I only have one child, so from childhood to adulthood, I put a lot of expectations on him. After graduating from university, my son returned to his hometown to apply for a job at a bank. About 2 years later, he brought his girlfriend home to debut.
My child’s girlfriend is an elementary school teacher, and happens to be the homeroom teacher of a neighbor’s nephew, so I sometimes ask him what his teacher is like. Hearing the boy say that the teacher was gentle, he liked the teacher very much, so I also felt reassured.
And every time she comes to the house to play, she never goes empty-handed, and helps me do this and that. She is both skillful and polite, fast, quick, and has a stable job, so I’m very satisfied, where can I find such a good bride?
Not long following, the two families discussed marriage. Because I have each child, the house also has a bit of food for my wife and I to do a small business, so before I got married, I bought my son a house to live in, and all the furniture in my house was also bought. everything, nothing is missing. After the wedding, my husband and I also gave our son money to buy a car to help him work.
Seeing the girlfriend of a gentle boy, I was very happy. (Illustration)
Unfortunately, because of the busy business, following they got married, I rarely had time to visit. The daughter-in-law also moved to a further school, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law rarely had the opportunity to meet, but fortunately the relationship was still in harmony, never had friction.
Until my daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, I thought that my grandmother had to take care of her grandchild, so I had to put work aside and live with my son and his wife to take care of my daughter-in-law and grandchildren. Everything in the house is done with one hand by me from cooking, washing, cleaning, etc. But two generations living together cannot avoid conflicts due to disagreements, so is my family. But I see, the daughter-in-law also turned into a different person, no longer as meek as before.
Two days ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom when I accidentally heard voices in my son’s room. Listening carefully, I know that my daughter-in-law is complaining regarding me:
– My mother’s cooking is not good at all, as if intentionally adding salt to feed me, every dish is salty. I cried in the middle of the night, my mother picked it up and rocked it, did I need to sing it so loudly, it made me not sleep well. The elderly mother should stop sleeping less, but I can’t sleep well so I can’t have milk to breastfeed. Give your advice to your mother, I’m not good when I say it, but I can’t stand it.
I didn’t expect my gentle daughter-in-law to think of me like that. Why do you think I purposely cook for you to eat like that? I’m old and sometimes the seasoning doesn’t taste right, or it’s because I eat more salt than her, but she can give me some advice.
At night, my nephew often cries and loves his daughter-in-law, so every night I go to his room to hold him so that he can rest and get enough sleep. Sometimes I mightn’t sleep at all at night, but my daughter-in-law would think badly of me. What saddens me the most is that my son didn’t say a word when he heard his daughter-in-law say that.
Returning to my room, I burst into tears. My whole life has always been for my children and grandchildren, I have no daughter at home, so I always treat my daughter-in-law like my own daughter, but then the feeling is like this.
