It is her family, thank goodness, not his! After this, he is more quick than ever before to detect a fancied slight and to resent it.

Mary laments secretly that "John does not love her family." It is a genuine grief to her, and she does not appreciate the fact that she herself began the work that has now gone too far to check.
Were I to give a piece of advice to a bride, it would be--Never complain to your husband of the actions of a single member of your family, and never find fault with _his_ nearest of kin.

Your liege lord may disapprove of the members of his own family, or perhaps of some of his mother's characteristics, and he may talk to you of them.
But he will hotly resent your mention of them, and will exercise all his masculine ingenuity to prove that his relatives always mean to act for the best,--exactly what you would have him believe of your nearest and dearest.

A woman who has never had a suspicion of difference with her relations-in-law, confides to me of the course she has pursued throughout her married life.

She says: "I have never told Charlie that I notice the faults of his family, nor have I ever called his attention to any of their foibles.