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for The New York Times: Parenting in Front of a Live Audience of In-laws
josé a. alvarado jr.
Aug 28, 2020
Whether he knew it or not, my husband married all the me’s inside of me. And all of them, I’ve recently come to understand, have something rather troubling in common: They all crave my parents’ approval. I imagine this is also not terribly attractive.
Worse, every single quarantine marital scuffle we’ve had is linked, somehow, to my perception of my parents’ approval of my husband, too — which is really just about their approval of me...
A powerful and moving piece by Christen Madrazo. Photographed for The New York Times.
Parenting in Front of a Live Audience of In-laws
Micromanaging my husband, I realized how much I still craved my parents’ approval.