The media is replete with examples of fraught in-law relationships.
From the disapproving mother-in-law to the detached father-in-law, there’s often not a positive representation of these dynamics—and for good reason. Many married people struggle to connect and find peace with their partner’s parents. Newsweek wondered if there was a place—apart from the therapist’s couch—to gain the insight needed to bond and heal relationships with in-laws.
We were curious about what the chatbot had to say about fathers-in-law as the arguably less-represented in-law relationship. Newsweek asked the generative AI tool ChatGPT to outline a few ways sons- and daughters-in-law could deal with challenging fathers-in-law.
We asked ChatGPT the following prompt: “You are a relationship expert. Outline three ways a son-in-law can deal with his father-in-law and three ways a daughter-in-law can deal with her father-in-law.”
Ways To Deal With a Challenging Father-in-Law, According to ChatGPT
ChatGPT proposed a list of six ways people can …