Unwelcome in-Law Tensions

My in-laws hate me, and I don’t even know why. Every time I walk

into their house, the air gets thick, like they’ve been talking about me just seconds before

I arrived. My mother-in-law gives me that smile — the kind that doesn’t touch her

eyes — and my father-in-law just grunts instead of saying hello. I’ve replayed every moment in my head,

trying to figure out what I did wrong. Was it the time I brought store-bought pie instead of baking

one myself? Or maybe when I laughed too loud at the dinner table? Sometimes I think

they’ve decided I’m just not good enough for their child, like no one ever

could be. What’s worse is my partner doesn’t even see it — they say I’m imagining