Oh really? 
Because what I mostly hear from saases of today is that they had it pretty hard in their times and we are enjoying times of luxury. No matter how hard you work, you can NEVER work as hard as them. You can NEVER have worse in laws as them [but ofcourse], you could NEVER have the pressures of married life as they did, and boy was it hard to raise their children while our just grow up on their own.
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Desis seriously lack this thing called perspective.
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Pms?
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Who is PMSing?
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I don't get that from my saas. She recognizes the women these days have it so much to juggle.
They have careers, higher education and kids. They have no help.
She does however hint :) that MEN these days help out around with the house and the kids wayyyyyyyyyyyy more than her generation.
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Yes, but that's because the men too realize that the women are working harder and bringing home as much income as they are.
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my saas is truly what I would call the bahu of today's times. She worked, she studied, she raised naughty boys all alone when my FIL wasn't around or was posted to some other city. But she herself didnt have a 'saas' :p
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Yeah imagine yourself, with 30 In-Laws living in a house with no cable and no cell phones, No entertainment except for crappy songs that come on the broken Radio that she received as her jahez. Shes always in the kitchen cooking they hardly ever go out THERE ARE NO ACs! Its 19 freakin 68 and Pakistan's infrastructure looks like one of the scenes from Back to the Future Movies! Not a pretty sight No one can ever top that!
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lucky shee ... :D
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I thought you were :(. Sowiee!
But that’s a fact:).
I know eh! 
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ZK, my MIL is a lovely lady mashaAllah. She does have her moments of that stuff but not at the cost of putting her bahus down. :D
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the number of chilli sauces we have now 
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Oh yes, I have heard the stories.
Aray tumne vo vaqt kahan dekha jo humne dekha hai...tum logon ke liye kitni asaniyan hein...
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You can not ridicule everything just because its coming from SASOO MAA's mouth. Fact is that
1) Women these days have many more luxries their SASOO maas ever had
2) Husband are more adjusting and helping these days than they used to be in old days.
There is no harm in accepting the fact. Friction emerges when both SAAS and BAHOO keep on insisting on their points without realizing that what they are saying is right but at the same time what other person is saying is also right.
If BAHOO does not listen to the argument of "araay tum nai wo mushkileen kahaan daikheen jo hum nai daikheen", then SAAAS does not listen to the argument that "bahoo is contributing more to the family now than just food". If one take a step back and think for a second, both are saying their half truth.
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What D6C said.
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You can not ridicule everything just because its coming from SASOO MAA's mouth. Fact is that
1) Women these days have many more luxries their SASOO maas ever had
2) Husband are more adjusting and helping these days than they used to be in old days.
There is no harm in accepting the fact. Friction emerges when both SAAS and BAHOO keep on insisting on their points without realizing that what they are saying is right but at the same time what other person is saying is also right.
If BAHOO does not listen to the argument of "araay tum nai wo mushkileen kahaan daikheen jo hum nai daikheen", then SAAAS does not listen to the argument that "bahoo is contributing more to the family now than just food". If one take a step back and think for a second, both are saying their half truth.
I don't have a saas, but I absolutely understand and agree that my mother's life as a married woman with children was certainly more restricted yet challenging than sisters who are also married with kids. Since I wasn't born yesterday, I have no reason to ridicule, dismiss and have my doubts about my mother's life and experience because its a fact, a universal one. You can ask a Holy Westerner from a generation before and she'd probably say the same thing.
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never got anything like that from my saas except once she said that few decades ago weather conditions used to be more hard and coz they didn't have disposable nappies in those days it was hard to raise kids.....
And I agreed with her but then I went into intellectual mode and started to think about all the harm disposable nappies have done to the environment and also it has made parents lazy so now all my kids are out of nappy age but if I have another kid in future I'd use Eco Friendly Nappies.
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My mother in law never changed a single diaper (and she has 6 kids). Life sure was hard :/
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Well it was hard because they had to clean the pee on the floor. Of course handwashing and drying cloth diapers is hard.
Some things were harder for them and some things are harder for this generation. We should meet half-way.