My friend’s mother stunned her whole family. She rented out her three-room apartment, added her pension and went to live in warm countries. They say that our pensioners can live there really well and carefree, not just exist.
– It’s so disgusting! – said the husband of a friend. – She is not young anymore, why does she need to travel all over the world? She just shames us!
– Why didn’t she think of you first?” shouted the mother-in-law.
– Once my mother hinted to me that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, – my friend said in a sobbing voice, – She means that since I am her daughter, I will also go on a binge and leave my country in my old age. All my relatives will also tell me that I disgrace them. My husband can’t stop arguing with me. We can not cope with the loan that we took for the car, it is overdue for two months, and my mother decided to make a life for herself, – her daughter cries, she is somehow sure that her mother should help her with everything, and forget about her interests and needs. My mother-in-law reminds me every day that we live with my husband in her apartment for free, and my mother rents her apartment to strangers.
For some reason, we have a stereotype that a retired woman no longer belongs to herself. She has no need to work anyway, so she can sit with grandchildren, cook and help around the house for free. And her housing is for children, and in general, why should she count on anything? Why should children count on their mother’s money instead of earning their own living and not living in the same apartment with their mother-in-law?
– My husband and I hoped that she would give us her apartment and move to the village, – the daughter mourns her hopeless dreams. Is it possible?
– Believe me, she will marry you, – I said sarcastically.
I immediately remember the story when my grandmother’s old friend returned her grandchildren to her children and “went into all sorts of trouble”. She moved and found her love. The whole family wanted to get her one-room apartment in the city center so much that they decided to declare her incapacitated through the court. But their plan failed. She still lives with her bald grandfather. They have a big house, but she does not want to invite her relatives. That’s how it is.
And my friend’s mother posts photos from different parts of the world almost every day, with the caption that life after retirement is just beginning! I even write her comments from time to time. I think she is right. Why should her relatives sit on her neck and dispose of her property? Is retirement age already a sentence? Let them learn to provide for themselves! They are the ones who are shameless!
Do you agree that age is not a reason to stop enjoying life to the fullest?
