It was my mother’s birthday. And she decided that celebrating without grandchildren would be much better. She explained it by the fact that they make noise and it irritates the main man of her life – her new husband. His word is now the law. We often had quarrels in our family. My mother’s fate was not particularly good, she was always lonely. I lived with her until I was sixteen. After graduating from school, I left and got married. Now at the age of thirty I have a husband and two children. My sister also lived with my mother for a short time: she left home a year after I left. And then, five years later, my father left my mother. She did not want to hear about new relationships after that for a long time. She just wanted my sister and me to give her grandchildren as soon as possible. And that’s exactly what happened. Now my mother has four grandchildren. And her love was equally enough for all of them. At first she took great pleasure in babysitting my twins, and then – my sister’s two children. Outside the city we have a rural house where my mother often rested from the bustle of the city. Soon she decided to move there.
Having sold the house in the city, she renovated the old farmhouse, arranged a large garden and implemented the idea of moving. A year ago we found out that she had a husband. They met while he was renting one of the neighbors’ houses in the village. Six months passed, and they began to live together. It would seem that we should rejoice at the happiness of the mother. But everything was much more complicated. Most of all, my sister and I were disturbed by the fact that he did not love our children, and always loaded our husbands with some affairs. My mother did not notice all this. She loved him and constantly justified him. Soon she began to think that we were making everything up. For her, Oleksiy was always right. Everything went so far that we stopped going to her often, and as a result, she stopped meeting with her grandchildren. Most often we talked on the phone.
Recently we were going to celebrate my mother’s birthday. It would seem that everything was as before, she invited us – her beloved children and grandchildren to her place. But it was not like that. She suddenly said that she did not want the children to get in the way and make noise. My husband is annoyed by all this. It is better to hire a nanny for a day than to bring them to their grandmother’s birthday party. This was such a shocking statement for us that my sister and I decided to refuse the trip altogether. As a result, we turned out to be ungrateful and ill-mannered children, from whom our mother did not expect such an insulting attitude. After these words I could not stand it, I expressed my opinion. “If you don’t want to see your grandchildren because of this old man, then you probably won’t want to meet us either,” I said, hanging up the phone. And that’s exactly what happened. She stopped communicating with us, explaining to everyone what ungrateful children we were, who had offended her mother’s feelings so much. The main thing is the peace of her beloved husband, who was able to separate the closest people – mother and daughters.
