Glad I am Wired Differently

I have discovered a love for google reader. I can enter all of the websites and blogs that I follow and it goes out and gets new stories and posts for me to read and puts it in one central location! My hubby has used it for quite some time, and I never really saw the point until I asked him how it worked and what it did...boy, am I glad that I did. I have been using it for about a week now and it has really helped me surf more effectively (since according to him, I have a computer addiction problem. There is probably some truth to that comment, but I am not willing to totally own up to it just yet cause that would mean that I would have to do something about it.) Anyway, foxnews had an article that intrigued me - the headline was "Women Wired to Dislike Mothers-In-Law." Here's a link if that headline intrigues you as much as it did me... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537902,00.html

Apparently, the article claims that women are predisposed to think that they are not going to get along with their mother-in-law, which causes friction and tension in that relationship. The wife and mother-in-law are allegedly fighting over the role of primary woman in the family. I must say that I am so thankful that there is either absolutely no truth to this study and someone just happened upon some data that made them think this or that God just made me to not fit the mold. I know that I have an amazing mother-in-law who loves me for me, and we get along beautifully. I view her as my second mother and I regard her highly. I also love and respect her for who she is! I am doubly blessed because I also have a terrific step-mother-in-law who is super talented and crafty and we also get along extremely well. We live further apart so I don't get to spend as much time with her, but when I do, I am always amazed at the crafts and hobbies she has picked up from the last time I saw her. Both of my mothers-in-law are also phenomenal grandmothers, and I know that little peanut is going to be blessed by having these Godly women in his/her life.

I think that scripture can also help wives and mothers-in-laws get along. I think that when a marriage is Biblically based and the husband and wife both leave their families and cleave to the spouse and the families involved know and understand this, then much of this tension can be averted(Genesis 2:24). I believe that Kevin and I have worked really hard to strive for this and I think that it helps in these extended relationships. Our families also understand this concept and again, I think it just makes things work!

I realize that not every wife and mother-in-law relationship is ideal because of personality conflicts and many other issues so there could be some truth to the study after all. I hope that this is not your case, but if it is, at least you have a study to help explain what's going on. I prefer to think in my little rose-colored glasses, glass half full world that everyone has relationships with their mother-in-law that is as good as the one I have with mine. Again, I just have to say that I am truly blessed that the study does not seem to apply to me. :)

I must also add that I love my mother very much as well. I realize that the article is about in-laws, so I failed to mention my actual mother in this post, but I want her to know how much she means to me as well. You are a wonderful, God-fearing lady and I am so blessed to have been given a wonderful foundation by you(and daddy). I thank God every day for giving me such special earthly parents who are Christian and just plain ol' good people (as Kevin would say).

So, this was not anything like what I had planned to blog on today, but that article just struck me and I felt like I needed to talk about it instead for some reason. My original blog was going to be titled "Found a Peanut." I suppose I will save that one for tomorrow.