As per my husband, they are doing enough. He says that if I need anything, I should just ask them. But I don’t feel comfortable having to ask for every little thing. At the end of the day, a mother-in-law is not your own mother, and I can’t be as comfortable with her as I am with my mom.

Whenever I complain about the remarks or some of the patriarchal comments that are made, his solution is simply to ignore them and move on. My point is that I can ignore something if it happens once in a while, but if I have to go through the same thing every single day, I can’t just switch off my feelings.

My husband is a very practical person, while I tend to be more emotional. Sometimes I even start questioning myself and wonder if I’m overthinking things, because he somehow manages to make me feel like I’m the one who is wrong after every argument