My wife and I have lived together for 12 years. Our daughter is six years old. We live in a two-room apartment. We want my wife and I to have a second child. But we realize that the area of our two-room apartment is not enough for a normal life for the four of us. That’s why we want to buy a bigger apartment. But so far we have no money to buy such an apartment.
I really don’t want us to buy an apartment with a mortgage. But my wife thinks differently. She has especially begun to insist on buying an apartment with a mortgage lately. And here’s why.
The thing is that my wife has a younger brother. He recently got married. My mother-in-law decided to give her son his apartment, and she herself wants to move to live in the countryside, where she has a small house. But my wife is adamantly against it. She wants her mother to come and live with us. That’s why my wife demands that we buy a two-bedroom apartment with a mortgage.
And I don’t want to do that! I want us to have a second child, but I don’t want to live in the same apartment with my mother-in-law and pay the mortgage for another 15 years. When I told my wife about this, she took great offense at me. I generally think that my mother-in-law should stay living together with her son. After all, she and her wife don’t have children yet. And the apartment is two rooms and there is enough room for my mother-in-law.
I don’t want to be considered bad and greedy, but I don’t want to live in the same apartment as my mother-in-law either. So what should I do?
