The day after the wedding, my mother-in-law came to deliver breakfast, and when I saw who was with her, I resolved to get a divorce

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The day after the wedding, my mother-in-law came to deliver breakfast, and when I saw who was with her, I resolved to get a divorce

Before getting married, I often heard people say that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship is very hard to handle, like a pair of natural enemies that can never tolerate each other. I did not pay much attention to this, thinking that marriage is a matter between two people, and that a mother-in-law is merely an outsider. If you get along, you live together. If you do not get along, you live separately. Is that not an easy thing to solve? However, that is not how it turned out. Only after getting married did I fully understand that the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law simply cannot be avoided.

Long before the wedding, my mother had asserted that my life after marriage would surely be full of trouble. Because my mother-in-law is a very shrewd woman who is good at calculating her interests in everything, and this trait of hers showed itself when we were discussing marriage. At that time, over the bride price, my mother-in-law haggled over every tiny thing, and she was not even willing to pay a single cent more. It made my family very depressed. Because my husband and I already had deep feelings for each other at that time, it was impossible to call off the marriage over such a small matter, so even though my family was very unhappy about what my mother-in-law did, things had already come to that point, and they had no choice but to agree to our marriage.

To avoid conflict with my mother-in-law, after discussing it with my husband, we got married in another apartment. I originally thought that living separately from my mother-in-law this way would save me trouble. However, reality completely exceeded my expectations. On the second day of our marriage, trouble came knocking without invitation. That morning, my husband and I were still sound asleep when suddenly someone knocked on the door. I opened the door very impatiently and found my mother-in-law standing outside. Just as I was feeling curious, my mother-in-law handed over the breakfast she was holding. Although I felt a little uncomfortable inside about my mother-in-law's sudden arrival, seeing that she had come with good intentions to deliver breakfast, I was too embarrassed to complain anymore, so I let her into the house.

But I had only picked up the breakfast and taken a few bites when my mother-in-law revealed the purpose of her visit. It turned out she wanted my younger brother-in-law to move into this apartment as well, and she even said that the reason they had bought such a big apartment in the first place was to have the two brothers live together. The implication was that this apartment was not bought for me and my husband. Half of it belonged to my younger brother-in-law. After hearing my mother-in-law's speech, my husband could only shrug helplessly and persuade me to follow her wishes, so as not to stir up anything unpleasant during these happy days. Seeing this, I immediately fell silent. Although I did not mind who the apartment was allocated to, I still knew my younger brother-in-law quite well. He was already in his mid-twenties, yet he spent all day eating, drinking and having fun, never doing any proper work, and he did not even have a serious job. If he moved in to live with us, it would not only increase the living expenses for me and my husband, but having a grown young man living with us would also make me feel very inconvenienced.

On one hand, there was my mother-in-law's shrewd scheming: if I agreed to her request, my future life would surely be full of trouble. On the other hand, there was my newlywed husband, and a marriage that seemed quite good. This matter left me in a dilemma, not knowing how to choose. Friends, tell me, with a mother-in-law like this, what should I do?