I lucked out. She doesn't like me and well, I give up - he loves her, she loves him - he'll always be our son, but he's going to be her husband, so when he makes his bed, he can sleep in it.
Tom and I decided early on that we would teach all our children the same things - housekeeping, groceries, cooking, simple auto and household repairs - that way they would be independent adults when their time came to leave the nest.
There is an old, old ethnic joke about the woman who had two children...a son and a daughter...she went to visit her friend and started complaining, "Ohhh, my poor son, he has to cook dinner, clean the house and work all day long while his lazy wife sits and watches TV. She won't even give him any children. The lazy thing!"
Then she started talking about her daughter, "But ohhh, my daugher - now she married well! Her husband works all day then comes home to make her dinner and even cleans house. He doesn't want her to have children yet because I'm too young to be a Grandmother! What a gem he is!"
Guess it all depends where you fall into the grand scheme of things!!!
Rae