The son-in-law does not want to take his mother-in-law to a new house, he is afraid that the house will smell like old age

A year ago, we moved from a provincial town to our house, which is located in a village. The history of our move from city to village lasted 5 years - that's how long we built a new house. Our family consists of three people, our son is a student. The eldest daughter and her family live separately in a neighboring town.

On the channel, we tell stories about our village life, reflect on things that are important to us.

Having left the city, we faced a considerable number of new tasks, which we solve with pleasure and we know that we are doing everything only for ourselves, and not for an apartment building!

Many people today dream of leaving the city and living closer to nature. But in order to decide on this, you need to provide yourself with conditions that are no worse and even better than in a city apartment.

Today I had a telephone conversation day. There were so many calls that I didn’t have time to do many of the planned things with conversations. Moreover, the conversation with my cousin just unsettled me. They live on the other side of the country, we see each other very rarely and I saw her husband once, at a wedding. My sister talks a little about him, very restrained. That is, as a person, her husband is completely unknown to me.

But in recent years, we constantly communicate, because they are also building a house, we consult with each other, we show our houses, equipment, decoration on Skype. And I got the impression that the brother-in-law is a little arrogant. A kind of know-it-all who is not interested in anyone's advice. Nevertheless, I can see that he uses our recommendations, although he does not admit it.

It makes no difference to me, I love my sister, we were in the same city at the same time at universities, students spent all the time together. She has a mother, whom I hardly know either. She did not come to us, my sister always stayed with dad, my uncle. Uncle died long ago, and her old mother lives alone in her apartment. The sister looks after her.

And today, with tears, my sister said that her husband refuses to accept my mother in a new home. He says that the room they have allocated for her on the 1st floor is needed for him as a workshop. And he doesn't want to move his aunt so that the house, as my sister said, “doesn't smell like an old woman”. And after that he also added that the mother would soon die, and the new house, thereby, would be ruined by the deceased. Let him die in his apartment.

But their house is out of town, it will be very inconvenient to go to my mother 30 kilometers away. Moreover, the old woman gave most of her pension to build a house and dreamed of living in nature in recent years. She was brought to the site, and she was busy in the beds, even felt more cheerful than in the four walls.

And now - such a turn. The sister bursts into tears. Of course, there is no question of any divorce and division of property, yet they have lived together for so many years, almost 30. She simply does not know how to convince her husband to act according to his conscience. When he told her all this, she was simply speechless from surprise and left for the city.

I was terrified too. She imagined how an old woman would feel, whose dreams would collapse at one moment. This, of course, will break her. And you won't wish such an end to anyone.

I think that if the brother-in-law does not change his mind, and his sister does not convince him, then they will not have any happiness in this house. It is even difficult to imagine a more terrible act. I told her about this, and she went to the station to have a difficult conversation.

I still have her crying in my ears and the words: "Mom doesn't smell at all, she still uses perfume and, in general, takes care of herself!"

Is that really the point? It's just that such unprecedented selfishness and ingratitude should not be allowed.

What a difficult thing is life.