Are you annoyed by your mother-in-law's attention to your newborn baby? Do you sincerely think that she brings him only unnecessary and harmful things? Is it easier for you to cope with everyday life while carrying a child in your arms than to accept her help? Have you already quarreled with your husband, who is tired of rushing between you and his mother? Do you want to be as far away from her as possible at any cost, despite the fact that before the birth of your child you had a very good relationship? You would really like to get everything right, but it’s as if a demon is casting a spell on you and urging you to conflict more and more uncontrollably and unreasonably? Most likely this demon lives in your own subconscious. Like everything that controls us against our will. The contents of our unconscious are very vast. Our repressed drives, instincts, traumas, childhood memories, events, feelings that we consider unacceptable live there. Very often our childish parts are completely placed in the subconscious. Especially if we firmly believe that we have grown. Especially if, as children, we did not receive enough love and attention. And, following our parents, they got used to neglecting our inner child. But when we give birth to a child, it is as if we take the child’s part out of our psyche and identify it with our child. Think about your childhood, who and to whom were you jealous when you were little? And your conflict with your mother-in-law will receive its own interpretation. Maybe you had a younger brother or sister who received more love and attention from your parents. And now you identify your mother-in-law with your little mother and are jealous of her for your sibling. Or you fight for the love of your mother, which every now and then goes to your dad instead of you. We must also not forget that your child is not only the child part of you. He is also the child part of your husband. Whose first love was your mother-in-law (no matter how his Oedipus complex was resolved). And the relationship between your husband’s mother and your child gives you a healthy sense of female rivalry, burning jealousy. If you want to build healthy family relationships, free from childhood conflicts driven into the subconscious, it is extremely important to free yourself from these conflicts. At the very least, free your subconscious from them and make your own, conscious decisions in relationships. Such problems are well resolved in psychodrama. Maybe love and friendship with your mother-in-law will still not work out, but at least your relationship will be free from indomitable and bitter childish jealousy, which has nothing to do with the living real mother-in-law.