Hey Mummies a little long , but left me in tears.. Hahaha Me Bo liao huh!
> WHAT GRUDGES CAN DO....
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> This is for all the single, married, divorced, widowed individuals, who
> take life for granted. Please I BEG YOU, read this story until the end, it
> is such an opener. You never Know…………………….!
>
> Just two years after our marriage, hubby brought up the idea of asking
> Mother to move from the rural hometown and spend her remaining years with
> us. Hubby's father passed away while he was still very young.
> Mother endured much hardship and struggled all on her own to provide for
> him, see him through to a university degree. You could say that she
> suffered a great deal and did everything you could expect of a woman to
> bring hubby to where he is today. I immediately agreed and started packing
> the spare room, which has a balcony facing the South to let her enjoy the
> sunshine and plant greenery. Hubby stood in the bright room, and suddenly
> just picked me up and started spinning round and round. As I begged him to
> put me down, he said: "Lets go fetch mother." Hubby is tall and big sized
> and I love to test on his chest and enjoy the feeling that he could pick
> me up at any moment put the tiny me into his pockets.
> Whenever we have an argument and both refuses to back down, he would pick
> me up and spin me over his head continuously until I surrender and beg for
> mercy. I became addicted to this kind of panic-joy feeling.
>
> Mother brought along her countryside habits and lifestyle with her.
> For example; I am so used to buying flowers to decorate the living room,
> she could not stand it and would comment: "I do not know how you young
> people spend your money, why do you buy flowers for? You also can't eat
> flowers!" I smiled and said: "Mum, with flowers in the house, our mood
> will also become better." Mother continues to grumble away, and hubby
> smiled: "Mum, this is a city-people' s habit; slowly you will get use to
> it."
>
> Mother stopped saying anything. But every time thereafter, whenever came
> home with flowers, she would ask me how much it costs. I told her and she
> would shake her head and express displeasure. Sometimes, when I come home
> with lots of shopping bags, she would ask each and every item how much
> they cost, I would tell her honestly and she would get even more upset
> about it. Hubby playfully pinched my nose and said: "You little fool, just
> don't tell her the full price of everything would solve it."
>
> There begins the friction to our otherwise happy lifestyle.
>
> Mother hates it most when hubby wakes up early to prepare the breakfast.
> In your view, how could the man of the house cook for the wife? At the
> breakfast table, mother facial expression is always like the dark clouds
> before a thunderstorm and I would pretend not to notice. She would use her
> chopsticks and make a lot of noise with it as her silent protest.
>
> As I am a dance teacher in the Children's Palace and am exhausted from
> along day of dancing around, I do not wish to give up the luxury of that
> additional few minutes in the comfort of my bed and hence I turned a deaf
> ear to all the protest mother makes. From time to time, mother would help
> out with some housework, but soon her help created additional work for me.
> For example: she would keep all kinds of plastic bags accumulating them so
> that she sell them later on, and resulted in our house being filled with
> all the trash bags; she would scrimp on dish washing detergent when
> helping to wash the dishes and so as not to hurt her feelings, I would
> quietly wash them again.
>
> One day, late at night, mother saw me quietly washing the dishes, and
> "Bam" she slams her bedroom door and cried very loudly in her room. Hubby
> was placed in a difficult position, and after that, he did not speak to me
> for that entire night. I pretended to be a spoilt child, tried acting
> cute, but he totally ignored me.... I got mad and asked him:
>
> "What did I do wrong?" Hubby stared at me and said: "Can't you just give
> in to her once? We couldn't possibly die eating from a bowl however
> unclean it is, right?" After that incident, for a long period of time,
> mother did not speak to me and you can feel that there is a very awkward
> feeling hanging in the house. During that period of cold war, hubby was
> caught in dilemma as to who to please.
>
> In order to stop her son from having to prepare breakfast, mother took on
> the "all important" task of preparing breakfast without any prompting. At
> the breakfast table, mother would look at hubby happily eating his
> breakfast and cast that reprimanding stare at me for having failed to
> perform my duty as a wife. To avoid the embarrassing breakfast situation,
> I resorted to buying my own breakfast on my way to work. That night, while
> in bed, hubby was a little upset and asked me: "LD, is it because you
> think that mum's cooking is not clean that's why you chose not to eat at
> home?" He then turned his back on me and left me alone in tears as feeling
> of unfairness overwhelmed me. After some time, hubby sighed: "LD, just for
> me, can you have breakfast at home?" I am left with no choice but to
> return to the breakfast table.
>
> The next morning, I was having porridge prepared by mother and I felt a
> sudden churn in my stomach and everything inside seem to be rushing up my
> throat. I tried to suppress the urge to throw up but I could not. I threw
> down the bowl, rushed into the washroom, and vomited everything out. Just
> as I was catching my breath, I saw mother crying and grumbling very loudly
> in her dialect, hubby was standing at the washroom doorway staring at me
> with fire burning in his eyes.. I opened my mouth but no words came out of
> it, I really did not mean it.
>
> We had our very first big fight that day; mother took a look at us, then
> stood up and slowly made her way out of the house. Hubby gave me a final
> stare in the eye and followed mother down the stairs. For three days,
> hubby did not return home, not even a phone call. I was so furious, since
> mother arrived; I had been trying my best and putting up with her, what
> else do you want me to do? For no reason, I keep having the feeling to
> throw up and I simply have no appetite for food, coupled with all the
> events happening at home, I was at then low point in my life.
