My mother-in-law has come to live with us because she thinks I’m maltreating her son. We’ve been married for five years. We’ve never quarrelled. We’ve never fought. We’ve never had a reason to invite my-in-laws into our marriage but for one funny reason, she has moved in with us because she believes her son is having it raw with me but can’t complain to them.

My husband is the quiet type. I’m not a loud person too but I’m louder than him. It doesn’t also mean I over-shadow him in any way. He’s not someone you can take his lenience to be his weakness. He’s soft-spoken but firm. He leads and I follow. We’ve been happier, happier than we anticipated we would be in marriage.

We visited my in-laws one day and my mother-law asked my husband, “Why are you growing lean? Are you not being fed well?”

We all took it as a joke but not my mother-law. We spent three days with them and on these days, every hour, she brought my husband something to eat. When we left for our house, she called every morning and day asking if my husband had eaten. “Send me a photo and let me see how you look. I wasn’t impressed at all the day I saw you.”

Weeks later, she was knocking on our door. Her mission is, “I’m coming to see what you give my son that he’s not growing well like his other siblings.”

We thought she was going to spend a few days but days rolled into weeks and weeks into months. This woman is still here with us, feeding my husband all sorts of food she thinks will make him grow bigger and better.

My husband is naturally tall and lanky but according to his mom, marriage makes men better looking. She uses her other sons as an example of a good marriage. My husband is angry. He has made several attempts to let her leave but this woman thinks I’m the one forcing him to push her away.

I don’t want trouble so I’ve told my husband to leave her alone. My father-in-law came around to take her away. She blamed me for reporting her to him. Any attempt to get her out of our house is blamed on me. That aside, she doesn’t relate very well with me, not even with our son. Her only focus is her son.

She cooks for him, wash for him, clean after him and would even love to tuck him in. I don’t want an in-law war so I pretend not to be bothered but it’s very hard to ignore this woman. She’s loud, confrontational and everything negative. She would wake up early, play gospel music with her phone and pray loudly against every hand fighting against her son.

All because my husband is not growing well.

She Calls My Mom A Witch Because Of This…

Yes, my husband is the last born so I try not to fault her but the way I see things, this woman will remain here until her son grows as big as an inflated balloon. It’s tiring but funny too so sometimes, I look at the fun side and shrug things off. One day I will miss this. Let the circus continue.

—Dufie

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