Difficult in-law
A relative by marriage with whom the relationship is strained — family by contract whose presence is now a charge on the household.
A difficult in-law in a dream is the dream's image of family by contract whose presence has become a charge on the household. The relationship was not chosen directly; it came with the marriage. The dream brings the difficult in-law when something in your life — a strained extended family connection, a recurring tense visit, an unresolved old conflict at the edge of the partnership — is currently drawing energy from the centre of the home without contributing back. A difficult in-law engaged with honestly, with the limits stated, is the dream affirming the right management of the load. A difficult in-law accommodated indefinitely, with the household quietly bending its real life to avoid the conflict, is the dream noting that the cost is being paid by the partnership rather than addressed at the source.