I think everyone has in-laws who are acting at the very least strange.
After we get married, the number of such relatives starts to increase. A prime example of such kin among my spouse’s relatives is my sister-in-law. When we first started dating, his eighteen-year-old sister-in-law was already married and pregnant. It may be a little early, but after all, everyone has his own destiny. However, the more I got to know her, the more I became convinced that she and her husband were very strange.
They lived in a two-bedroom apartment, which was last renovated fifty years ago. However, in spite of the financial difficulties, they celebrated their son’s one-year anniversary in style. They took out a large loan, rented a restaurant, and hired an announcer and a photographer. A year later their second son was born. They used the allowance they received for the baby’s birth to throw a big celebration for his baptism. When they were still celebrating their first-born, I began to doubt their adequacy, but after the christening I became convinced of my suspicions. When my sister-in-law turned twenty-three, she gave birth to a baby girl. My husband’s relatives were sure that the couple would stop there, but they were all very wrong…
One day during family gatherings, my sister-in-law announced the “wonderful” news: “I’m pregnant with my fourth!” At that very moment, the thing I most wanted to know was, what exactly was she thinking? Both sister, and her husband are not the best parents, because their children are growing up on their own, as they are not involved either in their education or their development. And when is she going to do that when she’s always pregnant? Their main activity is to take a loan to celebrate the next birthday of the offspring. During their life together they did not even bother to make a repair in the apartment, although their place is in a very poor condition.
My spouse’s little sister recently celebrated her twenty-fifth birthday, and she has almost four kids. I’m really anxious to discuss the situation. Is this normal? How are they going to fit in a two-bedroom with so many kids? I thought that this could only happen in marginal families, but my husband’s parents are perfectly normal and very decent, and my sister-in-law herself does not drink. How could it be that the son grew up a perfectly adequate person, and the daughter, to put it mildly, a little crazy?
In addition to the fact that my sister-in-law and her husband take loans all the time, they are constantly asking everyone for loans. I am afraid to even think about what will happen next! I have a feeling that this couple is not going to stop there and there will be many more surprises ahead! I really wonder what’s going on in that lady’s head and what is she thinking?
