Nitroglycerine

Oi, my mother-in-law and ex MIL for decades now, was not ever a kind person. I defended my husband, her son to her and she told me to leave her house. :) To make a rather tedious story short, her son the psychopath, I left so many times that it always seemed like a revolving door. It has been since 1995 now and I doubt he will bother me again. His parents were rather hideous and once I met my father-in-law I new how damaged my ex-husband was/is. I don't know if I ever will take the plunge again. It would take a very kind and gentle knowledgeable Orthodox man to make it seem like the best step to take. I'll see because I leave all of that to G-d. He knows my needs for tenderness and closeness and sometimes it is just a warm, secure loving hug and a sweet kiss. It could sure start my day off better... so I pray and wait, study and wait. The answer will come from G-d and being in the right place at the right time. I always enjoy Lori's "Almost Live" and she certainly knows and if she doesn't she asks.... her husband. That is so tremendous. K

I presently have this nitro relationship with my daughter-in-law. It is very difficult but this video helps me to understand the man in the middle idea. How true it is for us. May I be able to understand this relationship from a much different perspective now. thank you Lori, you always have a lesson for me to learn by your videos.....

Sorry, it's my sisiter-in-law's problem, not mine. I happen to be her brother-in-law. Otherwise, you're dead on!

Lori, you are smart and i love to listen to your presentations.

TMay has confused Chaim Weizmann and Alfred Nobel. Weizmann developed a process for the production of acetone, needed by the British to manufacture explosive propellants. Nobel did not develop nitroglycerin, but did create a method to produce and use it safely. The rest of TMay's story about the Middle East is, though greatly condensed and a bit garbled, essentially correct. As for the original subject here, I had an uneasy relationship with both mother-in-law and sister-in-law. My niece finally, on one occasion, apologized for her mother's behavior toward me. My two sisters and I adored our only brother, so she probably felt threatened by that. I was his spoiled much younger sister, undoubtedly causing more resentment. But in none of the relationships were there ever any fireworks or anything close to it.

Well explained Lori! We are all susceptible to this philosophy, as if it is the law of nature. It isn't. We have inherited envy,jealousy,fear,revenge,insecurity with intelligence,sense of reasoning and devised justice to balance it. The relationship in humans is not confined to male and female but narrowed to man and woman. Nitroglycerine will exist till the last species of human being lives.We cannot shrug it off Lori.

Always try to forgive and forget and not expect anything from anyone

Thank G-d that's not my case. I only have two brothers and I confess I am closer to my sisters-in-law than my brothers. I love them as my real sisters. We talk about everything. My husband only have sisters, 3, but unfortunatelly didn't have the opportunity to get too close because of the distance. And mother-in-law, never had a problem either. They always loved me, my current and all my ex-boyfriends' mother. So, thank G-d, I guess I am an exception.

Thank you Lori. This is a good lesson. I have had tense situations with all three of these kinds of relationships, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and step-mother. It is good to know like you said that it is just something that we need to understand the nature of and to then try to manage carefully.

I learned this week that nitroglycerine was the reason Israel got reestablished in 1948. Chaim Weizmann was a pioneer biochemist who came up with a way to develop nitroglycerine from materials in Britain during WW I that allowed Britain to win WW I and with that the collapse of the Turkish Ottomon Empire that had control over Palestine. As a reward Balfour worked with Herzl and with Chaim Weizmann to give the Jews Jewish Palestine from land that Britain got as a result of winning the war against the Ottomans who had been on the side of Germany. Weizmann became the first president of Israel, and founded the Weizmann Institute and helped to found Hebrew U. Britain also rewarded fthe Hussein family for helping them win World War I. They had fought with Col. T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, and for the Husseins they carved out of the land they promised to the Jews a land they called Transjordan which later changed its name to Jordan and became independant in 1946. Britain also got land which it named Iraq. France got land they named Syria and Lebanon from the dead Ottomon Empire. Considering that the family ended up in control of Mecca in the Arabian peninsula, and king of Syria, and king of Iraq, and king of Transjordan, the Hussein family really cleaned up. But then the Saud family appeared and got the backing of the Wahhabi's and the Brits in their fight with Hussein in Arabia and renamed it Saudi Arabia and then oil was found by Americans, making the Sauds wealthy, and in the meantime the monarchies of Syria and Iraq were overthrown, leaving the King of Jordan. israel, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Turkish Ottomon Empire, British Empire, Israel. Faisal had an agreement with Weizmann, and if the British had not made different agreements with Faisal and with France and with the Jews maybe there could have been peace. The Kurds really got shafted. The hist teaches to let 1 dept handle agreements and not let indiv's promise diff things in diff dirs.