Love Your Inlaws Like Your Parents

A friend of mine called me yesterday and her voice was tinkling like a bell and sounded very joyous, curious I was asked her the reason for her happiness, but was annoyed knowing the reason.


My friend told me that finally she had left the wretched old creature in the old age home and that the services are free and both she and her husband doesn’t have to pay anything, everything was done with just paper formalities and signatures. Yes u guessed it right she was referring to her mother in law.

I wondered how could a person do like this, and worst of all how did the son agree to this? Did he not know the importance of his mother? My friend’s mother in law was a widow who had lost her husband at a very young age and lived all her life just for her son, who today had left her alone to suffer in an old age. My friend told several reasons why they have left her mother in law in an old age home:

She was always watching television and not listening to anyone.

She went out for long walks and slept on time.

She always came to kitchen to cut vegetables and interfere in her my friend’s work though my friend claims she knew everything.

I felt all the reasons were silly and stupid if an old person is watching television I do not see anything wrong in that, same thing applies to long walks and sleep. When mother in law wants to help in kitchen work, how can I misunderstand that and think she is interfering. No matter whatever reasons are I am one who is always against joining parents and in laws to old age homes.

Trying to come out of this shock I read a paper clipping where a son and daughter in law had cheated the boy’s parents and taken property and money and left them in an old age home and told the old people were rag pickers and were mad!!

I was aghast hearing and reading such things. I had to pull myself to terms before I could realize what was happening around me, I am sure as kids we must have irritated our parents and annoyed them a lot, but they did not lose hope on us and did not live us anywhere alone, they punished us for our own good and loved us all the more every second.

I dare say that all daughters in laws are bad, yes there are tolerant and lovable ones aswell and I am not talking about them. I have heard many people say ‘oh that old lady deserves it and she was not in a good relationship with her daughter in law’, blah blah blah……. Point agreed I know that there are bad mother in laws across the world but my point is not everyone are bad, they are some very sweet mother in laws also. When a person is old and unable to take care of himself/herself all that they need is love care and affection, not loneliness and revenge.

I really do not understand few girls who do not care about their mother in law, they always try to maintain distance with them and never shower true affection and never behave like human beings aswell. I believe that if I am good to someone they will be definitely be good to me, and if they are not surely they will mend their ways, I am no one to teach them a lesson. The day I started addressing my mother in law as mom I got another mom who showers immense affection on me and cares for me always. I am just myself with my mother in law.

Please say no to old age homes, off late there is a steady increase in old age homes because of some lazy and sick people who do not want to take care of their parents and in laws. Love your parents, and when I say parents it applies to in laws aswell. Give them your never ending and true love and see the happiness you get.

Trust me it works