Before the divorce, she cared for her child alone, but afterwards, she sought a nanny. She found one in her mother-in-law. Initially, she asked her if she knew anyone who could help, but her mother-in-law offered herself, of course, for a fee. Her salary isn’t very high, so she has to save carefully.
At work, I have a colleague who isn’t well-off. She doesn’t take care of herself, doesn’t visit beauty salons. I always wonder where her money goes. She works, lives with her parents, doesn’t have a mortgage like others, and her child is cared for by her former mother-in-law; she also receives child support payments.
It turns out that Agnes has to pay her parents for the room and her mother-in-law for childcare. I wonder how that’s possible…
Six months ago, when Agnes started working with us, we became friends. Shortly after, it became clear that we had a lot in common. Similar interests, children the same age.
Agnes immediately told me she had divorced her husband and moved back in with her parents. Her parents are well-off, both over fifty and in good jobs. They’ve built a house outside the city and spend every holiday abroad. When their daughter returned home, they gave her a room to stay in.
I thought she could live there for free, but unfortunately, from the very start, they charged her. She’s only glad they’re her parents, not strangers, which is always better for the child.
They’ve allocated her a separate shelf in the fridge; she doesn’t use her parents’ things and only sometimes they treat her child to some fruit.
I can’t understand how they can behave like this, especially since when Agnes parted from her husband, she had nothing, so she was in debt to her parents for the first few months.
Before the divorce, she looked after the child herself, but later she started looking for a nanny. She found one—her mother-in-law. Initially, she asked if she knew anyone who could help, but her mother-in-law offered her services—naturally, for a fee. Agnes quite liked the arrangement because her mother-in-law knows the grandchild, knows what he likes and dislikes, what he can and cannot do. She’s responsible. So Agnes agreed, and when necessary, the mother-in-law looks after the little one.
Everything would be fine, but Agnes doesn’t have much money; she can hardly afford her living expenses, let alone any luxuries.
I can’t understand how parents can treat their own child this way…
