My son, Paul, and I are so close that I even wrote a book about the mother-son bond. When he told me he was going to marry his long-time sweetheart Afroz, I expressed my worry that our relationship would change in a NextTribe article. To address my concerns, I dedicated time and energy into figuring out how to be a good mother-in-law.
I was confident in my prediction—we would stay close. Paul is a wonderful son, and I assumed he’d be a wonderful husband. Love was not a zero-sum game. It would be easy. Of course all this bravado belied a basic truth: I knew exactly nothing about what it would be like.
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