On the 30th of April, I came back to visit my mother-in-law early, I burst into tears when I saw this scene

My husband and I have been married for 6 years and have a daughter who is almost 4 years old. Because my biological parents have conditions, after marriage, my parents make up for us a lot. Because of that, I have been married for 3 years and have my own house and car.

My husband was a guest, he came from a purely agricultural family in the countryside, went to the city to study, then stayed to work, then met and married me.

My husband’s family situation is quite difficult, his father-in-law died early, my mother-in-law alone raised two brothers-in-law to study. My husband’s brother settled in Saigon, so he rarely returned to his hometown. My mother-in-law is basically good-natured, when I first got married I also liked her because she was honest. In the first days of being a bride, I was quite comfortable because my mother-in-law loved me very much, but my mistake was to bring her up to live with me when I was pregnant.

Thinking that my husband often goes on a business trip, being alone at home is uncomfortable, so I agreed to let him pick up my mother-in-law to live with me.

From this point on, she began to show extreme frugality, I ordered food from outside because I didn’t want her to work hard to cook, then she said I didn’t know how to save and didn’t appreciate my husband’s labor because he worked all the time. I just like to order food… But she doesn’t know that I also work to earn money, not a parasite.

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When I was morning, I bought an apricot tree to eat, but she quietly hid it because she said dirty apricots was not good for her grandson. Then every day she forced me to eat some dishes such as stewed pork leg, goose eggs… She said that in the old days she didn’t even have food to eat, now she has a chance to eat nutritious food.

The day I gave birth, I was fed up with my mother-in-law’s roasted turmeric pork, I asked her to eat seafood and she didn’t give it because she said the seafood was cold, my baby would have to go out.

In general, living with my mother-in-law in my house, but I feel like I have completely lost my freedom, to the point that I even lose my milk under stress.

The incident was like a drop of water when my child was 1 year old, my mother-in-law kept telling me to give birth to another child so that she could take care of her body. I don’t want to because seeing the children is too tiring.

So when I went out to play, my mother-in-law quietly packed up and threw away all the birth control pills in my private room, when I asked her, she cried that every matter of eating and giving birth could not be done.

At that time, my conflict with my mother-in-law reached the climax, then when I saw that the situation was too tense, my husband took my mother-in-law to my hometown to live, since then I couldn’t like her anymore. Because I don’t like it, every occasion when my husband’s hometown has an anniversary or New Year’s Eve, my husband invites me to my hometown, I use the excuse to go on a business trip, rarely going back to my hometown to visit my mother-in-law.

However, every month I still send money to my mother-in-law regularly, or give money to my husband to buy her an air conditioner, buy clothes to send to her.

Yesterday, my brother-in-law brought his lover in Saigon to introduce and prepare for the wedding, because he was also enthusiastic and respectful of me, so this time on the occasion of the holiday I decided to return to my hometown 1 day in advance to avoid congestion. Street.

I haven’t seen my mother-in-law for a long time and I see that she has aged too much, the house is also very old. I enlisted to help her clean the house before her husband’s brother’s lover came home.

Suddenly, I saw a rotten wooden box in the most beautiful position in the cabinet, I opened it and saw some pictures of the mother-in-law and her husband in the past.

My husband used to say, in the past, his family was very poor, taking photos was a luxury, but sometimes his mother still saves money for the two brothers to take pictures, she said to record those moments, later got a wife. I still have something to tell.

Suddenly I felt so sorry for my mother-in-law, her whole life she worked hard to sacrifice for her two children. When she got old, she lived alone in the countryside. If it were me, I wouldn’t be able to bear it.

While thinking about it, when she returned from the market, she bought me a banh khuc, a cake that every time I go back to my husband’s hometown, I love it.

She said it’s been a long time since she bought a cake because only I like to eat at home, she also told her sorry because there are times when she is too strict with me, but the old woman doesn’t know how long she can live, so she has a good mentality. take care of the children, want me to give birth early to reduce the hardship.

At this point, I burst into tears and realized that I had been so careless for a long time, the gifts or money I sent to her every month would not make her as happy as my whole family came to visit her.

Should I take her to the city to live with my husband and I so that she will be less lonely in old age?

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