Hearing these words from my husband’s parents, I was really touched, but for a long time I thought that they hated me.
27 years old married, before that many of my friends were already on the flower car. Listening to them tell stories regarding the bride’s in-laws made me feel a bit worried when I returned to be the Dang’s bride, especially when the two of us mightn’t register for each other.
My family was originally poor, my father was an alcoholic, or a gambler, while my mother, out of boredom, often vented all her frustrations on my sisters. When I was 18 years old, I passed the university entrance exam, although my parents forced me to work to earn money, I still decided to study, because I found that only this path might change my life.
So I went to the city to study and work part-time to earn money to cover living expenses as well as school fees, because my parents did not support me at all. I always try my best and then I graduate with excellent grades and get a job in a big company. The salary is very good, but because every month I have to send money to my sister to study and help her parents, so the savings are not much.
Meanwhile, Dang’s family has conditions, houses on the street, and a decent family. When he took me home to meet his family, I felt that his parents were difficult to approach, especially his brother because even if I said hello, he would just say yes and not say anything more.
Knowing my family’s situation, the more they objected to me and Dang coming together. However, his love for me was big enough for his parents to give in. My love for him is also big enough to overcome all fears when coming home to be his bride.
When I first became a bride, my personality was quiet, I did not dare to say much for fear of offending my husband’s parents by mistake. I was always reserved and careful little by little for fear of clashing with my husband’s parents, because they didn’t like me. In fact, her husband’s parents are in business, so work is very busy. Besides, I also work, so I have a reputation of sharing a house, but we only see each other at night.
Time has passed, I have been married to Dang for 3 years now and we have a daughter over 1 year old together. A few days ago, my daughter was sick, so I asked for a leave of absence to take care of her for a few days.
Every night I cried and cried, one day when I was sleeping, I woke up crying and threw up the whole blanket. Taking advantage of my baby’s sleep, I work once more, because due to the nature of my work, I still have to work at home, not completely rest. Therefore, every day I lack sleep and often wake up very late in the morning.
That morning, my neighbor came over to my house to play and disparaged me in front of my husband’s parents. (Illustration)
One morning, when I was coming down the stairs from upstairs, I was regarding to go downstairs when I heard the neighbor’s grandmother coming over to play and talk to her mother-in-law. Her voice boomed:
– Damn, it’s 9 am and your daughter-in-law hasn’t woken up yet? My daughter-in-law got up at dawn, went to the market to make breakfast, cleaned the house and went to work a long time ago.
“You know he hasn’t woken up yet, but do you know he’s got to stay up all night?” My daughter-in-law is not like her turn to comment, she should teach her daughter-in-law to be good. I don’t need you to take care of me.
Those are the words my father-in-law said. After saying this, my father-in-law immediately left, and my mother-in-law corrected the embarrassment with the neighbors:
– She sympathizes, my grandfather is like that, it’s strange if you stay here for a long time, so don’t pay attention. Normally, Hang (my name) also wakes up very early, but recently Bo (my child) is sick, so her mother has to stay up all the time.
In addition, my daughter-in-law still has to work at home, when she sleeps at night, she tries to work, so she can’t sleep at night. Besides, there’s nothing to do with waking up early, mother and daughter looking at each other, it’s better to let it sleep a little longer, it won’t matter.
Hearing those words from my husband’s parents, I was really touched. For a long time, I thought that my grandparents hated me, but when I saw outsiders touching their daughter-in-law, they spoke out in such frank defense. Just that much is enough for me to see how good my husband’s parents are, even though they don’t show it, in their hearts they definitely consider me as the only child in the family to say such things, right?