Mothers-in-law get a bum rap when it comes to stressful relationships, and that’s just not fair. That’s because any in-law can be enough of a handful to drive your anxiety to new heights. Since anxiety and stress fuel your emetophobia, any way you can reduce them means more relief for you.
If the anxiety and stress is coming from the in-law camp, Psychology Today has a number of handy ways to ease the stress, anxiety and in-law relationships. That means the tips double as a way to ease your vomit fears and phobias.
The article goes into detail on key concepts that can help in-law relations, which we’ve summarized below:
“Accept that your in-laws, with all of their flaws, are part of your life.
“In the same way, you do not have to be a different person just because you have married into their family. You will do better if you can adjust to and adapt to some of their behaviors and traditions, which will inevitably be different from those of your own family; but you can be polite while still preferring your mother’s baked ham and step-father’s lasagna over your mother-in-law’s roast turkey for Christmas dinner. And you don’t have to laugh at your brother-in-law’s dirty jokes any more than you have to approve of your grandfather’s blatant racism.
“Hurt Feelings. More in-law difficulties arise from intentional or unintentional hurting of feelings than from almost any other factor.
“Respect is the next key word. What do we have to respect? Everything! But two really important items to keep on the respect agenda are differences and boundaries.
“Compromise.
“And finally, don’t put your spouse or child in the middle.”
While the tips may not magically create a loving bond, they can at least help you refrain from creating a hateful one. Besides, any stress-reducing tactic is a friend of your emetophobia.
Read the full article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-couch/201212/take-my-mother-in-law-6-steps-good-in-law-relationships
