This week I visited my mom again. The thing is that my dad left for work a few years ago, and my mom was left alone, so my brother and I visit her sometimes, or she didn’t miss me at all. This time, she invited me to come. The reason was simple: she needed money again.
If it had happened earlier, I would have been happy to give it to her, but lately it has been happening so often that I couldn’t help but ask: “Mom, maybe you should find a job?”
Now my wife and I are in a difficult situation. She’s on maternity leave, and I’m bearing all the expenses, and then there’s my mother calling almost every day to ask for her money.
The thing is, my mom has never worked in her life. Not a single day. She and my dad got married when she was still at university. That’s when she got pregnant, on maternity leave. And then my father started to go to work, so he said that you won’t earn enough anyway, so you should stay at home. So she got used to staying at home, and even when my brother and I grew up, nothing changed.
At one time, my father bought apartments for my brother and me. However, my brother has now moved out and I live alone with my mother. My father divides everything he earns into three – for himself, my wife and I, and my mother. Of what he sends us, we then give half to my mother, because she is not good at managing money. She can go out and buy a new, unnecessarily expensive dress and not leave a single hryvnia so that she has something to eat tomorrow.
She’s never worked, so she doesn’t understand that bills don’t just fall out of the sky. She used to say that she would return the money, but it never happened, so now she just asks for it.
For the last year, my father decided that he would give me money for my mother to buy her groceries and give me money for personal expenses. But it’s never enough for her. She is a real magpie who is ready to buy whatever she wants, and this is a terrible quality. In addition to wasting money, she also brings home a lot of junk.
My father works hard at the factory. Recently, he started taking extra hours, saying that while he is still on his feet, he wants to earn money for his granddaughter to buy her own apartment. I know that in order to do this, he may lose sleep and deprive himself of something. I asked my father not to overwork himself, because my wife and I will also earn money, and we need him to be healthy, but my mother tells him otherwise. She seems to be convinced that he has to provide for her until his last day…
