I told my husband that we should help my mother with money every month. Honestly, it took me a long time to decide to have this conversation because I didn’t know how he would react to it.
We live in prosperity and have a wonderful son. I am a happy wife, our family has everything. Until now, we lived separately from our parents. It so happened that our mothers were left alone. Both my dad and my husband’s dad left the family and stopped being interested in us. Four months ago, my mother-in-law moved in with us.
She is older and needs help. So my husband and I decided to take her to us. We agreed to rent out my mother-in-law’s apartment. I didn’t mind her moving into our house, because my mother-in-law and I are on good terms.
Moreover, this way she will be able to save some money for herself.
My husband has his own business, and I help him with financial matters. I work from home. I control the company’s expenses and profits, check if everything adds up.
We provide for ourselves. And we are doing a great job. I take care of our son, do housework, and work. My mother-in-law says that she lives with us like a resort.
And it really is. The only thing she does is play with the child. And then only when she feels like it. Everything suits me as well. I cook and clean by myself.
Recently, I started to notice that my mother has food in the fridge only when we warn her about our visit. All the other times I came unannounced, there was only bread, eggs and boiled potatoes in the fridge. I was quite alarmed by this.
I pretended not to notice anything. Then I decided to see for myself. But four times cannot be a coincidence. I called my husband and told him that from now on I would allocate two thousand hryvnias from our budget for my mother. And this is without discussion.
My husband took it well. He even offered to give her a bigger amount or to pay my mother’s utility bills.
I thought my husband would not take it well. He said that my mother lives alone and needs help, and his mother is with us, so she doesn’t need anything. If she does need something, we are here for her. Honestly, I did not expect such a reaction.
The only thing was that he was a little offended that I might have thought he wouldn’t like my idea. Since then, I’ve been convinced once again that my husband is extremely sensitive and polite.
My mom was very happy. She did sometimes lack money, but she didn’t want to tell us about it. She said we had our own expenses, our child, our mother-in-law. How could she think that? Of course, my mother was very happy, although at first she refused to help. I think parents should be helped if they can.