My Troublesome Mother-In-Law

Hi, I want you to listen to me... I am from Japan and married to an American. He is so sweet and I am more than grateful to God that he loves me. But his mother is too hard to deal with.

His family is a devote Christian family, and his mother loves Jesus. It`s good, so do I, but she doesn`t know anything else; any other perspective, any other value, nothing. And she throws her faith at me all the time.

When I have things to take care of and have to stay in my room, she thinks that I have troubles with her and next morning when I say a good-morning to her, she comes to me and asks me, "Is there anything that I can help you with?" Well, this sounds very kind, but I am really, really ok and I tell her so. But when I say I am ok, she gets angry and goes like "What do you mean I`m ok? Why can`t you tell me what I can do for you?" I have to wonder to myself, Is there anything wrong with me doing ok?

Every time I get swamped with my school stuff and job-searching and stay in my room for hours, or simply when I am tired and want to take a nap, she gets upset. She keeps asking me a bunch of questions and when I say I don`t know, she gets mad.

I will have to live with her for a bit more...What should I do? My husband loves my mother-in-law and I don`t want to hurt him.

Thank you so much.