Harry and Meghan. Reason to pay attention

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97. Good piece on this in today's WaPo

This is a story, at a basic level, of what it means to marry into a family. There’s a sister-in-law who got there first and who isn’t a hugger and who brought her own shiny pantyhose. There’s the brother-in-law your husband used to be close to, but with whom things are now awkward — and everyone is acting as though that’s your fault. Things are also awkward with your father-in-law, who married his mistress, and we haven’t even gotten started on your new uncle, the one who had been pals with Jeffrey Epstein. The person you like best is your mother-in-law, whom you never actually got to meet because she died 25 years ago.


Do you suck it up? Christmas after Christmas, christening after christening — through casually racist conversations (how light-skinned will your baby be?) and uptight dinner parties? Through the relentless scrutiny of those watching to assess whether you were having a good enough time at those dinner parties? (Every time Meghan didn’t quite fit in, the paparazzi made a slide show about it.) Do you grit your teeth and then go home and breathe deeply into an empty Lululemon bag?

 Or do you turn to your new spouse and say, “I’m out. You coming?”

The link is a gift link from my WaPo account, so hopefully no firewall

https://wapo.st/3uUhYJ0