Today a friend who lives next door came to visit me. We sat down for tea. The neighbor brought delicious pastries to the table. Emma (that’s the woman’s name) told a story that would make any normal person indignant. I tell it on her behalf. Emma gave me permission to share her situation with readers.
You know that I have a son and daughter. In my son’s life, everything was good: a loving wife, beautiful children, wealth. My daughter wasn’t so lucky. At first it seemed like everything was going great. She and her husband planned to have children, expand their living space, and live happily ever after. While they weren’t having children, they were saving up to buy a house. They wanted a house, not an apartment. They really wanted to have their own garden and vegetable garden, to grow vegetables and fruits, to plant flowers in the flowerbed.
Two years passed. They had saved up money, but not enough to buy a house yet. At that moment in their lives, their daughter found out she was pregnant. They decided to prepare for the addition to the family. Immediately after the birth of the baby, the son-in-law lost his job due to downsizing.
It is worth noting that he was not too worried about this. He said they had some money saved and they would live on it. In the meantime he would rest, gain energy and then he would start looking for a job.
After a week my son-in-law really started looking for a job. At least he said he was actively looking. While my daughter took care of the baby, cooked, did laundry, cleaned, my son-in-law sat at his laptop all day long.
A couple of times he went on job interviews. At least that’s what he told his daughter. Everywhere, however, he failed. He did not find any good options, and he did not want to work for a pittance. Now he has been out of work for three years. The money they were saving has gone to pay for living expenses. Buying a house is out of the question.
My daughter works remotely, while also taking care of a young child. After all, her son-in-law does not even help her, he still spends all his days at his laptop, supposedly in search of work. Not only does he not work anywhere, he also expresses frustration:
“Why is there soup for lunch again? Couldn’t you bake a chicken in the oven?”
The daughter puts up with it all, she says she doesn’t want to leave her child without her father. He loves their child. I don’t understand what kind of love that is for a child if the father can’t even earn money for diapers and milk. Or am I wrong? We have to wait another two years, what if he gets a job? By the way, my son-in-law is 33 years old.
