Married for Years, My Mother-in-Law Delivered Groceries and 3,000 Yuan Every Month, and a Year Later I Filed for Divorce

Married for years, my mother-in-law delivered groceries and money on schedule, 3,000 yuan a month, and a year later I filed for divorce

Some people divorce because they are unhappy with their husband, some because they are unhappy with their mother-in-law, but I happened to be stuck with both. An absurd mother-in-law and an absurd husband - for their sake I wore my lips thin and suffered endlessly. Now I no longer want to put up with a husband who has been spoiled by his mother to the point of barely being able to take care of himself, and I no longer want to be irresponsible about my own life.

Before I married my husband, I only knew that he was a man who had never been through any hard knocks, and because he was truly sincere toward me, I married him. But I never imagined that the husband I thought I could reform single-handedly would turn out to be so hopelessly stubborn. When my husband and I married, my family brought a considerable dowry, and we also received quite a lot of gift money at the wedding, about more than 200,000 yuan in total - a sum that was neither large nor small. My husband had never seen so much money before, and his true nature showed: he stopped going to the company to work, no longer wanted to suffer the 9-to-5 grind for 3,000 yuan a month, and stayed at home eating away at his savings.

This decision of my husband's naturally met with fierce opposition from me. A young man should be out there striving in his career - how could he sleep and play games at home like a parasite? No one understood, except my mother-in-law. That my mother-in-law doted on her son to such an extent truly caught me off guard. No matter how I laid out the facts and reasoned with her, my mother-in-law always had just one line: "If he's tired, let him rest; when the money runs out, he can go out and earn more." Or she would comfort me by saying, "If you two don't have enough money to spend, Mom has some here." After hearing these words, instead of feeling relieved, I worried even more about this family. Although my mother-in-law's pension was quite high, that was ultimately not a long-term solution for us; the household expenses were so great that my salary alone was far from enough.

My husband really did care about me, but his behavior worried me more and more. One day he would buy me a handbag, the next day a watch, and my mother-in-law would chime in, saying that my husband cared about me very much. Facing this mother-and-son pair, I did not know whether to laugh or cry. Soon the real disaster struck: after staying at home for more than a year, my husband finally spent all the money in his hands. I thought this was finally the chance to bring up the matter of him going to work.

But my mother-in-law pulled the rug out from under me once again. She gave my husband 3,000 yuan a month for living expenses and even told him that if he had not rested enough, he should keep resting. I really could not think of any way to change this absurd mother-and-son pair. Married for years, I could see no hope for the future life. The house was also provided by my mother-in-law, my husband had no fixed income, let alone a successful career, and my mother-in-law kept indulging her son's laziness and love of comfort. Such a family was undoubtedly a tomb, little by little devouring my youth. I did not want to wait until everything was truly eaten away and then regret it, so I decided that while I was still young and still had the heart to strive upward, I would leave this family of unrestrained spoiling. I filed for divorce from my husband. I really could not stand it anymore, and I did not want to see my mother-in-law's doting on my husband again. Sometimes I would rather call this kind of doting murder.

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