Our whole family is still shocked by what my shortsighted daughter-in-law did.
At first she talked about how a woman's happiness is in motherhood, she even quit her job at the very beginning of her pregnancy so that nothing would happen, and then she gave birth to twins, spent three months as a mother, and then she said that she overestimated herself, was tired of everything and left, leaving the children husband.
She said she preferred to pay alimony. My, I hope soon to be, daughter-in-law Ilona was twenty-three when they got married. She didn't listen, she said they loved each other very much. Ilona's position in life was that a man is a source of income, hope and support, while a woman is a caregiver, mother and housewife.
Eight months after the wedding, my daughter-in-law shared the good news that they were expecting a new family member. She immediately quit her job because she couldn't stand going to the office every day.
It turned out that my daughter-in-law was expecting not one, but two children. “It was a surprise,” she said optimistically. “That's great! I'll be able to jump in and have two children at once! They'll start playing together and it'll be easier for me,” she chirped. I didn't want to break her down, but I tried to tell her that one child is already difficult, but two at once is really hard.
My son, realizing that it would be difficult for his wife to give birth to two children, immediately began buying a dishwasher, a washing machine with a drying function, a robotic vacuum cleaner and other household items that would make life easier for a young mother. If we had such helpers when we were young, we would not have known regret! And my daughter-in-law absorbed tons of literature on motherhood, went to courses for pregnant women, did special yoga and completely devoted herself to this process, so to speak. I don't know how all this helped her, but she did not give birth on her own, she had a cesarean section, because the doctors had some bad suspicions. But these are trifles, the most important thing is that she gave birth to two wonderful, healthy children.
Ilona's parents live somewhere in the east of the country, so they couldn't come to the hospital for discharge, and I took two weeks off work for the duration of the labor to help my daughter-in-law. Even though I was with them all day, helping and advising, my daughter-in-law was unhappy and tired. What was she thinking? That she would give birth and on a walk she would just smile and take beautiful pictures of the little ones?
I tried to relieve her as much as possible, but I wasn't going to take all the worries on myself. After all, she was the mother. After my vacation ended, I still tried to drop by the young mother's house in the evenings to help her with something. I didn't like Ilona's behavior. She did everything wrong, and when she couldn't do it right, she would go crazy and give up. I would show her how to do it right, and she would go crazy and shout that if I was doing it so well, I should be able to take the initiative because she was tired.
Three months later, at about ten in the evening, my son called me. He sounded confused and asked me to come over. He said that Ilona had packed her things, said she was tired and overestimated herself, so she was leaving the children and going away. I couldn't believe my ears.
The mother left two small children and went away because she was tired. At first we thought it was just hysteria, she would calm down, sleep somewhere at a friend's and come back. She didn't come back for a week or two. In a phone conversation with her husband she told him that she was wrong before the birth, that she didn't need children now, that she wasn't ready for them.
Ilona filed for divorce. She said it would be better to work and pay alimony. I insist that my son terminate her parental rights as soon as possible. Otherwise, this cuckoo will wait until we raise her children and then come for them, because she is a mother.
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