Now my wife and I live a little better than when we were young, but we still have enough to worry about.
My daughter is finishing her studies, my son is a graduate and is preparing for the exams with all his might, he wants to get into a good university on a tight budget. We have enough expenses, but we are not drowning, we have our own apartment, we both work.
And everything would be fine if it weren't for my wife's mother. After her mother's death (my wife's grandmother died a year ago), my mother-in-law was possessed by a demon. She felt uncomfortable in her two-room apartment. Every time we met, she told us about her desire. And her dream was to sell the apartment and buy a house in the country. Her only experience of living in a private house was weekends in a country cottage.
She and her late husband had a summer cottage, they planted things there, but mostly they rested. When my father-in-law got very sick, they had to sell the cottage to help him, but it didn't help. And so my mother-in-law's soul yearned, as she says, for land and flowers!
She said she didn't want to live in the country anymore and would rather move to the city. I asked her how she would manage. Her old apartment, on the ground floor, on the outskirts of town, wasn't worth much. With that money she could buy a house, not a normal one, but anything she could find. And there she would invest more in renovations than the house itself was worth. And then this music would be eternal: oh, the roof leaked, oh, the basement flooded, oh, the porch is swaying, do something, dear son-in-law! And I had no time for all this, nor the slightest desire.
Besides, what will she use to fix and improve the house? From her pension? I wouldn't laugh now. We have enough expenses now. And my mother-in-law kept singing: “People in the countryside are so good, so honest, there'll be someone to talk to! The weather, nature, everything grows under the window…”
I could tell her a lot about communication, but she wouldn't listen. My wife said: “Mom, you could at least read on the Internet, watch movies about how people live in the countryside. You're not that old, you can't do it…”.
However, my mother-in-law insisted that she wanted to go to the country and that was it. We spent a lot of time and energy helping her fulfill her dream. At first she was delighted, but then my fears came true. My mother-in-law called us to all kinds of jobs and breakdowns, and we were fed up with it.
When we refused to come once, she said, offended, that she was selling the house and moving back to the city. Imagine our surprise when she told us where exactly she had decided to live. It turned out that since she had sold her city apartment and then sold her cottage in the country, she had decided to move in with us.
We couldn't send her anywhere when one evening she showed up on our doorstep with suitcases and bags. Now I don't know what to do, because I love my wife very much, but at the same time I can't stand living with my mother-in-law under one roof…
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