How to deal with a stingy mother-in-law

When I was a child, I always liked to play next to my garden. It is where I have the most unforgettable memories and the best time of my life.

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When I was 6 months pregnant, my mother-in-law came to take care of me from my hometown. I was very grateful at first, because I really couldn’t cook and didn’t take care of the children. Little did I know that this would be the beginning of my sour pregnancy life.

Before my mother-in-law came, my husband and I ate out. We had a good mix of meat and vegetables. Anyway, my husband gained ten pounds. After my mother-in-law came, we started the fire ourselves, and I started my miserable life.

My mother-in-law’s cooking is really mediocre. This is not the most important thing. I don’t pick on it. The important thing is that it is difficult to buy meat to eat. (I really wanted to eat meat during that time) I thought my mother-in-law thought that the living allowance we gave her was too little, so I gave her another thousand dollars the next day. Not to mention eating meat every day, a meat dish at noon every day is not too much! But it would be good for her to eat meat twice a week. I asked my husband to talk to her. She was her mother anyway, so she wouldn’t be angry at anything she said. After that, there was meat at noon every day, but it was not enough for me to eat alone. The key was that I was embarrassed to eat alone, and I wanted everyone to eat.

I know my mother-in-law did not target me intentionally, because she did the same to her son. For example, my husband doesn’t like potatoes and pumpkins, so I told my mother-in-law not to buy these vegetables, but she still buys them often (it’s cheap). It’s good to have one dish (mostly vegetarian) that suits my husband’s appetite every day.

Later I thought, if you are reluctant to buy it, I can just buy it back. The next day I bought the ribs and my mother-in-law stewed them without saying anything. But I couldn't eat them anymore. She actually stewed them with dried beans and dried radishes brought from her hometown. It felt a bit sour. I had no choice but to eat whatever I wanted to eat outside. My mother-in-law is gentle to outsiders, but very strict to her family. She never talks about me, only about her son, but she likes to complain in front of me and talk about how they used to be. I just listen to it and brainwash her every day, asking her not to be so frugal. She still has money for food, but With little success.

I remember, after the baby was born, every time she fed the baby, she would come up and talk about how to feed the baby. She would say every day, I am really annoyed. Throughout confinement, I ate porridge and drank bone soup. Really, the big bone soup made me want to vomit, but she just said that big bones are cheap and nutritious. My husband said it many times, but she didn't change and still went her own way. Later, I got tired of talking about it, and my husband didn’t care. One time during dinner, my mother-in-law started complaining again. I looked at my husband. In fact, I wanted him to defend me, but he pretended not to notice. I am a person with a very good temper. I don’t care about my mother-in-law. She is not my mother, but if my husband can ignore me, then that’s not okay. I was so angry that I ignored him for several days. He actually didn't know why I was angry. I just had a full moon, and I got into an argument with him for some reason. At that time, I just had the thought that I wanted to go out. I wanted to leave this home, so I opened the door to go out, but my mother-in-law and husband wouldn't let me go. I remember I made a big fuss, threw a lot of things, and didn't care about anything. Tell me to either let me die or let me out. I was really depressed and couldn't express my feelings. Later, I went out, but my husband still refused to let me leave. We had a stalemate on the road until two o'clock in the evening before going back. This was probably the first time she saw me losing my temper so much, and my mother-in-law never complained in front of me again.

But her frugal temper still cannot be changed. When the baby was more than one year old, I bought beef and asked her to make soup for my son. When I came back from get off work, my mother-in-law said that my son didn’t eat beef and didn’t like to drink beef soup. I went to the kitchen and took a look. I didn’t know what to say. Beef stewed with dried cowpeas. I couldn’t describe the taste. I didn’t want to eat it if I didn’t talk about my son. Let me tell you, I'm not picky.

In the future, I will have time on weekends to make soup for my son, and I will buy more nutritional supplements and put them at home for my mother-in-law to feed her son every day.

My mother-in-law is actually not bad, but she really can’t change her problem of thrifting. When you buy the vegetables, she won’t eat them when we are not at home in order to save money. She also feeds the baby white porridge. . Now that the baby is still drinking milk, what should I do if I start eating in the future?

There is a kind of long-lasting love that will always love your garden