I don’t want to make my children and grandchildren unhappy on the first day of the new year. My mother suppressed her physical and emotional pain.
My family has 3 girls and 1 boy, everyone lives far away from their parents. Although the work is very busy and the distance is far, my sister and I have an appointment to celebrate Tet at our mother’s house on the 2nd.
Because my house is a little closer, I went back to my grandmother the earliest. When I got home, the first person I saw was a neighbor named Nhan, carrying a bowl of porridge from the kitchen to my mother’s room. I entered the room and saw my mother lying on the bed.
Uncle Nhan said on the morning of the 1st, when he went to wish Tet, the two talked a few sentences, then my mother fainted. My mother rested for a while, then regained consciousness and since then she has been very weak. He advised my mother to call the children to take them to the hospital. However, the mother refused, saying that her health was still good, so that her children and grandchildren might have a happy Tet.
Saying no to my mother, the neighbor had to take care of her and talk to her to ease her sadness. Listening to what Uncle Nhan told me, my tears didn’t stop. Without your enthusiastic help, I don’t know if I would still see my mother this New Year.
After my sisters and I had returned, I advised my youngest brother, Tuan, to bring his mother to live with him so that he might take care of him at the end of his life. Because her mother has heart disease, living alone is not safe.
Tuan said he really wanted to bring his mother to live with him, but now he and his wife are staying in a motel, a small room is very inconvenient, and renting a larger house will cost money. The eldest sister advised Tuan to return to his hometown to work and take care of his mother. Because she and her husband have been working for more than 10 years and can’t afford to raise children, they have to call every month to ask for money from their eldest sister.
Tuan’s wife suddenly said that her mother’s family had only one child, so she really wanted to go back to her hometown to live to support her parents. Grandparents promised to build a house for the children if they would live there.
As a daughter, we very well understand the legitimate aspirations of our sister-in-law, so we cannot force her to go back to her husband’s house to live. My 3 sisters are all workers, family life is not rich. We really want her to have a comfortable old age with her children and grandchildren, but we cannot bring her back to live with us. According to everyone, what should we do?
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