– My husband and I were shocked! – Rebecca, fifty years old, said. – What she, so to speak, the young man did all her pregnancy, so it’s no fairy tale to tell, no words to describe … And sent her to the abortion, and from the apartment, which they rented, expelled. And yelled everywhere that the child was not his – she got pregnant, they say. He exhausted all my nerves, honestly!
– I see…
– Towards the end, about three weeks before delivery, he seemed to calm down, I hear he called Alice, he spoke normally, without a hitch, he was interested in how his health, how the child is, who will be, when. But he did not come even once for all the time she was with us, he did not buy a single cap for the child, he did not buy her any apples… We had a grandson on Thursday! They are discharging them tomorrow. My daughter and my husband tell me that Robert is going to be picking them up from the hospital. We were blown away! After all that was …
– Well… Maybe the man is on the path to correction? Does it make sense to give him a chance?
– I don’t know where he went, but my father and I are totally against it. I told you, we didn’t see any support from him during the whole pregnancy. Where is he taking her and the baby? Alisa says that he rented a one-room flat… What nonsense, with a newborn – in some bed-and-breakfast, not even in Moscow, but in some unknown place! Alisa’s father said – if this bastard shows up for the checkout, we will turn around and leave, and you can go on living as you know …
Alice, daughter of Rebecca and her husband, twenty-six years old. Pretty sweet girl, a darling daughter, the only child in the family. A year and a half ago, Alisa began dating Robert, whom her parents did not like very much.
He has no education, he studied at school, but, according to him, he just stupidly did not go to pass the exams for the eleventh grade. Although Rebecca suspects that he did not pass the ninth grade exams either, he just does not say such things, so as not to look pale.
Robert works as a longshoreman for a furniture company, and hopefully earns good money. For a man of his level, absolutely no education – so just fine. His official salary is ridiculous, but he leaves mainly on part-time work and tips. A man orders, for example, new furniture, it is brought to him by the guys, and he asks the old one to disassemble and take out. Sometimes this old is quite decent, it can even be sold, the owner does not mind – take it and do what you want.
In general, mice something, spinning, and it turns out okay.
Alice has a college degree, she is a marketing specialist, worked in the advertising agency before maternity, she wore suits and heels, met with men of the same level. But then, out of nowhere, this Robert showed up on her life path. Some furniture they brought to Alice’s office, or something. And so they met.
– They began to live together against all odds! – Rebecca tells me. – All her friends were shocked, no one understood, I think.
And then there was a sudden pregnancy. Robert desperately did not want to get married and for almost nine months, took the nerves out of the whole family. Alisa went to her parents and they were getting ready for the baby. They made repairs in Alice’s former room, bought things for the child, paid for the birth in a good clinic.
– And now he came, beckoned her finger – and all, all that we did, nothing means! – almost crying Rebecca. – She is ready to leave us and go to him, who knows what apartment with the child. That’s what good parents should do in such a case, huh? Let her go and wish her happiness? Wait until the next time she comes crying and wearing barefoot slippers? And that will happen sooner or later!
Do you think it’s okay to give your daughter an ultimatum: “If he comes, we’ll leave? Is it right to support your child in his decision? She decided to forgive and give her husband a second chance, so that’s the way it is?
Or can parents be understood?
