Headline debut challenge Wen Kapok.
At 23:45 in the middle of the night, 39-year-old Su Qing (pseudonym) posted a circle of friends: "Returning to my mother-in-law's house for the New Year, spending 110,000 yuan in 7 days, it is really like a catastrophe for the New Year, vain mother-in-law, foolish husband, end my 13-year marriage, and I will divorce after the year!" The picture of this circle of friends is three shopping lists, two IOUs, and a divorce agreement.
Su Qing recalled the experience of returning to her mother-in-law's house. Mother-in-law lives in the countryside, and the Chinese New Year is a time for her to show off her face, treating her son as an ornament, and asking Su Qing's family of three to go back to her mother-in-law's house for the New Year every year for 13 years. This New Year's expenditure reached 110,000 yuan, including various requirements from her mother-in-law, which put Su Qing in financial difficulties. Whether family affection is important or the issue of face overrides everything has become the focus of Su Qing's thinking.
On the nineteenth day of the lunar month, my mother-in-law called ** again and said: "What you want to eat, you can buy what you want to come back, I am the least particular about eating, I only drink cornmeal porridge every day, just eat steamed buns, and ah, the New Year is the time of exchange of gifts, you have to plan to go to relatives with things." This call asked Su Qing to prepare more things, which made her feel anxious. At the same time, the article points out the etiquette and customs during the Chinese New Year, so that readers have a more intuitive feeling of the expectations and pressures of the mother-in-law.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Su Qing's sister-in-law brought the family to visit the New Year, and after lunch, the sister-in-law asked Su Qing's husband for a business loan. This scene reveals the financial difficulties in the family, not only the excessive demands of the mother-in-law, but also the relatives who have increased the burden on Su Qing's family. The article shows the impact of money problems on relationships in the family through the sister-in-law's entrepreneurial loan, and triggers readers' thinking about the trade-off between family affection and money.
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the husband's uncle came to the house crying and crying, saying that his son had been drinking every day during the Chinese New Year, and that he had been driving after drinking the day before yesterday and had a car accident. This incident pointed the finger at Su Qing's husband, and the mother-in-law once again came forward to ask for help. This episode triggers a strong resistance from Su Qing, highlighting the importance of money in the eyes of her mother-in-law, as well as her mother-in-law's blind trust in her son.
When her husband went to run errands, Su Qing went to her sister-in-law's house and her cousin's house, and asked for IOUs of 50,000 yuan and 20,000 yuan lent by her husband respectively, and she was also ready for divorce. Su Qing faced the family crisis, acted bravely, got back two IOUs, and prepared the confidence for the divorce. This passage reveals Su Qing's strength and unyielding to her mother-in-law's ignorant behavior.
After listening to Su Qing's story, it was really infuriating. At the end of the article, the reader's emotional resonance point highlights Su Qing's persistence and resistance in the face of family difficulties. Finally, he put forward a point of view that parents' vanity and the concept of face should not be a source of pressure for children, and called on the elderly not to let their own face crush their children.
Today's Topic: Do you think Su Qing should divorce her husband because of her mother-in-law's behavior? You are welcome to share your opinions! Through this question, the reader is guided to think about the family dilemma and money problems mentioned in the article, and the reader's comment interaction is stimulated.