Advice is about women in the family, with the emphasis on women who are related who get along in an extended family situation. The family is emphatically a close, good and happy one. We have the wife and her mother or mother-in-law. Children are part of the story. Being his wife means a close relationship with his mama. His wife deals with his ex-wife for them as a couple.
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