Five Easy Ways to Live With In-Laws AND Have a Life

Your five-step guide for living with in-laws is here.

What do you call a place where you live, eat, shower and sleep for free, but don’t necessarily call home?

(No, not jail!)

It’s called Sasuraal... the place where suddenly after you get married, all the bharatiya sanskaar decides to move in with you. The wellspring of intolerance that can put the rest of the nation to shame. I’ll tell you how. Once, while thinking out aloud I mentioned I wanted a study table for my room. What my dear mother-in-law said to me threw me off my chair!

Study table? But you’re married now, look at my room, I don’t have a study table.

If you too deal with such absurdities everyday, here are five ways you can keep your mental balance and live with your in-laws.