I’m already so used to this situation, I’m not surprised about anything. Let me explain how it happened that my husband and I have 5 apartments, but we have to rent.
My husband’s parents have their own apartment and own 3 other apartments in different parts of the city, they rent them. They explain to us with a smile that they earned all this property themselves in their years, so they expect the same from us. Apparently, they do not understand that then they were given apartments from the state, and you could get housing by working in a factory, for example. And now it is very difficult to save for your own apartment while renting. My parents, to be honest, are not very different either. When my grandmother died, she rewrote her apartment to me, but then I was still a baby, so until I turned 18, my parents decided to rent my grandmother’s apartment. And now I’m an adult, and my parents really liked the fact that they get money every month, so they don’t let me live there.
For several years now, my husband and I have been renting. A one-bedroom small studio apartment that almost all of our money goes to. Sometimes there were times when we barely had enough for food. Now I’m on maternity leave, and I get pennies, because I don’t have a lot of experience, and my salary depends directly on it. My husband also tries to earn money, he works two jobs. But now in order to earn well you need an education, and he did not get it. Right after school he went into the army, and then I met him, so there was no time for university.
Very upsetting is the fact that my mom almost every week asks for help in choosing a new dress or blouse, and pregnant me at this time I do not have enough money for vitamins and fruit. She also keeps hinting to us that we need to be independent financially. She thinks that we should already help her and her father because they want to travel the world and so on.
Of course I am very uncomfortable with this attitude of my husband’s parents and mine. They have everything and more, but they just don’t want to help their children. I understand that they shouldn’t, but if there is an opportunity, then why not do it? I don’t understand this attitude towards my own children at all, so in the future I’m sure I’ll be giving my children everything and more.
My and my husband’s acquaintances and friends try to reassure us that we will one day inherit a lot of property. But to be honest, I am so offended that I don’t need anything from them anymore. At least let them take these apartments with them to the other world.
