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| Published: June 25, 2015
Limerence Causing Conflict in Relationship Between Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law: A Study on Unhappiness in Family Relations and Broken Family
Social Worker, Monihar Co-operative Housing Society, Flat No-7/2, 1050/2, Survey park, Kolkata Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.012/20150203
DOI: 10.25215/0203.012
ABSTRACT
This paper examines the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship and its causes and consequence for future of family. For this study, twenty five each, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law were interviewed and interacted to know the status of the above relationship. From this study, it revealed that their relationship was suffering from various causes. Among these, limerence ( an emotional state of being love) was the prime. The son(her husband) was the limerent object to whom her mother(-in-law) was attached from his birth and she did not like to shift it to her wife(daughter-in-law). This was the main reason of their conflict which was creating psychological and social problems in their family life. This same gender discrimination was the burden of peaceful living. In this global era, it would be overcome through adjustment and sharing of their place of limerence.
Keywords
Limerence, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship, same gender discrimination, unhappy family, son as limerent object
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2015 I H Adhikari
Received: March 28, 2015; Revision Received: April 24, 2015; Accepted: June 25, 2015
Article Overview
ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.012/20150203
10.25215/0203.012
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Published in Volume 02, Issue 3, April-June, 2015