My daughter has been generous since childhood: always sharing candy with me when she was little, and helping with money when she grew up and got on her feet.
Most of the time I refused financial help because I was still working. I had enough money to live on before I retired. Now I get a meager sum of money, which is barely enough to pay for utilities and a modest living allowance. I can only afford vegetables and inexpensive cereals.
For this reason, my health has deteriorated and there is no possibility for treatment. I once visited a doctor, who prescribed the necessary pills, but I can’t buy them.
My daughter lives in a big city, far away from me. Recently she got married for the second time. The couple is well provided for: an expensive foreign car, an apartment, foreign resorts. For example, half a year ago my daughter and her son-in-law vacationed in Cyprus. They showed me pictures: it was very beautiful.
My relationship with my daughter is good: we often call each other, she asks about my health. I often lied to her about my well-being, because I didn’t want her to worry and be nervous. I told my daughter that I was eating a healthy turkey with natural juice. In fact, I hadn’t eaten anything like that in years.
I do not know how my daughter could believe my fairy tales, because we live in one world, she knows my pension and today’s prices in the stores. You can put two and two together.
A month ago I gave up and called my daughter to ask for help. I did not have enough for food supplies, and also, I am ashamed to admit, I did not even have any socks left. My daughter supported me and sent money the same day, but you can’t call it money. What can I buy with five hundred rubles, tell me? Then my daughter called to make sure the transfer had arrived. I could hardly contain my tears.
Now I have no desire to ask for anything. I will continue to lie about my diet, if she does not understand that it is difficult for a pensioner to support herself.
Isn’t her daughter ashamed to help her mother like this? She spends more than that on her breakfast. I do not believe that she is so naive and does not know the prices. I don’t want to talk to her now.
