10 years ago, I got married to my wife through an arranged marriage. Before the marriage, we clearly informed our in-laws that we didn’t have any property. They told us that my wife’s elder brother was working in an IT company and that the younger brother had a government job and was waiting for his joining date which was a lie.
Her younger brother doesn’t do any work and lives off the money earned by other family members. My father-in-law is just a puppet, and no one values him. Before marriage, I had informed my wife that my sister would need to stay with us due to some personal reasons. She agreed. In the beginning, everything was going well.
Later, my wife started degrading my sister’s achievements in her career and used to find faults with everything she did. To avoid conflicts, my sister decided to move into a hostel, but my wife forcefully stopped her and asked her to stay with us. Whenever my mother-in-law visited, she used to create differences between my sister and my wife.
My wife started insulting my parents, saying that my mother is a housewife and has not done anything meaningful in her life. She would say, “Your parents don’t love you because they didn’t buy any property for you.” Whenever they got the chance, my wife’s family would insult us. My parents and sister never wanted to destroy our marriage.
They never interfered in our decisions and, in fact, supported us financially, physically, and emotionally. When my wife was pregnant, my mother stayed with us and took care of her from the day we found out until the day she delivered. We took care of my wife like a child from the day we got married. During this time, my father lived alone in our hometown.
After my wife delivered a baby boy, my sister and my wife’s brother got married. Her brother married a girl from one of the wealthiest families in his town. Later, my wife started talking badly about her sister-in-law, saying she was of no use, couldn’t earn, didn’t have a degree, and that her parents weren’t supporting her brother financially.
When her brother’s wife delivered a baby girl, my wife’s whole family was sad because it was a girl. After delivery, my wife was unwilling to return, citing different reasons, but I used to visit frequently because of my child. In the end, my mother-in-law created differences between her children and their partners. She separated me from my wife and also separated her son from his wife.
My wife and her brother blindly believe that their mother would never do anything wrong and that everything she does is for their future. We tried to resolve conflicts through my wife’s relatives, but her family cut off ties with those relatives who tried to help.
Throughout this journey, what I observed is that the entire family hates women and claims that women break families. My mother-in-law separated both her children from their spouses. Later, we came to know that she is suffering from cancer, but even now, she is not ready to resolve the conflicts between us.
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