Mother divorced Father because she despised his poverty, and when she remarried she sent him an invitation; when she pushed open the door, she was stunned.

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Mother despised Father for being poor and divorced him; when she remarried she sent Father an invitation, and after pushing open the door she was dumbfounded.

The reason love is so bewildering and hard to fathom is that it can change with circumstances, status, the feelings between two people, and even the influence of both families. Therefore, a partner who can walk hand in hand with you to white hair is truly rare. The couple in this article also waved goodbye to each other at the fork in the road of fate, except that when they wanted to meet again, they found that fate no longer gave them the chance.

Chang Xiang said that the deepest and most selfless love she had ever felt came from her parents. At the time, her mother's family was fairly well-off, the daughter of a locally comfortably-off family. Because she took a fancy to her father, who was poor but of good character, she finally, despite her family's opposition, ran away from home and married him in a way that almost cut off relations with her maiden family. She said that for a rich girl who had long been pampered by her parents and had never suffered hardship, this was such a hard thing to do that she herself, as their daughter, could not even imagine it.

Although life after marriage was not well-off for the two of them, being able to stay with the person she liked made her mother feel quite satisfied. Especially after giving birth to her daughter, she felt even more that her life was complete, and from then on, as long as she could spend her whole life together with her husband and daughter, that would be enough. But because her husband's family was not well-off, the family members at Chang Xiang's maternal grandparents' home often came to the door to belittle him, going to the extreme of mockery and humiliation, and every time Chang Xiang's mother angrily drove them away.

At first, the two still had a very good relationship and were not affected by these things, but gradually, because her own family members always came to the door to ridicule him, and her mother saw that her husband's career still had not improved, she could not help but worry, and in her words she often blamed him for being poor and incapable, though it was all in the sense of being disappointed that he did not meet her expectations, and occasionally she mentioned divorce, though that too was only as a means of encouragement. Then one day, Chang Xiang's father suddenly proposed divorce to her mother, and did not even want the child, saying to let her take the child away. At first her mother was stunned, then at a loss. She guessed that maybe her own family members had come to the door again and put pressure on her father, or maybe it was because of her own angry words, so she told him not to worry, since she herself had made up her mind to spend her whole life with him. But her father directly said that he had someone else he liked, and told her mother not to pester him anymore and to let him be free. After hearing this, her mother completely broke down, crying and making a scene at home, even losing her composure in front of the child, but her father remained unmoved throughout. Later they divorced, and her mother took Chang Xiang, who was only 8 years old at the time, back to her own maiden family.

For 5 years there was no contact at all between her parents. After that, her mother decided to remarry, but because she felt a knot of resentment in her heart, she decided before the wedding to send her ex-husband an invitation asking him to attend her wedding, yet after going to his door and pushing it open, she stood there dumbfounded on the spot. Because hanging high in the room was her ex-husband's portrait of the deceased. Only then did she learn that her ex-husband had already died of cancer not long after they had just divorced. Only then did her mother realize that her ex-husband, upon learning that he had a terminal illness, had used such a white lie to deceive his wife into leaving, precisely because he did not want to make her sad, and did not want the poor family circumstances to drag down his wife and daughter.

Her mother cried her heart out. She had never expected that this misunderstanding, fabricated single-handedly by her husband, would leave the two of them with a lifetime of regret. And from then on, her mother never remarried, and alone raised her to this day. She said the reason her mother did not remarry was that in her heart she possessed a love that could never be replaced in a lifetime, and therefore she never felt lonely. Were you all also moved by this true love?