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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman. Hi. This is Crazy Mother-in-Law Stories. Whoa. Yes. I don't have one. You don't have one, yeah.
So I can't relate and I can't say after listening that I'm sad I don't have one. Okay, well, I guess that's the question. Not having one, do you think it made you less interested in the stories? Yes. No, I was just as interested, but it was cautionary tale. Yeah, because I love horrible bosses' stories, and I don't have a horrible boss.
True. Also, father-in-laws, too. I think I'm a lone wolf now. Because? Because of these episodes. Oh, you're never going to get married after hearing these. So this is for you a cautionary tale. So I guess maybe if you want to get married, don't listen to this. That's a fair warning. Look, it's the reality of life. Dive right in.
It's a lottery. You hit the jackpot. Well, it's probably neutral more than anything else. Yet nobody loves their mother-in-law more than the kid loves their mom. You know what I mean? It's a uniquely weird dynamic. Yeah. Yeah.
Like as much as I love my parents so much, and I do think they're great, and I think they'd be a great mother-in-law and father-in-law, my husband isn't going to like them as much as I do.
Well, I don't know. I don't know about that because I've been around them before, and I'm just a pig in shit, and you can be annoyed while I'm actually happy. So it could be, and then you could resent your husband. Okay, I'm going to take back the word like, love. They're not going to love my parents as much as I do. They might like them more. Good distinction.
But they just, you know, it's the way it goes. This is life. You can't expect it. It's primal. It does make you think about, though, how most of mankind operated where someone completely left their family group and went and joined another family. And then that was it. You might see them at a festival once a year. But you left, and now this is your new family. It probably worked better then.
In the same way that arranged marriages work better, like they kind of are more successful. Yeah, but that's different from not having your parents. Like if it's your only option, you probably go like, well, fuck, I got to get with the program. Yeah. As opposed to, I still got my parents and these ones are not. I don't know. This is a tough.
This is a tough one. Don't listen. Please don't listen to crazy mother-in-laws.
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