A newly married young lady was having a terrible time dealing with her husband’s mother who was a bitter older woman.  The situation got to be such that the young bride just could not deal with the situation any longer. She decided to consult a witch doctor with the hope that he would help her find a way to make her mother in law leave.    The doctor gave her some drops that would send the older woman away if they were administered correctly; 3 drops every 5 hours, but there was a catch. These drops would not work unless she was especially nice to her.

The young lady decided it was worth the effort and did everything she could to be nice to her mother in law, even though she knew she would continue to be treated badly.  The first week passed and nothing changed but during the second week she began noticing a difference in the way her mother in law treated her. By the end of the third week she went running back to see the witch doctor to see if she could reverse the medicine that she was giving her mother in law because she no longer wanted her to leave. The doctor told her that the medicine was not in the drops, it was in the effort she had made in treating her mother in law nicely. That had gotten rid of the bitter old woman and brought out the nice person that was hiding inside.