be mean to one's daughter-in-law

Those who have had problems in their relationships with their daughters-in-law are the ones who answered "superior-inferior type" relationships or relationships "between acquaintances who are somewhat distant."〔【出典】『日本人との結婚』（水瓜博子著）◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"YA18-101", "2540230"

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a tempest and hail storm.〔ことわざ〕

offer of marriage

Never criticize your daughter-in-law's cooking, housekeeping, children, friends or new hairdo.〔姑に対する戒め〕

be hard on one's daughter-in-law

Many a man sings that wife home brings; wist he what he brought, weep he might.〔ことわざ〕

The lack of brides is very serious.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1989年10月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT036007", "2489862"

bridal trousseau

It seem she was getting quite stressed because her relationship with my mother was going sour and at the same time, she was pregnant.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2000年11月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT169014", "2379046"

trouble between one's wife and one's mother

wife-carrying race

give someone in marquisette to

carry someone across the threshold

give someone in marriage to

When we moved back to Japan in 1994, Toshio's mother told me through Toshio that since we had been married over 10 years that she would accept me as her daughter.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2000年4月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT162030", "2564797"

Mr. C's mother saw what was happening and she told her son to get a divorce and said, "You can take the child if you want, but we don't need a foreign wife."〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1997年6月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT128014", "2405732"

"We're both working, so for the husband to share household chores should come as second nature, don't you think? But my mother-in-law treats me as if I'm the Wicked Witch of the West." "Don't try to change her. She grew up in a different world. Just take it for granted that our parents' generation thought differently from the way we do."

A man humorously describes his everyday life in a blog book called "Jitsuroku Oniyome Nikki."〔【出典】Catch a Wave, 2005年8月12日号◆【出版社】株式会社浜島書店 〕

"It is a kind of convenience that we can't understand each other's language, as they don't imagine me as a bride because they say 'she is a foreigner'" said Takako with a laugh.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2008年3月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT257023", "2170878"

After she had thus been educated, she was married to a friend of her father's family -- a merchant named Nagaraya;-- and she lived happily with him for nearly four years.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_SECRE", "2236753"

If things stay like this, he'll never be carrying me across the threshold!

The film 'The wife of Seisyu Hanaoka' is not only a film about Seisyu's successful development of the anesthesia, it also depicts the troubles between a daughter-in-law and her mother-in-law which is a familiar sights in a soap opera.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1999年11月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT157048", "2484543"

However, Noriko, a woman who was married to the old couple's son who was killed during World War II, treated them very hospitably.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2007年10月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT252026", "2324356"

Besides, he wouldn't be in the between 'yome （his wife）' and 'shuutome （his own mother）'〔【出典】『日本のスーパーヒーロー伝説』（ルー・ウェイ著）◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"YA04-152", "2266774"

It made me feel glad that I married into their family.

That's why she can do anything she wants without any hesitation and not suffering from the strong pressure of being an obedient 'Yome.'〔【出典】『日本のスーパーヒーロー伝説』（ルー・ウェイ著）◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"YA04-152", "2462710"

It also became popular for young men from bride-poor rural areas bringing back brides from China, the Philippines or Thailand.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1996年5月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT115017", "2371624"

Japanese parents have also become less stubborn than before about the relationship between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law.〔【出典】『日本人との結婚』（水瓜博子著）◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"YA18-101", "2388859"

From the perspective of the Japanese husband and his family, his wife is the daughter-in-law and they want her to act like a member of their family.〔【出典】『日本人との結婚』（水瓜博子著）◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"YA18-086", "2302774"

This is form of racial discrimination, to think that only Asian women will be willing to come to a farming community.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1990年11月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT049036", "2533702"

Men spoke already, though she had but twelve years, of the good wife she would be for their sons to woo and win;〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_DOG02", "2401875"

Take a vine of a good soil, and the daughter of a good mother.〔ことわざ〕

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.〔ことわざ〕

On the other hand, kidnapped girls are often sold into areas where there is a surplus of unmarried men.〔【出典】Global Voices Online◆【英文】Andy Yee ◆【和訳】Kazuko Ohchi ◆【License】CC BY 3.0 〕

The greatest number of people, 31.4%, answered that they have wish to have a polite relationship of respect, like that between a superior and an inferior, but according to the same survey, many of those who have had difficulties in relationships with their daughters-in-law wish to have either this type of "superior-inferior" relationship or the "somewhat detached acquaintance" relationship.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1999年2月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT148026", "2487385"

Better wed over the mixen than over the moor.〔嫁は、近隣から迎える方が良いという意味。mixenは家の裏に山積みになっている堆肥のことで、moorは北イングランドの丘陵地のような、ヒースなどが生えた荒野。◆ことわざ〕

I now travel to China ten times a year, I have learned Chinese, and I imported a Chinese wife （laugh）.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1997年12月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT134045", "2338448"

It isn't that I'm trying to act like a "good and ideal wife" -- it's just that I really prefer German cuisine.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2001年3月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT173032", "2377940"

It is an irony that the wranglings of a wife and mother-in-law contributed toward the development of medical science.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1999年11月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT157048", "2374803"

When the man goes down on his knees, the father is put in an embarrassing situation and feels he has no choice but to give his daughter in marriage.〔【出典】『これが分かれば日本通』（田仲邦子著）◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"YA03-021", "2563873"

In rural areas where family bonds are strong some Japanese traditions may still remain, but relationships between mothers and daughters-in-law are contemporary.〔【出典】『日本人との結婚』（水瓜博子著）◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"YA18-101", "2363738"

She is well married, who has neither mother-in-law nor sister-in-law by her husband.〔ことわざ〕

Choose a wife on a Saturday rather than a Sunday.〔日曜日に教会にやってくる女性は特別なおしゃれをしているので、本当の姿は分からない◆ことわざ〕

Choose a wife by your ear rather than by your eye.〔ことわざ〕

It isn't unusual for mothers-in-law to be cruel to their daughters-in-law.

The mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law.〔ことわざ〕