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A woman who was "driven to death" by her mother-in-law and husband

What is the value of women?

By Ma Jia La ShiPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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A woman who was "driven to death" by her mother-in-law and husband
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Today, I accompanied a friend to the hospital to visit a young woman who took sleeping pills and died.

When I learned the reason why she swallowed sleeping pills and died, I felt gloomy and bitter in my heart.

She married into a very patriarchal family, and her husband listened to his mother in everything. She and her husband have been married for eight years, and now they have had three children in a row, all three of them daughters.

The arrival of these three children has caused her to suffer a great deal of disdain and aggravation in her in-laws' home, and her mother-in-law is even more cynical in her neighbors, spreading all her anger and resentment toward her daughter-in-law, Xiaofang, whose husband seems to have acquiesced to her mother's practices, never stopping her from speaking coldly and harshly to Xiaofang.

With the birth of one daughter after another, the mother-in-law is not moving at home, scolding Xiaofang's stomach does not compete, and the father-in-law is also often sighing at home.

These are not enough, the mother-in-law saw Xiao Fang gave birth to a daughter, is not willing to serve Xiao Fang month, but also said "a girl, which is so valuable".

The child sometimes fell and cried on the floor, and her mother-in-law, who had nothing else to do, would pretend not to see and simply ignore her and would say sarcastic words, every word like a knife in Fang's heart.

The mother-in-law didn't care about Fang's health, and after the birth, she kept urging Fang to get pregnant quickly, as she was waiting to hold her grandchildren.

This time, Fang is pregnant with the fourth child, in four months to do a check-up, when the mother-in-law learned that the baby is a girl, Fang is even more verbally abusive, saying in the heat of the moment, even picking up the cup of tea at hand, and threw it at Fang, the cup of tea broke under Fang's feet, while her husband sat on the sofa to play with the phone, did not say a word, as if nothing had happened.

Fang ran back to her bedroom crying in pain, crying out in anguish.

Her mother-in-law insisted on taking Fang to have an abortion this time and said

"It's not enough to have three money-losing babies, what's the point of having a fourth one?"

Every word and phrase of her mother-in-law deeply hurt Xiao Fang's heart, which was already full of holes and broken.

In the face of her mother-in-law's intensified abuse and her husband's uselessness, silence and lack of concern for herself, and her indifferent attitude, Xiaofang had the idea of lightheartedness.

Therefore, Xiaofang swallowed sleeping pills in a fit of anger, disregarding the four months of life in her belly ......

Fortunately, her husband found her in time to the hospital, after the doctor's resuscitation, Fang out of life-threatening.

The friend was even more outspoken and said to the tearful Xiao Fang

"This time out of the hospital, divorce it! The three-legged toad is not easy to find, there are many two-legged men"

I saw that Fang's emotions are still very unstable, so I gently pulled my friend's sleeve and said to her

"Let's say goodbye first, let Fang take a good rest"

When we comforted Fang and were about to go back, we ran into her mother-in-law, who came up and asked us both a question.

"How many children do you have? Boys or girls?"

At this time, she is not worried about her daughter-in-law's life but also asked a question that has nothing to do with it, such a mother-in-law is also no one.

After walking out of the hospital, I was heavy-hearted, looking at Xiaofang's pale face, breathlessly lying on the hospital bed, feeling the surrounding air pressure lowering, I tried to adjust my breathing, and took a few deep breaths.

The mind haunted Fang's poor and helpless appearance, I sympathize with Fang, but helpless for their love can not help.

The way Fang's in-laws acted made me unable to understand, whether was Fang just a tool that her family had married to carry on their legacy.

As a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are both women, she is also through the hard work of October pregnancy and the pain and danger of childbirth, why can not care for her daughter-in-law?

It is not about the gender of the child, the pain and danger are the same, not a girl will not have to go through the hard work and danger of childbirth in October, the burden is the same.

The mother-in-law, who is a past member of the family, is not at all concerned about her daughter-in-law Xiaofang, but simply wants her to have a boy.

The most desperate thing for Fang is not only her mother-in-law's attitude towards her but her foolish husband who obeys his mother in everything.

As a husband, he only obeyed his mother, not to mention the suffering of Fang at home the eyes, such a marriage will only hit Fang all over the body, the body is incomplete, more to bear the double torture of mental and physical.

It is said that "it is better to demolish ten temples than to destroy a family", but in my opinion, Xiaofang such a warm marriage does not want, the sooner she can break free from that home, the sooner a day out of the sea of suffering ......

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