I resented when I discovered the secret in the lunch boxes made by my mother-in-law

03/06/2022 07:19 GMT+7

I was born and raised in a poor rural area, but thanks to my efforts, after graduating from university, I got a stable job.

My husband and I used to have a passionate and sweet love that made everyone jealous. In the days when I was a student, going to school in the sun and rain, he traveled dozens of kilometers to pick me up. The two of them stuck together like glue for 3 years. When we got home, we could talk on the phone for an hour without getting bored.

When I graduated from college and settled into a job, we decided to get married, thinking that from here on life would only have roses, but things didn’t turn out the way I thought they would.

At first, my whole family lived in harmony and was very happy. But only 6 months later, there were frequent conflicts between me and my mother-in-law.

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My personality is clean and tidy, on the contrary, my mother-in-law is messy, so I have to clean up again. When I come home from work tired and find myself in such a house, I am extremely uncomfortable but still have to try to be patient.

I did not like my mother-in-law, rather, my mother-in-law did not like it because of my poor background. Mother-in-law often said sarcastically that chopsticks were moldy, but then she said that being a bride is to do everything in the family, parents can’t argue with whatever they say, saying they have to do it right away… but I see it. It makes no sense to go to work all day and come home at night, even the smallest things come to hand.

Moreover, I know that my mother-in-law is always jealous of me, saying that I have stolen her son and taken all the love that her son once had for her.

After the wedding, we planned for a year to stabilize the economy a bit and then plan to have children. Since I was planning to have a baby, my mother-in-law is much more caring and easy-going with me.

She actively got up early to go to the market, cooked breakfast, even cooked rice for me to bring to work. My mother-in-law said that when planning to have children, her health must be very good, so she spoiled me more.

Every day, my mother-in-law cooks for me by herself, she said that she really wants to have grandchildren, so she has to foster her daughter-in-law with nutritious food. I am without a doubt happy to finally get along with my mother-in-law. To show respect, I often try to eat all the dishes she made for me, unexpectedly…

For two years, my wife and I longed for our children to come. My mother-in-law is always urging me. I’m white and fat, gaining weight like an industrially raised chicken, but I can’t give birth.

I struggled to blame myself and pessimistically thought about freeing my husband so he could go to another woman. But my husband was too kind, he said he couldn’t leave me, so we tried again.

Everything would probably be in the dark if I wasn’t seriously poisoned once and had to go to the emergency room. The doctor asked to test my food, and they discovered that I had overdosed on birth control pills. I was surprised when the person who put birth control pills in the daily soup bowls I brought to work was my mother-in-law.

Receiving the results from the doctor, I almost went crazy with resentment, and my husband couldn’t believe it was his mother’s actions.

Immediately, he called his mother to ask for clarification, and received an indifferent attitude. She explained: “The fortune-teller said that this year my son must not have children. If my daughter-in-law is pregnant, my son will encounter disasters, even paying with his life.”

Listening to the words of my mother-in-law, I was dumbfounded because perhaps she understood better than me and my husband’s desire to have children.

Actually, after that work of my mother-in-law, I no longer had any feelings for her and felt very uncomfortable when I had to live in the same house with her.

But my husband is an only child, her mother-in-law has high blood pressure, so my husband could not let her live alone. How do I do now?

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