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Mother-in-law gave me a bowl of chicken-neck porridge that made me swallow tears, postpartum depression

Mar 19, 2022 09:10 GMT+7

Although I’ve been married for 3 years, these days have not been very happy for me.

I fell in love and married Huy after 6 months of knowing with the number of dating times counted on my fingers because of the distance. Right from the moment I fell in love, I felt that I was at a disadvantage, but because the two families were too eager to get married, I also accepted to be his wife.

Huy has 2 brothers. The eldest brother got married and settled in another province, so naturally I fell into the situation of living with my husband’s parents to take care of and take care of the family.

As a well-educated person, now I am a teacher, so I think it is also a good thing to be respectful to your husband’s parents. So right from the first day I became a bride, I planned to spend reasonably, pay attention to house hygiene, intentionally learned to cook delicious dishes suitable for the elderly…. All to avoid the conflict between mother-in-law – daughter-in-law that many people encounter.

However, what I did not expect was that my mother-in-law was too fastidious and difficult to please. In particular, she also has an excessively thrifty nature, so every time she sees me buying a little more food, she shows her displeasure. At that time, my father-in-law often eased the atmosphere with innocuous stories in society.

My husband works away from home all the time, so even his father-in-law’s simple actions make me secretly thank him very much. Unfortunately, I had been married for half a year when he found out that he had terminal liver cancer.

Also from the time he got sick and spent a lot of money on treatment, my mother-in-law’s temperament became even more negative. She was often irritable and took out her anger on me and my father-in-law.

At that time, I was pregnant with my first child, but I still had to work so hard to do housework that I almost threatened to have a miscarriage. However, her mother-in-law not only did not love her but also criticized that the younger generation now just “sitting and eating a golden bowl”, but she gave birth twice, no one helped, still had to work hard…

Once I bought half a duck to store for the whole family to eat, but she scolded me for “eating wild” and then took the bowl away and saved half of it. Even when I had just given birth, I was very tired, but she had the heart to cook me a pot of thin porridge with a whole chicken neck… I endured for the family to be in harmony, but many nights I cried and wet my pillow because of self-pity.

Mother-in-law gave me a bowl of chicken-neck porridge that made me swallow tears, postpartum depression
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Two weeks ago, my father-in-law passed away. I am now in confinement after giving birth to my second child. The baby is just over 1 month old, so it’s still immature and has weak resistance.

Recently, I saw that my baby cough and runny nose a lot, so I took him to the doctor. I am most worried that my child infected with Covid-19 will be dangerous to his health. However, when the doctor examined and asked about the living environment, the doctor diagnosed that my child was allergic to incense smoke.

Indeed, since the day my father-in-law passed away, my mother-in-law burned incense all day, she still regretted the money, so she bought a cheap type of incense with a lot of smoke. The tube house is not well ventilated, so the smoke of incense flowed into my mother’s room. I myself sometimes sneeze because the smell of incense is too strong.

I was worried about my children’s health, so I asked my mother-in-law to let me go home to stay at home, but she definitely refused. She told her grandmother’s house that it was a hundred kilometers away, that walking like that made her grandchildren miserable, and then she deduced that I wanted to leave her at this time…

I’m so sad, I don’t know what to do to let her let me go home now.

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