How come it is that all the most progressive and stand-up women I know still have to go out in the rain to buy cards to send to their mothers in law? After how many decades of working on equal rights and making progress for women in the workplace and equal sharing in home duties, we still end up guilt-tripped into buying the cards and flowers for our husband's mother.
Because.
We know
That if we don't
She won't get anything
For Mother's Day.
And nobody should have that
Even if we don't like her very much.
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Don't forget birthday and holiday cards/gifts! I tell myself that I'd want someone to do the same thing for me.
ReplyDeleteThis is why we who are lucky enough to have daughters need to be nice to them when they are young! It's the best guarantee that you won't fall through the holiday cracks, forever dependent on the good will of a daughter-in-law! Or perhaps no daughter-in-law, just the son. Boy, that could be worse. Is there some problem with that X chromosome and cards?
ReplyDeleteThere's some proble with that Y chromosome, period.
ReplyDeleteOoops! I got my genes on backward. How like me. What a terrible (and wrong) pun. Marie, forgive me.
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