What do parents do when their children need their parents' support to start their own businesses? When parents uproot their lives, their traditional expectations of old age and children's new age thinking how to grind? See day, I have to say is: when the cultural differences between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law this time, you will do?
The daughter-in-law and her son met while studying abroad. The two decided to start their own business right after graduation. The mother-in-law is a retired teacher. The mother-in-law was supportive of their decision, scrimping and scraping to make extra money and doing her best to finance them to buy a house, get married and have children abroad.
Mother-in-law, as an empty-nester, has a lot to worry about: her son hasn't sent back a penny over the years, and she has to subsidize his marriage and children, so her life savings have been emptied out; and since she's the only one left in the house, she has no life at all every day, and has to go to the neighbors for help with the broken pipes and lamps. At the end of this year, the son and daughter-in-law returned from abroad for the New Year, the family chatted about their respective hardships are full of emotion.
At their insistence, the mother-in-law sold her house as a start-up fund for her son, and then followed them to live abroad. When they arrived abroad, although there were many Chinese people in the neighborhood, they didn't know each other well and it was hard to make friends. In the past, my mother-in-law used to like square dancing, which is not even possible over here. And they have to go to the supermarket to buy food. Although she is highly educated, her English has long since deteriorated, and she can't survive on the few words she knows. She can't read the manuals for household appliances, she can't understand people's speeches, she can't watch TV, she can't ask for directions, and she's slowly developing a fear of going out.
While my mother-in-law is doing her best to support us, we need to be a little patient with her. She may not know enough about the world, and her culture may be different from ours, so it's even more important for us to be patient and explain things to her. If you want to blame and scold her, you can't solve the problem, so why don't you just sit down and discuss it calmly? What do you think