I imagined that after marriage our real life would start. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/7a4644/620x0/1/0/2025/03/21/ttxwdhsdoqo1y1ydi5tbcsnaafgtnvcesgvpdwn.jpg" alt = "daughter -in -law and mother -in -law @pexels" styles = "background-color: rgba (128,129,124.1)" > < p > romantic mornings, co -& oacuteal evenings, the smell of coffee in our own kitchen and silence, which & oacute; rej will nobody will come < p > but someone & oacute; Every day, from the first week after the wedding.

< p > my mother -in -law.

< p > at the beginning I thought it was just & for a while &

< p > fell with dough, then with a handful of good advice, then with a vacuum cleaner and & hellip; stayed for the whole day.

< p > The next day came with shopping.

< p > then came with dinner.

< p > and then it did not leave.

< P >& Amp; MDASH; She just cares for — M & oacute; my husband, when my husband, when I was to suggest that we need space.

< p > — She always had it. Likes to be close.

< p > near ?

< p > no.

< p > she was everywhere.

< p > began to change things in my kitchen.

< p > allowed herself to throw my favorite cup, because & ampquo; was shabby & rdquo;.

< p > criticized the way & oacute; b, in which I cook, how I fold towels, how I wipe the floor.

< p > — I have already had children at her age and a house on the head.

< p > I heard it every day.

< p > m & oacute; ju husband ?

< p > Sit quiet.

< p > or laughed as if it were fun.

< p > — Oh, don't overdo it. Mom does nothing bad.

< p > until one day I entered the living room and saw him holding his hand and m & oacute; wi:

< p > — Son, she underestimates you. So young, and so cool. He doesn't understand you.

< p > I stood in the door and felt that I was cracking.

< p > It was no longer a house.

< p > It was a cage in which I lived with my husband and his mother.

< p > I didn't have a husband.

< p > I had a man who was afraid to set my mother boundaries.

< p > tonight packed the suitcase.

< p > my husband looked in disbelief.

< p > — It is because of her ?

< p > — NO. It's because of you.

< p > because it wasn't about mother -in -law.

< p > it was that he did not stand on my side.

< p > I wanted to be a wife.

< p > a I became a guest in my own home.

< p > I live alone today.

< p > maybe it is quieter.

< p > but in the end it's m & oacute; j house.

Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116