Real Life. “My Daughter Married a Man Who Drags Her Down”: He Manipulates Her Any Way He Sees fit

I used to think that bad relationships between mother-in-law and son-in-law were just a joke.

I always considered my daughter an intelligent and mature person, and judging by her social circle, I thought she was a good judge of character.

However, I still can't understand how she managed to marry such a person. I think more and more often that my son-in-law showed his true nature only a few years after the wedding, and my husband and I didn't even notice it in the first years of our relationship.

From the outside, their marriage looks perfect: my son-in-law has no bad habits, he works, and once even aroused my and my husband's sympathy, but then everything changed dramatically.

I always thought that adult children, let alone a fully-fledged young family, should live separately, but my daughter and son-in-law were in no hurry to move out. A year after they moved in with us, I decided to take the young couple for a talk.

– We have to get on with our lives somehow. You can take out a mortgage. My friend recently rented an apartment in a new building. We'll help you with the down payment – my husband began. However, my son-in-law said that they didn't have any extra money for another expense, which was the mortgage installment, that they wanted to live a little, go to the cinema or buy branded clothes. I was counting on them to come to their senses, but time passed and no one even thought about buying an apartment or renting a separate place.

I am a gentle and non-confrontational person by nature, but my husband is more direct. Recently, in a conversation with my son-in-law, he brought up the subject of housing again, suggesting that they should move to a rented apartment.

– You want to throw your own daughter out of the house and condemn her to poverty? If we live in a rented apartment, you can forget about your grandchildren. All our money will go to pay for utilities and rent – he cried. Yes – we didn't think our son-in-law was such a vile manipulator.

I thought he was an ambitious, decent man, but now I look at him and see an infantile dependent person who doesn't even want to change anything in his life or do anything for his family. He has a specialized secondary education, but needs a higher education to climb the career ladder, but he considers it a waste of time.

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