I really liked the girl my son was dating. But they quarreled and he married someone else.
Vika seemed arrogant and unsociable to me. It bothered me because they were going to live with us. My eldest daughter and her husband had bought an apartment in another city, opened their own little business, and they didn’t ask for our help. My daughter said she wouldn’t claim her share of the apartment if my son stayed with us and helped us out. He agreed.
My granddaughter was born, and then my daughter-in-law started setting her son up to sell our apartment and buy two studio apartments. I had a private conversation with him, telling him he could be left with nothing if I wanted him to. At the time, he was driving my husband’s car with power of attorney. We had planned to give the youngsters the car for their granddaughter. But we realized that with that attitude, we shouldn’t do it.
Little by little we got used to it, life got better. After 10 years my daughter-in-law’s parents gave us money for the first payment, we added the rest. By this time my son and daughter-in-law had already bought a car themselves. We asked for another baby, but my daughter-in-law said she didn’t want to lose her job and take care of the baby again.
And now the granddaughter is 17 years old and they inform us that the daughter-in-law is pregnant and it will be a boy! Allegedly the daughter will get married and leave them and they will be lonely. Not only are we all shocked, but so is the granddaughter. She didn’t believe it at first, thinking her parents were playing a joke on her, but then she was very offended when she realized it was true. She needs their help now, and they will invest all their time and resources into the baby. I can understand the granddaughter, she is used to being alone, everything for her, dreaming that they would buy her a car, help her with housing, and then this.
I can’t understand my son listening to his wife on everything. I’m so upset, I think I won’t love my grandchild either.
