When it comes to in-laws, many people struggle to get on with their new family members, especially their mother-in-law.
One woman from the US is said to have this exact issue, as the older woman is "steamrolling" her marriage, invading her privacy and taking important life decisions away from her.
This is according to the sister-in-law, who has shared a post on Reddit's Am I The A**hole forum, about the tense family situation.
She explains that she doesn't like how her brother is treating his pregnant wife, always ignoring her wishes and instead often siding with his mother.
Things recently came to a head on the man's birthday, when his wife told him she didn't want her mother-in-law in the delivery room, but he insisted he would be there.
As a result of the argument, his wife didn't attend his birthday dinner - and his sister got involved.
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Her post on Reddit reads: "My brother and his wife live at my mom's house. Mom tends to get involved in their marriage constantly and my brother lets her. SIL always complains about mom steamrolling her decisions and violating her privacy.
"When SIL got pregnant mom got worse, she went out a brought a whole nursery and put it in her room despite SIL having one in her room. Their most recent conflict is about mom pushing to be in the delivery room and SIL saying no, my brother not only is siding with mom but he's making promises to her to keep her happy.
"Last week we were gathered at mom's house for my brother's birthday, his friends came and asked why SIL wasn't at dinner table. My brother nonchalantly said that she was just being a princess, acting spoiled and immature over everything.
"I was shocked and hurt on her behalf, so I responded 'actually...she's probably just upset now that she's realized that you're a grade a mama's boy ready to do whatever mom says while ignoring your wife's wishes'.
"Brief silence while his friends stared, he started arguing about how disrespectful I was.
"Dinner got awkward and my brother's friends left early. He went off on me saying I embarrassed him before friends and ruined his birthday dinner. I decided to go home cause he kept yelling. Mom then called demanding I apologize for the rude things I said at dinner but I refused."
She asked fellow Reddit users if she was in the wrong for calling her brother out over his behaviour - and they agreed she was not.
More than 1,100 people responded to the post, with one saying: "Glad someone is standing up for SIL. The icing on top is he had mommy call you after he tattled because his feelings were hurt."
Another replied: "I knew where this was going as soon as the mom set up a friggin nursery in her own bedroom… as if she’s having a baby with her son and not her DIL. Oedipal. Gross."
Someone else commented: "Sounds like you gave your brother a brief moment of realistic honesty for his birthday. I can't wait to find out what you get him for Christmas."
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