Woman Forces Her Husband to Choose between Her His Mom Who Went without Food to Feed Him

After years of his mother struggling to provide for him how she wanted to, a man was shocked when his wife told him that he had to stop spending so much time with his sick mother.

A man took to Reddit a year ago to get a problematic situation off his chest. The original poster (OP) talked about his relationship with his wife and mother and then about the two women’s relationship.

The OP’s parents were both orphans, and he never met his father, as he died two weeks before the OP was born. This situation left the man’s family down to him and his mother throughout his life.

Although the boy and his mother only had each other, he said his mother gave him a beautiful life, and he never wanted anything, even if that meant his mother had to struggle for everything they had.

While the OP was growing up, his mother went without food so that he would have enough and deprived herself of clothing so that he could have the best clothing her money could buy. His mother’s sacrifices led the OP to believe that his mother was a walking angel. The OP said, “I never lacked anything because my mother worked all her life to give me the life I have today and didn’t even have time for herself to start a new life again.”

The OP and his mother shared an excellent relationship, and he revealed that the only time she ever yelled at him was when he wanted to help her by getting a job when she was sick. He shared:

“… she was angry and told me it was not my job to take care of her and it was up to her to take care of me. She wanted me to get really good grades to get into the best universities. It’s the only way I can protect myself when she can’t anymore.”

When the OP went to university, his mother told him he should not get a job and instead focus solely on his studies. However, she did ask him to begin volunteering, so he was handy.

It was while the OP was volunteering that he met his wife. The OP’s wife was never close to her family but quickly built a strong bond with his mother, which the OP suspected might be because she was trying to develop the mother-daughter bond she never experienced in her own family.

The OP and his wife often joked that she loved his mother more than him. However, the cracks in the relationship soon began to show. When the OP had finished university and got his first job, he and his then-girlfriend moved in together.

After the couple had moved in together, the OP’s wife told him she was not comfortable with him calling his mother every day for ten to fifteen minutes. Eventually, they managed to move past this hurdle.

Two years after moving in together, the OP’s wife was upset when he bought his mother a house as she thought the OP should have thought about them and the life they were trying to build together first.

The OP’s wife then told his mother about the house, which was meant to be a surprise, leaving the OP furious. The couple still married and bought their own home after that debacle. Yet the OP shared the final straw.

The couple’s union had been going well until two months before the post when the OP’s mother fell ill. He suggested his mother move in with him and his wife, but his wife disagreed, leaving him with no other choice than to buy his mother an apartment near their home so he could help her.

While the OP usually arrived home at 6 p.m. every night, when his mother moved closer, he would go there after work and come home at 8 p.m. He also spent one to two hours with his mother on weekends, but the rest of his time was dedicated to his wife.

Although he did his best to accommodate his mother and wife, his wife soon told him that she felt he prioritized his mother too much and that he would need to choose between them.

The OP was hurt as he did everything he could to make his wife feel unique and paid all their bills while he told his wife to keep her money for herself. He said:

“I’m going to have a talk with her and put some very clear boundaries; if she doesn’t want to, well, we’re going to divorce.”

Many people commented, saying the man’s wife was being unreasonable and that if he deserted the woman who had given up her life to take care of him for his wife, he would always regret it.

While this OP’s mother ensured that her son never wanted for anything, another mother abandoned her children with their father, never to be seen or heard from again. Read the full story here.