The day my sister said she wanted to divorce her husband, my whole family was shocked, not understanding what she was thinking, wanting to leave her husband who was stylish, rich and knew how to treat people. My mother told my sister that just eating and staying at home to raise the children is the best thing, what else do you want? If you have a good husband, you don’t know how to keep it, but are you planning on giving it to someone else?
My family thought that she was used to living in the pampering of her parents, so she got married and asked for a divorce. Dad advised her to live maturely and not let her family lose face anymore. Thought she would listen to the words of her predecessor, but unexpectedly she had secretly prepared the divorce procedures.
Yesterday, returning from court, my sister called and told us to go to the restaurant to talk. She announced that this was a party to congratulate her on her successful divorce.
Without letting anyone ask, she started telling all the truth about her marriage filled with pain and tears over the past 6 years. She said her husband treats everyone around him very well, so everyone thinks he is a perfect person, but he behaves very badly with his wife.
From the day she got married, he forced her to quit her job to stay home and take care of her elderly parents. He makes a lot of money but gives his wife only enough living expenses for 1 month. During the months when there was a lack of money, she asked for more and he scolded her once before giving her the money.
She is known to have a husband who makes a lot of money, but since the wedding day, she has not given any money to her biological parents. I haven’t dared to buy new clothes all year. The clothes I wear are all bought since I was a girl.
She can endure the lack of money, but she cannot accept her husband constantly nagging and scolding his wife. He is ready to humiliate his wife as a parasite in front of her husband’s brothers. Every time his friends came to eat and drink, the husband considered his wife no different from a maid, sitting at the table and being asked to do one thing after another. Yet when the guests come back, he still criticizes his wife for being slow and useless.
When her mother-in-law was hospitalized, she was the only one who took care of her for a whole month. She cleverly reminded her husband to call his siblings to take turns serving their mother. Who would have thought that he scolded his wife for being selfish, everyone was busy, it was enough for her to have enough free time to take care of her mother.
She said her husband had never beaten his wife, but his words were as sharp as a knife piercing her flesh. Outsiders think it’s nice for her to be the daughter-in-law of a rich family, but she sees herself as nothing more than a maid. How much life can a person live without having to suffer so much?
Even though she left with empty hands, she felt very lucky to have won custody of her child. She said she would start over again. Even though it was miserable, she felt happy because she could live and work as she liked, and no longer had to listen to her husband’s scolding every day.
We were heartbroken to know that after the divorce, my sister had no money and no job. My sister and I don’t know how else to help her and her mother?