I'm glad my son and his wife got divorced, I won't hide it.
But the fact that he blames me now is out of the question. He claims that for the happiness of his family I could have compromised. But I think that if a marriage fell apart over such a trifle, it should never have been formed.
My son Michał married Wanda two years ago. Deep down I knew nothing would come of it, because she had a calculator instead of a soul. When she came home, I could literally hear her counting everything she saw in her head.
She looked at me from top to bottom, walking around the apartment. Not just out of curiosity, but in an estimating way, as if she were going to have a sale here tomorrow and needed to know what she could sell and for how much.
The whole conversation revolved around money and material goods. Who worked where, how much they earned, other relatives who gave gifts – everything revolved around money and other material goods. When she found out that I also had a plot of land with a summer house, she literally blossomed, but when she found out that everything was in my name, her euphoria passed. It's understandable why I didn't like her.
I told my son, who was in a hurry to find out what I thought, the truth – it didn't suit him. He cares about love, and she cares about money. In general, she sees all people from the point of view of utility. As long as she can get something out of them, Wanda will stick around, but when the benefits run out, she'll leave.
Michael took offense at my assessment, saying that her job simply revolved around money and that was why she was so interested in it. I even laughed at his naivety: “Your grandmother studied analysis and did all these things her whole life. And now what?” My son frowned and said that, as usual, I was twisting everything.
After the civil wedding, the young couple moved into a rented apartment. I didn't invite them to my place, and they didn't ask me to. The young family seemed to want to save up for a separate apartment, but it was hard to tell from their spending that they were saving for anything. They went on vacation, bought new phones, or spent money on unnecessary nonsense.
What can you save this way? They don't get tens of thousands to pay rent, save for an apartment and pamper themselves all the time. I asked my son about saving. He explained that Wanda doesn't want to live in austerity mode because her youth is passing and she has to take everything from life, and they'll somehow deal with the apartment later.
If they decided to do this, it's their business, but then it became clear how Wanda planned to deal with the apartment. My son started telling me that saving for an apartment would take a long time and that prices were only going up. As the years passed, it was time to think about having a child, but not to move him into a rented apartment that could be taken away at any moment.
I immediately understood what he was getting at, but I didn't let it show. I told him that he and his wife could move in with me and give me their savings, because I wouldn't let them go to waste on nonsense. In a few years, they would save up for a mortgage and then they could have children. They would only be thirty then, which is not an age these days.
Then my son directly said that he would prefer to solve the situation by selling my apartment and dividing the money, from which they would have plenty to buy a smaller place. I refused, which resulted in a row between Michał and Wanda. My daughter-in-law's love for my son disappeared as if by a wave of her hand. She left, announcing an imminent divorce, and Michał blamed me for the collapse of his marriage.
I don't feel guilty about this situation at all, especially since I warned my son about this fortune hunter from the beginning…
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