The parents and wife

I am assuming you mean the wife and her in laws, so if you do not mean that please feel free to correct me. In any case I think that it all depends really as to the relationship between the wife and the in laws. Some have a great relationship and some don't. My fiance and I both have a great relationship with our in laws. He gets along with mine, and me his. I think that when a couple has their own family the relationship can be strained if the people let it. Taking care of a child is one thing that has many ways and sometimes the two different or many different ways can cause tension. As for when my fiance and I have children I feel that we will not bump heads and if we do it will only be for the betterment of our children. When I say bump heads, I mean with our parents.

Such relationships mostly depends on their maturity level. If you are matured enough to understand that everyone needs a little space everything can be workedout favourably. Love and trust is needed in any type of reltionships. meapas.

as my understanding, you means relationship between your wife and your parent, not your parent-in-law. i often discuss with my friens, do they live with they parent-in-law together, how about the relationship? due to the high cost to own a house, some of them live with parent, but with sensitive and weak relationship. an interesting thing is, it looks like the husband is easy to get on with his parent-in-law compare with the wife with her parent-in-law.

try as possible not to live (you and your wife) with your parents in the same house specialy if your mother is alive, because the mother always feel like you wife kidnaped you from her.