A married woman will go to her parent's home with her husband for a short visit, after exchanging pleasantries, everyone will start running around to make sure their son in-law is comfortable.

He will be well fed, well entertained and well taken care of.
No one expects him to lift a finger to do anything, because he is a special guest, their daughter's husband.
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A married man goes to his parent's home with his wife for a short visit, immediately after exchanging pleasantries, everyone will start looking at their son's wife with corner eye to see if she'll go to the kitchen and join in cooking.

She will sometimes be expected to take over the cooking and serve everyone, with a broad smile on her face.

After meal, they will be watching her to see if she will clear the table, wash the plates and clean the kitchen.
No one gives her any special treatment like the special guest she is.
Afterall who is she?
An ordinary woman!

If she doesn't do any of the chores expected of her, her mother in-law will start 'beefing' her and may become hostile towards her.
Her sisters in-law will start grumbling and sometimes become outright rude to her.

She will be called for a meeting, her home training will be questioned and her wife material length measured.
She will be berated, called lazy, mannerless and all sorts of derogatory names.

Her husband will even be chastised for not controlling and disciplining his wife enough. She may most likely leave her in-law's home sad, physically and emotionally drained.

What was meant to be a short vacation or visit eventually turns out to be hard labour filled with misery, tears and regrets.

My annoyance is that it's always women making life uncomfortable and miserable for their fellow women in cases like this.

It's always women who encourage or make excuses for men who go out of their way to hurt or harass their fellow women.

It's always women putting unnecessary pressure on their fellow women.

It's always women who are the gatekeepers of patriarchy.
» Can't a woman visit her in-laws and be treated special for the few hours or days she will stay, just like we do to our sons in-law when they visit us?

Take it or leave it, most married women in our society would rather spend holidays with their own family than with their in-laws, because of the above reasons.

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Exactly! Women are always envious and hateful of themselves. The same one that was treated thus will still mete out same treatment to her own future daughter-in-law. And the circle keeps revolving.

This is exactly what happens.

My friend then in Uni went with her fiance now husband to visit her peeps at Enugu for tge first time.
According to her,first thing in the morning,She proceeded to sweep the wholeeee house and even the compound.Her Fiance called her when he discovered her sweeping but She didnt Come until She was through.Mind You it was a village compound during xmas Time ,when more than 15 ppl were present in the house.
when She later came in ,he lambasted her and outrightly warned her not to ever do any chore Unless called upon to help.

Just the Next day,by 10am in the morning,everyone had waited for her to Come do the sweeping again but he locked her inside.When She would Come out,her mother inlaw carried face same As the others and She was lost.It was later her Son asked them Why they were boning her fiancee an the mum in lawa said''who is She waiting for to Come and sweep the house,was She not the one that swept it yesterday?''.
Over the yrs that House has stood,ppl swept it but because the new wife has come and done it,it has become her job.even when children and teenagers were All around and Could do it in grps.

My own,Dont overdo things and Dont Go out of your way to overimpress because You have to finish what You started.

Thank God for my mum