My father-in-law recently passed away. He was a wonderful man. He was my husband’s birth father and my husband’s brother and sister were from another man. My father-in-law was always a good earner.
My mother-in-law never needed anything. She always stayed home and spent her husband’s money. And she always spent a lot of it. After my father-in-law passed away, my mother-in-law raised the question of who would support her? Since she had no seniority, she did not receive a pension, and she did not even think about working. My husband’s younger brother could not support himself. And the husband and his sister decided that every month they would take turns to pay for the mother’s expenses.
The thing is, all of this is really affecting our family. Since my mother-in-law constantly demands that she be sent to a sanatorium, treated at the best clinics and bought the most expensive clothes, I have to deny myself a lot of things. I have always worked, but now I am on maternity leave. We don’t have much money as it is. I can’t wait until my baby grows up and I go back to work. My husband gives half of my mother-in-law’s salary, and we have to make do with what we get.
It’s so unfair: doesn’t she think about her grandchildren? How can she be so selfish and think only of herself? I don’t know how to explain to my mother-in-law that she should spend less. It is not necessary that she goes with her friends to health resorts every month. I tried to talk to my husband, to explain, but he says that after my father passed away, my mother became depressed, they say, she feels bad and she does all this because she wants to distract herself.
It’s interesting, but for some reason mother-in-law doesn’t think of distractions in other ways. Like getting a job.
