I'm afraid of horror movies, let alone my mother-in-law who won't sleep at night.
My husband and I have been married for 6 years now. Everything is pretty good now. Our finances have been up and down, our health has been good and bad, but basically we still love each other and are still together to build happiness.
Two years ago, we were still living separately in a small apartment that we had saved up to buy. But after the Covid pandemic, my husband was scammed by a friend who asked him to borrow a large sum of money to do business and then ran away, forcing my husband to sell the house to pay off the debt.
After losing our home, I did not blame my husband. We both moved in with my mother-in-law because she was the only one left in the house. My sister-in-law had been living abroad for a long time, so my husband and I returned to live with her to take care of her.
At first, when we first lived together, I found my mother-in-law not to be very difficult. She was very clean and attentive, the house and kitchen were always neat and dust-free. My husband and I rarely ate at my mother's house, and she didn't complain. I dressed up and went out with friends without being criticized. My mother-in-law always took care of the cleaning and cooking, I almost didn't have to do anything other than go to work to earn money and give my mother the monthly living expenses.
Sometimes my mother-in-law mentions having children, urging me to get pregnant soon because I'm over 30. My husband and I have explained this to her for a long time. One, my husband and I are not ready to raise a child yet, two, we still want to spend time going out and enjoying life outside, and three, my husband and I have not paid off all our debts yet, so our finances are not really abundant. My mother-in-law just said yes and left it at that.
I often brag to my friends that I am lucky and have a good mother-in-law. However, life is not like a dream. I recently discovered something quite disturbing, which forced my husband and I to move out immediately.
My husband and I have been together for 6 years but still have not had any children, so my mother-in-law seems to be getting more and more impatient. In recent months, my mother-in-law has been talking about pregnancy even more because the neighbor has a daughter-in-law who is infertile. The whole neighborhood is constantly gossiping, and some rude women keep dragging my mother-in-law into the conversation to ask if I am “deaf”. So when she gets home, she takes it out on me, sighing and complaining about her fate of never being able to become a grandmother.
At the end of the year, there were many things to do, plus the pressure of paying interest on my husband's debt, making it difficult for me to have a happy conversation with my mother-in-law. I asked my husband to talk to my mother-in-law privately so that she could temporarily put aside the matter of the children, and advised her from now on not to worry about what people said so that the family could be at peace. My mother-in-law immediately turned angry with both of us, telling us not to ask her for anything in the future, and that she wouldn't even bother to help take care of the grandchildren when she gave birth.
Working is tiring enough, so my husband and I usually go to bed early. Every day, we hug each other and close our eyes at 11pm, no matter how busy we are, we leave it for the next day. We only have sex a few times a month, it's a bit embarrassing to say it, but we don't have much need for it. Before going to the doctor, he said both of us were normal, so we always use contraception after each intimacy, planning to "let go" of the pregnancy when we are ready.
A few days ago, I had a dream and woke up in the middle of the night, so I got up to get a drink of water. The hallway light was on, so I suddenly noticed a dark shadow lurking at my door. I was so scared that I screamed loudly, causing my husband to wake up. Thinking it was a thief, my husband and I took a mop and checked the floor from top to bottom. Seeing that all the locks were still intact, we went back to sleep with peace of mind.
When I was about to close the door, I suddenly realized that there was something stuck in the doorknob. I picked it up and it looked like a clump of hair (?!?). Suddenly, a bunch of horrifying images popped into my head, and that night I was so scared that I couldn't sleep again, so I stayed up until morning.
The next day, I kept crying to my husband, so he had to buy a small camera to install on the door of the room for peace of mind. Since the camera was installed, I suddenly noticed that my mother-in-law had a very strange habit. She often came to my room around 12:00 - 12:30 a.m., opened the door slightly to look inside for a long time before coming back down.
We didn't tell my mother about installing the camera, so she didn't know that all her midnight "incognito" trips were seen by the children. After 3-4 consecutive days, seeing my mother-in-law still repeating that scary, furtive action, I had to tell my husband to immediately talk to her to stop it.
Who would have thought that when we exposed her for peeping into the bedroom, her mother-in-law would make us take down the camera! She said the reason she followed us every night was because "she wanted to know when you guys would have a baby". She didn't understand what we had been doing every day for the past 6 years, so she was curious. She also complained that how could a couple who slept under the covers every day and only touched each other once every few weeks get pregnant?
So what we did in the private room, my mother knew! Oh my god, the more I listened, the more my ears rang, all the blood rushed to my head, I was dizzy and couldn't stand it. My husband was so angry that he immediately helped me up to the room, speechless, not knowing what to say to his mother.
Today, after coming back from the morning market, I saw my mother-in-law sitting at the door. I greeted her as usual, but inside I was scared. I was really haunted by the bun. If I hadn't woken up in the middle of the night, my mother-in-law wouldn't have been so startled by her hair getting caught in the doorknob. Even my husband was traumatized by the thought of someone lurking outside the door every night without him knowing anything.
While we clearly expressed our opposition, my mother-in-law remained calm as if she had done nothing wrong. This afternoon my husband talked to her again, but she still insisted that she had done nothing wrong. She said that her mother only wanted the best for her children, so she kept an eye on them for peace of mind. Why didn't she try to put herself in our shoes to understand what it felt like to be secretly watched by others?
I asked my husband if he regretted moving out with his wife. He firmly said no, because he himself could not bear the pressure from his mother's unreasonable demands. We wanted to live a simple, normal life, not live according to other people's wishes.
So the two of us packed our things and moved to a cheap mini apartment we had just found yesterday. The deposit had been paid, and from now on we would start a new life. As for the conflict with my mother-in-law, we could probably solve it later, because right now I'm still so confused...
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