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The night before we obtained our marriage certificate, I asked him, "When did you start to develop feelings for me?"
He answered, "I don't remember."
"But, why me?"
"Why not you?"
"I'm very petty, and I get jealous very easily."
"So am I...
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Stop and Smell The Roses
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My mother-in-law is someone who possesses a great sense of humour; as Mr. F has commented on numerous occasions about the striking similarities between me and his mum, I asked him whether it was because both his mum and I liked to tease him.
In the past, Mr. F had a ‘rumoured girlfriend’ who happened to be the daughter of his neighbours. As my mother-in-law’s greatest joy was to make a fool out of her very own son, she would frequently ask Mr. F hilarious questions, such as “Why don’t you go play with my daughter-in-law?”
Initially, Mr. F would attempt to protest his unhappiness, “Don’t spread such nonsense.”
“Isn’t she my daughter-in-law? Or are you telling me you have someone else?”
“That’s not true!”
“Well, since you don’t have anyone else, she’s the only one left to be my daughter-in-law.”
“……”
Once, she brought Mr. F out to purchase some clothes for him. As she was deciding between two different colours, she commented, “I’ll just the blue one then, since my daughter-in-law ought to like the colour blue.”
Mr. F replied in exasperation, “Who’s your daughter-in-law? I didn’t know you had one.”
Subsequently, when I visited Mr. F’s home to play, my mother-in-law smelt the scent of a ‘secret affair’; from that day onwards, the annual parent-teacher meeting became the event that frightened Mr. F the most. When my mother-in-law saw my mum, she’d be extremely enthusiastic, “I’m going to go have a chat with my in-law.”
“Don’t!!!”
“Son, you’re not going to be able to get the girl at this rate.”
Even the perennially busy Mr. F’s father found some time to talk to Mr. F, “I’m not entirely opposed to you entering into a relationship at such a young age, but you ought to know where to draw the line.”
Mr. F wanted to howl in rage – I’m not in a relationship!! I know where to draw the line!! The one who doesn’t know how to draw the line is your wife, not me!!!
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When my mother-in-law and I discussed the topic of children, I said, “If I ever give birth to a child in the future, I don’t need him to be extremely rich or successful. I just hope that he’d be a happy person.”
My mother-in-law replied, “Yup. When I was pregnant with F, I thought the same way too. I didn’t wish for anything else, and had only one single wish.”
