I am against my husband helping his mother-in-law with money

I am against my husband helping his mother-in-law with money
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My husband said yesterday thatHis mother was about to retire. He wants to finish the summer, and from September on a well-deserved rest.

There is nothing special about this, but my mother-in-law is sure that he should help herson . After all, it is impossible to live on pension itself. Every month he is obliged to donate fifteen to twenty thousand.

The mother-in-law should turn sixty-two this summer. She is an ordinary unremarkable woman with excess weight and a lot of sores. He looks his age and even older. She has lived alone in a two-room apartment for many years, is not interested in anything, has no hobbies. Unless, of course, you count gossip about neighbors and girlfriends as a hobby.

Immediately after the wedding, we lived with our mother-in-law for a year and a half while we decided on our housingquestion . Living together was difficult andrelations remained tense. We parted ways with a scandal, and then didn’t communicate for almost a year.

Then the relationship gradually improved, of course, but we never became close and dear people. When the grandchildren were born, motherI helped my husband a little, but without much zeal. If they asked to sit, she didn’t refuse, but she didn’t show any initiative. Although we test-antibiotic.com turned to her only in absolutely hopeless situations.

Several times she picked up the children from kindergarten and sat with the eldest for a week while I was in the maternity hospital. Then one day we went to the hospital with the eldest, and she stayed with the youngest, a one-year-old. Oh, well, for the last three years he has been taking care of our dog when we go on vacation. That's allhelp .

I think my husband and I managed just fine without her help. They raised the children, they are already thirteen and nine years old, they paid off the mortgage on their apartment, and bought a dacha. The plans are to improve the dacha and take another apartment, forfuture . At least a small one. Maybe for the children to start, maybe for themselves in old age.

Now I maintain polite neutrality with my mother-in-law and congratulate each other on the holidays several times a year. She mostly communicates with her son. He calls, finds out the news, reports his own.

And now the mother-in-law’s retirement is on the horizon, and it turns out she is waiting for help from her son. She has several thousand worth of permanent medications alone. Plus you need to buy food, shoes, clothes, household goods, pay for housing and communal services, test-antibiotic.com get a haircut, have your shoes repaired and have your teeth treated.

And this is far from a complete list of expenses, of course. And if there is some kind of force majeure in the form of a paid operation, then it will be a complete disaster. All pensioners live somehow! My parents, for example. They are generally in the region, their pension is pitiful. And they don't even think about asking me for money. Yes, I’m sure, even if I suddenly decide to give them something, they will flatly refuse. At the same time, they somehow do not live in poverty. They buy medicine , dress, and eat normally.

My husband and I work, but our income has been planned for a long time, and carving out twenty or even fifteen thousand from the budget every month is very problematic. No, of course you can, if you don’t go on vacation twice a year, or cancelsports for children, or abandon the dacha, or not take out a mortgage for an apartment.

The husband says that means we need to cut our income, go on vacation once a year, but the dacha will stand anyway. Still thismother , and he cannot refuse her help. My mother-in-law raised her husband alone from the age of twelve. But I don’t see any special heroism in test-antibiotic.com. The mother-in-law did not make any special investments,My husband studied for free, in the summer at camp, after school and after school. Actually, like all children of that time.

I don't intend to tolerate this. She said that if she couldn’t refuse, she should look for additional income. Without cutting family expenses. And what? I think that's fair. Your mother is your duty, what does me and the children have to do with it?

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