Rebecca believes that good children don’t move away from their parents until they die. She is the kind of person who is convinced that she always needs help and someone else’s company, otherwise she will immediately feel abandoned and unwanted. This was not felt so strongly while she was married, but when her father-in-law exchanged her for a woman who was nine years younger than Rebecca , she lost confidence in others and began to cling even more actively to Alina – her daughter.
My mother-in-law wants the three of us to live together and have grandchildren as soon as possible, because she feels too lonely when Alina and I are at work.
I think she’s having a mid-life crisis. She is retired, doesn’t do anything, doesn’t communicate with anyone, and only sees joy in me and my daughter. Because she only talks to us, we were afraid to tell her that we wanted to rent our own apartment. And for good reason. Rebecca herself overheard my conversation with the landlord and made me such a scandal that it gives me a headache when I remember how she yelled.
– You’re a monster! You want to separate me and Alina! That’s such a snake in my chest, I thought you were my son, I took care of you, and you are thinking this way!
Alina tried to talk sense into my mother, but my mother-in-law immediately burst into tears and howled at the whole apartment, making the neighbors bang on the radiators.
And we already paid the deposit for the rent!
Alina had the idea that I should be the first to move in, and she’ll come back later. And so at least once in a while will stay at my place, and gradually to ennoble the rented apartment. I, like a fool, agreed, and for a month and a half I have been living alone in the apartment and paying for it. Rebecca’s married daughter does not let go for a minute, from work to meet her, so she did not think to come to me. I feel at least divorced and abandoned, too.
She is a grown woman, she has been through so much in her life, and she can’t let a child go in her own life. We will never have children at this rate, if we manage to keep the marriage alive with such a crazy mother-in-law. Alina hasn’t called or made excuses lately, as if she is only happy there with her mother, and they don’t even notice my absence.
What should I do with my mother-in-law? How do I get her off my back and take my wife back to my place?
