Respect and acceptance among in-laws

Love your in-laws as you would your own parents, says KK Lee with wife Racheal Kow (right) and mother-in-law Mary Ting.

Mary Ting and her son-in-law have even taken to watching TV together in the evenings, passing the remote controls back and forth.

Many of his friends view mothers-in-law as formidable figures, and it made K. K. Lee nervous when he first met his (then) girlfriend’s mother, Mary Ting.