The wife of the wife's brother is a friend, comrade and daughter-in-law

2025 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-22 17:55

It just so happened that in difficult moments of our lives, the closest and dearest people come to the rescue. It is they who become a reliable support and protection during this period. There is a belief among the people that says: “Where one cannot cope alone, there the clan will help.”

A person is just one branch in a big family tree. Now there is a very great interest in the knowledge of family roots. This is what genealogy does. It helps to build a family tree. It can be drawn as a graphic diagram, which can be ascending from the known oldest ancestor to descendants, or descending from you to ancestors. Here, family ties are clearly visible. It is advisable to have a separate card for each person in the family tree, where you can indicate all the information about it. For example: “The wife of the wife’s brother is Ivanova Maria Ivanovna, year of birth, children.”

Since a person acquires more and more new relatives throughout his life, the scheme will become more and more branched. Some concepts are well known from childhood: dad, mom, sister, brother, mother-in-law, father-in-law. But some are very hard to figure out. For example, who is the wife of the wife's brother? Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law?

Terms of family relationship are striking in variety. They originated in ancient Russia. The following relationship types exist:

• blood, uniting a common ancestor;
• not blood, uniting by marriage;
• spiritual, uniting godfathers.

The most complex system is that of consanguinity, which has several degrees. Each generation has its own niche in the family tree. Children are the first degree of kinship, grandchildren are the second, and so on. Second cousins and brothers are already the sixth step.

It's a completely different story with non-blood relatives. The spouses are not related at all. Only marriage connects them. Relatives of the spouse become indirect members of the family.

• Son's wife is daughter-in-law.
• The wife's brother is the brother-in-law.
• The wife's brother's wife is the daughter-in-law.
• Spouse's brother is brother-in-law.
• The wife's sister is a sister-in-law.

It is interesting that a man is a son-in-law and mother-in-law, and father-in-law, and brother-in-law. The spouses of two sisters are considered brothers-in-law, but sisters-in-law are not the spouses of two brothers. The wife of the wife's brother is not only the daughter-in-law, she is also called the daughter-in-law.

The ability and desire to find a common language with the older generation and live in harmony with them is not given to everyone. Since ancient times, there has been such a tradition that the son brought his wife to the house. She did not dare to argue with her mother-in-law. If the elder brother's wife lived in the house, she tookguardianship of the younger daughter-in-law, helped her get used to the new family, taught all the tricks, shared her experience. When a child appeared in a young family, the brother's wife, the daughter-in-law, helped with the housework: she fed the men and washed them.

This is exactly what a large family that did one thing in common looked like, they were a team. Everything in the house was common, and no one divided anything into yours or mine. The family taught patience, respect, honored the elders. Times have changed, and now it is better for different generations to live separately, as when living together, the number of disagreements increases, which leads to quarrels and divorces. Now they even say that the farther relatives live, the closer they are.