Three times attended ex-husband's wedding

This third time hopefully will be the last.

I have a close friend who is 10 years younger than me. In the past, because I didn't really like Na's mother, when she was first born, I didn't pay much attention to her.

But it seems that any relationship in life is related to fate, so even though Na and I didn't get along at first, we became closer and closer to each other.

When Na was 6 years old, her parents divorced. I told Na's father that no matter what they do, at this age they are prone to psychological crises, but sometimes adult things have to happen, whether we want them to or not.

Since her parents divorced, Na has not been close to her father anymore and often comes to my house to play. There was a long period of time when she almost never came home and just stayed at my house all the time. Her father also understood that his daughter was mentally unstable, so he asked me many times to take care of her. So from a childless child, I became an involuntary foster mother.

The year Na was in 8th grade, I think, I vaguely remember that around that time, she entered the rebellious age. I think the biggest reason why she had such a psychological crisis to the point of being so destructive was because around this time her father got a new wife. Although I didn't say it, I was sensitive enough to know that she was not comfortable with a strange woman in her house and her father even suggested calling her "mother".

Na called her father's new wife "Mom". For her, calling anyone "Mom" was fine because her mother was very vague in her mind. Not only when her parents divorced, but even before that, Na's mother didn't care much about her daughter. She wanted to give birth to a boy to please her rich husband's family but failed. Later, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get pregnant, so all the sins somehow became Na's.

In the end, her father discovered that her mother was having an affair, so they went their separate ways. According to Na's father, this affair was because her mother was trying to "find" a son.

Since then, Na never saw her mother again. I only heard rumors that she went to work abroad, and some people said that she followed her lover to the South to do business. Where she went was not important, what was important was that she completely abandoned her own daughter.

Na's father's new wife continued to give birth to another daughter, when Na was in 12th grade, they divorced again. The reason this time was because the girl's grandmother kept tormenting her daughter-in-law because she couldn't give birth to a son. I understood this matter, of course I knew how harsh Na's grandmother was.

This time was different from the previous time, because Na's father's new wife insisted on taking the child with her instead of letting her daughter stay with her paternal family. After meeting her a few times and through the stories Na told, I also realized that she was a person who loved her child very much.

Once, after going to her house for dinner and a little wine, her father told me that this was probably his last marriage because he was so tired. This time, he would stay single and raise Na until she got married.

Exactly 1 year later, I heard Na say that her father was about to get a new wife. It's true that men's words cannot be trusted.

On the wedding day, I was there, looking at the big wedding hall, I laughed. Na's thing is that she never lets her woman down. Every time she gets married, she has to organize a big wedding.

That day, little Na ran around to entertain guests for her father. Her father had a wide network of connections and a bit of status, and her paternal family was rich, so every time there were as many guests as the first time. I don't know why, but I suddenly asked her if she was sad, if her stepmother, who was only 3 years older, made her think about anything. Surprisingly, she smiled and replied:

"No! Dad can marry anyone, it's not the first time."

I looked at the man who had been my husband for a short period of a few months, happily holding the hand of the new bride, cutting the cake. This was the third time I had attended my ex-husband’s wedding. We divorced amicably, the reason being that I could not stand my mother-in-law and I could not get pregnant. At that immature age, I could not stand the terrible harshness of my husband’s rich, unsuitable family.

When I saw my ex-husband walking past the table to invite me to drink, I half-jokingly said that I didn't mind giving money to the wedding three times in a row, but I hoped this would be the last time because Na was already grown up, even if she was a sensible child, she would still be hurt. It's easy for us adults to find a new family, but it's not that simple for a child...

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