potatojoe wrote:"It's when a guy does his business around a woman's neck"
Good Lord. The first thing that popped into my mind was The Color Purple:
Sug Avery: Do his business? Do his business? Why, Miz Seely, you make it sound like he goin' to the bathroom on you!
Seely: That what it feel like.
I guess Joe's MIL was channeling her inner Goldberg.