Living with a mother-in-law is not easy but I never expected to be treated like this.
Life is truly unpredictable. Just yesterday I was telling myself that my mother-in-law is still my mother, even if she is difficult and a bit stubborn, I should still try to endure it, but the next day things took a 180 degree turn.
My mother-in-law handed me a piece of paper with the words divorce petition and forced my husband and I to sign it. What shocked me the most was not the paper but the conditions for child custody. After hearing that, I just wanted to scream: “Oh my God, what kind of mother-in-law have I met?”
Here’s the story. My husband and I have been married for 2 years and have a 1-year-old son. We got married because we had been in love for many years and had good news. My husband is the youngest son, his sister was married so from the beginning we decided to live with her mother.
I don't know how it was before, but since I became a daughter-in-law, I have heard many times from the neighbors that my mother is terrible. As a daughter-in-law, I have to stay at home, and my husband works far away and only comes back once or twice a month, so I have to endure it. If the food is not to her liking, she scolds me, if I spend too much money, she scolds me, if I don't take care of the children to her liking, she scolds me too.
Having said that, I am not the type to be bullied easily. Whatever she said was right, I listened, but there were times when I was unfairly scolded, I decided to take my child back to my parents' house to relieve my anger. My husband was also in a difficult situation, he could only encourage his wife: "Come on, my mother is used to this, please bear with it a little longer."
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That day was the weekend, I had a day off so I stayed home to play with my child. I didn’t know where my mother had been or what she had been doing, but she was always kicking and hitting things, scolding and cursing, but it sounded like she was referring to me and my child. Unable to hold back, I spoke up: “Mom, if you have something to say, just say it. Why are you so mean to me?”
As if she was just waiting for me to say that, my mother-in-law suddenly shouted: “Oh! Are you guilty? Where did you get this habit of a daughter-in-law who finds fault with her mother-in-law? Not only that, she is also rude, arguing with me at every opportunity, and taking my grandchild back to her parents' house at every opportunity. Oh my God! Why am I so miserable! Where is Thang (my husband's name)? Why isn't he home to watch this scene?”
Too frustrated, I went home, took the child and went back to my parents' house to get away from my mother-in-law. Unexpectedly, after yelling for a while, she called and told my husband to quit his job and come home immediately. That night, my husband rushed home and texted his wife to come home and talk.
Entering the house, I saw my mother-in-law sitting in the middle of the living room with a sullen face. Before I could ask what was going on, my mother-in-law slammed a piece of paper on the table and said in a harsh voice: “Here are the divorce papers, both of you sign them. I can’t stand this situation anymore. My son is gone forever, my daughter-in-law is arguing with her mother-in-law, only focusing on taking her son back to her parents’ house. There’s no way I’d raise my son this old, get married, and now let my daughter-in-law ride roughshod over me.”
My husband is gentle and never disobeys his mother, so he just sits next to her and says: "Hey, Mom... Please calm down and talk."
As for me, my ears were ringing and I stood still for a few seconds. My mother-in-law and I really had a fight, but my husband and I didn't have any serious problems. Why did my mother-in-law decide our marriage like that?
“Mom, why did you do that? Why did you suddenly ask us to divorce? And the reason is that our personalities are not compatible and we often argue? And then the child will be raised by the father and the paternal family? Where did that agreement come from, Mom? Let us handle our marriage,” I asked in confusion.
But that was not the climax of the matter, my mother-in-law heard me ask and immediately stood up and shouted: "My son and my grandson are my decisions. If you want to take my grandson away, leave the wedding gold of the two of us."
Hearing that, I almost fell over. I didn't know what my mother-in-law had been thinking during the short time I was away from home. She said she would keep the gold for her grandchildren, that I would only spend it lavishly and give it all to my new love.
It turned out that my mother-in-law suspected that I was having an affair while my husband was away working, which is why she caused such a scene. Of course I did not agree. It was a gift from both families, the property of both husband and wife, estimated at about 400 million VND, and I still kept it in the safe for my children. Yet my mother-in-law said it calmly as if it was her own money.
“Mom, that gold belongs to my husband and I. And I didn’t have an affair or do anything wrong to my husband that would make you do that, so I don’t agree,” I said.
“Oh! You’re starting to argue with adults again. Thang, look at your wife, you keep defending her” - the mother-in-law raised her voice again.
Feeling too tired and unable to continue talking to such an unreasonable person, I sighed: “I didn’t expect you to think so badly of me. If you want us to divorce, that’s fine, but I will definitely raise my child and protect my assets. I’m going to put him to bed.”
Having said that, I couldn’t sleep that night, holding my child in my arms and tears streaming down my face. I thought about what was waiting for me. If I really got a divorce, would I have to choose between losing custody of my child and losing my property? If I didn’t get a divorce and continued living with my mother-in-law like this, I would go crazy. My husband was so kind that he became a fool, I couldn’t rely on him. I was really at a dead end. My mother-in-law wrote a divorce petition and asked her son and daughter-in-law to sign it, then demanded 300 million to keep the child - how bitter it sounded!
Source: https://giadinh.suckhoedoisong.vn/tuc-trao-nuoc-mat-me-chong-viet-don-ly-hon-bat-con-dau-va-con-trai-ky-vao-cai-gia-de-buoc-ra-khoi-nha-la-de-lai-400-trieu-1722503100838039.htm
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