What is the legal ruling regarding the suffering of a married woman whose husband is divorced with children, due to his mother's excessive interference in their lives and her documentation of their movements, and the husband's refusal to reduce the large alimony he pays to his children and his ex-wife, and his emotional neglect of his current wife, knowing that the husband fears his mother's anger and threatens divorce with every problem?
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A wife has the right to demand a home separate from her husband's family. A separate home is one where the wife has a suitable and self-contained portion of the dwelling with its own facilities. A wife does not have the right to demand her husband reduce the expenses of their children. However, she does have the right to demand that he spend on her and treat her kindly. The wife should treat her husband well, overlook his faults, and consider his circumstances.
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