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Patient, in any conflict between their partner and their own parents, defaults — without conscious thought — to their parents. Has, over 14 years, never once said to a parent 'I hear you, but my partner is right on this one.' Has, over the same period, said to the partner 'I hear you, but my mother has a point' on 47 occasions. The partner has noticed. The partner has, privately, stopped raising issues that involve the in-laws. The partner is, effectively, a roommate in this specific category.
Chronic. The default has deepened annually since the wedding.
None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.
Patients with Terminal In-Laws-Before-Spouse Allegiance typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal In-Laws-Before-Spouse Allegiance belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Parentes prae coniuge allegiantia, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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