Over 25 years of marriage have taught my husband and me how to adjust to each other’s families.

by Don Meredith I can still remember meeting Sally’s parents for the first time–only one week before the wedding. We met and dated in a different state than Sally’s home, and…

I can still remember meeting Sally’s parents for the first time–only one week before the wedding. We met and dated in a different state than Sally’s home, and we were engaged…

We are admonished to honor our parents (Exodus 20:12). If we are single, our responsibility is to our own parents; but if we are married, our responsibility is not only…

We drove to Atlanta last week to visit my wife’s family. And even as I write those words, they feel odd, because the reality is that they are now my…

The second year of my son’s marriage, he and his wife had Thanksgiving with us. My daughter-in-law made a delicious sweet potato casserole. My mother and I complemented her on it…

Something happens the moment a bride says, “I do.” Not only does she get a husband, but in most cases, a mother-in-law as well. Bonds between some daughters- and mothers-in-law…

by Carole Geckle I love my daughter-in-law Stephanie, but the beginning of our relationship reads more like a bad mother-in-law joke than a recipe for success. The story has even…

Barbara and I were having dinner with four couple friends of ours. As the evening progressed, one friend tol about his struggle with a sister, who at the age of…