Translated…
I have two sons, my younger got married first, and, although my second daughter-in-law is very well-behaved and gentle, but she didn’t have a higher education degree, nor did she come with any dowry at all, it’d displeased me somewhat. And, my eldest’s girlfriend is very pleasing to me, because of her work in the U.S., she has a green card, and she has a suite as her dowry; she’d clearly stated, that after she married, she will be living with her in-laws, and, turn the rents she collected from her suite to her mother-in-law as an allowance.
In order to make her my daughter-in-law sooner, I’d given up my master’s bedroom, remodeled it, made it into a newlywed suite for them, replaced the furniture in there, even bought a brand new crib. I’d learned, that she was a light sleeper, and that it might deter her from marrying my son, I’d immediately asked my second daughter-in-law to take her child home, and, my younger son got angry over this, because back then, I’d asked to take care of their child myself. Later on, it was because my second daughter-in-law’s aunt said she wouldn’t mind helping out with their child, that my son and my daughter-in-law moved to the southern strip of the island, and, we and the in-laws got on bad terms.
It took a very long time, to finally get my eldest son’s wife to finally move in, but, not long thereafter, she’d used the excuse of she’s maladapted, to move back into the suite, I got really angered by her behaviors, but, because she’d promised that after she moved to the States and gave birth, she’ll invite me to move in with her, and so, I’d stopped feeling so angered. When my eldest daughter-in-law and my eldest son went to the States to prepare to have their baby, I’d immediately repainted the suite, but, very shortly after I’d rented out the suite, my eldest called, and said that he needed the money from the suite getting sold, and so, I’d sold it, and paid the money for breaching the contracts of the rental agreement I had.
I’d inquired again and again toward my eldest, when I needed to set out for the States, to help my daughter-in-law with her recovery phase after birth, until my grandson was born, my eldest told me, that his wife already had her parents over, and applied for their permanent residency statuses. Looking at my already packed up bags, I started feeling awful over my behaviors, and I’d felt even worse, for how I’d mistreated my younger daughter-in-law.
But, my younger daughter-in-law didn’t hold a grudge toward my previous bad behaviors, instead, she’d come back home to visit me a lot with my second son, and even invited me to move in with them, and she’d even wanted to help cover for the money I’d lost for breaching the rental contracts for the suite I’d bought for my eldest son and daughter-in-law. My second daughter-in-law’s actions made me ashamed and she moved me too, I’d immediately patched up the relationship with the in-laws, and helped put in the funding for my second daughter-in-law’s business ventures, and now, my in-laws and I had patched up our interactions, and everything is flowing along smoothly. It’s my two daughters-in-law who’d taught me a valuable lesson, “No matter how much money you have, it still can’t buy the relationships with families.”
And, because your second daughter-in-law paled by comparison, you felt that your second son had the shorter end of the stick in marriage, and, your eldest son’s wife had the flashy degrees, and looked well on the outside, and, so, you became discriminatory toward your two daughters-in-law, and, in the end, you’d PAID a price, but gladly, you’d learned that lesson the hard way.
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Life, the Obstacle Course 