in-laws destroying BIL's marriage

[Deeba1234]

Re: in-laws destroying BIL’s marriage

@gudiaali

i don’t think so,because in the last 8-9 years at least in Pakistan the trend has shifted from joint families to nuclear families.** more and more families are now living separately from in-laws and yet the marital problems have risen up in Pakistan in the last decade like never before.**

I think it seems like they’ve risen when probably all that’s happened is that women are slowly putting up with less rubbish than our mothers and grandmothers did.. they were expected to just keep quiet and never ever complain.. Whilst divorce still isn’t totally accepted it’s more of an option than it was 20/30/40 years ago..

Also there are more nuclear families but I definitely woudn’t say that’s the norm.. In most families it’s still considered normal for the dil to move in after marriage, even it might not be forever and even when they aren’t all together there’s a tendency for the inlaws/elders to think they have the right to make decisions on behalf of other members of the family, tell them how to behave etc.