminist who thinks life’s just too short to scrub skirting boards and make Yorkshire puddings from scratch.
I love my mother-in-law. Without her I wouldn’t have my husband Brian, 51, or my two teenage boys, 17 and 13. She’s tough, bright and, at 80, still has more marbles than most people start with. But she also, starring Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez as warring daughter and mother-in-law. We both howled with laughter and admitted that things could be worse.