For Years I Tried to Please My Mother-in-Law

How did such a judgemental woman raise such a great son?

Cindy Shore Smith
Crow’s Feet
Published in
4 min readApr 27, 2022

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My mother-in-law, Nancy, had a degree in home economics — she’d proudly tell you she earned straight As by running the sorority house the best and the cheapest. She was from an era when a married woman’s worth was measured in domestic skill.

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