no.268 140123 Thank you for my future family

Yup, that's me. I love green tea.

I met a friend who has been married for more than 3 years. We were just catching up since we haven't seen each other since last October. As usual, we talked about our lives - we talk about our past during university, and our current life with our job situation and so on. As a single woman, I talk about my future husband and as a wife, she talks about her married life. Whenever she tells me about her husband's parents and his family, I wonder what kind of daughter-in-law and sister-in-law I will be in the future. I wonder what kind of relationship I will have with future husband's family.

I don't want to go into too much detail about a typical married life as a wife and a daughter-in-law in Korean culture and supposedly everything you have to go through and all the nagging that you have to bare as a daughter-in-law. I'll tell you more about marriage and family relationships in Korean culture in the future posts to come. But my point is that I want to have a good relationship with my future husband's family. I want to treat them as my own family, and I sure hope that they will accept me as their own daughter. Similarly, I want my husband to treat my family as his own, and that my parents will accept him as their son and love him as they love me.