>
> Finally, a colleague said: "LD, you look terrible; you should go and see a
> doctor." The doctor confirmed that I am pregnant.
>
> Now it became clear to me why I threw up that fateful morning, a sense of
> sadness floated through that otherwise happy news. Why didn't hubby, and
> mother who had been through this before, thought of the possibility of
> this being the reason that day? At the hospital entrance, I saw my hubby
> standing there. It had only been three days, but he looked haggard. I had
> wanted to turn and leave, but one look at him and my heart soften, I
> couldn't resist and called out to him. He followed my voice and finally
> found me but he pretended that he doesn't know me; he has that disgusted
> look in his eyes that cut right through my heart. I told myself not to
> look at him anymore, and hail a cab. At that moment, I have such a strong
> urge inside me to shout to my hubby: "Darling, I am having your baby!" and
> have him lift me up and spin me around in circles of joy. What I wanted
> didn't happen and as I sat in the cab, my tears started rolling down.
>
>
> Why? Why our love couldn't even withstand the test of one fight?
>
> Back home, I lay on the bed thinking about my hubby, and the disgusted
> look in his eyes. I cried and wet the corner of the blanket. That night,
> sound of the drawers opening woke me up. I switched on the lights and I
> saw hubby with tears rolling down his face. He was removing the money. I
> stared at him in silence; he ignored me, took the bank deposit book and
> some money and left the house. Maybe he really intends to leave me for
> good.. What a rational man, so clear-cut in love and money matters. I gave
> a few dried laugh and tears starting streaming down again. The next day, I
> did not go to work. I wanted to clear this out and have a good talk with
> hubby. I reached his office and his secretary gave me a weird look and
> said: "Mr. Tan's mother had a traffic accident and is now in the
> hospital."
>
> I stood there in shock. I rushed to the hospital and by the time I found
> hubby, mother had already passed away. Hubby did not look at me, his face
> was expressionless. I looked at mother's pale white and thin face and I
> couldn't control the tears in my eyes. My god, how could this happen?
>
>
> Throughout the funeral, hubby did not say a single word to me, with only
> the occasional disgusted stare at me. I only managed to find out brief
> facts about the accident from other people. That day, after mother left
> the house, she walked in dazed toward the bus stop, apparently intending
> to go back to her old house back in the countryside. As hubby ran after
> her, she tried to walk faster and as she tried to cross the street, a
> public bus came and hit her... I finally understood how much hubby must
> hate me, if I had not thrown up that morning, if we had not quarrelled,
> if....In his heart, I am indirectly the killer of his mother..
>
> Hubby moved into mother's room and came home every night with a strong
> liquor smell on him. And me, I am buried under the guilt and self-pity and
> could hardly breathe. I wanted to explain to him, tell him that we are
> going to have our baby soon, but each time, I saw the dead look in his
> eyes, all the words I have at the brink of my mouth just fell back in. I
> had rather he hit me real hard or give me a big and thorough scolding
> though none of these events happening had been my fault at all. Many days
> of suffocating silence went by and as the days went by, hubby came home
> later and later. The deadlock between us continues, we were living
> together like strangers who don't know each other. I am like the dead knot
> in his heart.
>
> One day, I passed by a western restaurant, looking into the glass window,
> I saw hubby and a girl sitting facing each other and he very lightly
> brushed her hair for her, I understood what it meant. After recovering
> from that moment of shock, I entered the restaurant, stood in front of my
> hubby and stared hard at him, not a tear in my eyes. I have nothing to say
> to him, and there is no need to say anything. The girl looked at me, looks
> at hubby, stands up and wanted to go, hubby stretched out his hand and
> stopped her. He stared back at me, challenging me. I can only hear my slow
> heart beat, beating, one by one as if at the brink of death. I eventually
> backed down, if I had stood that any longer, I will collapse together with
> the baby inside me.. That night, he did not come home; he had chosen to
> use that as a way to indicate to me:
>
>
> Following mother's death so did our love for each other...
>
> He did not come home anymore after that. Sometimes, when I returned home
> from work, I can tell that the cupboard had been touched - he had returned
> to take some of his stuff. I no longer wish to call him; the initial
> desire to explain everything to him vanished. I lived alone; I go for my
> medical checkups alone, my heart breaks again and again every time I see a
> guy carefully helping his wife through the physical examination. My office
> colleagues hinted to me to consider aborting the baby, I told them No, I
> will not.. I insisted on having to this baby, perhaps it is my way of
> repaying mother for causing her death. One day, I came home and I saw
> hubby sitting in the living room. The whole house was filled with
> cigarette smoke. On the coffee table, there was this piece of paper. I
> know what it is all about without even looking at it. In the two months
> plus of living alone, I have gradually learned to find peace within
> myself. I looked at him, removed my hat and said: "You wait a while, I
> will sign." He looked at me, mixed feelings in his eyes, just like mine.
>
> As I hang up my coat, I keep repeating to myself "You cannot cry, you
> cannot cry..." my eyes hurt terribly, but I refused to let tears come out
> from there.
>
>
> After I hung up my coat, hubby's eyes stared fixed at my bulging tummy. I
> smiled, walked over to the coffee table and pulled the paper towards me.
> Without even looking at what it says, I signed my name on it and pushed
> the paper to him. "LD, are you pregnant?" Since mother's accident, this is
> the first time he spoke to me. I could not control my tears any further
> and they fell like raindrops. I said: "Yes, but its ok, you can leave
> now." He did not go, in the dark, we sat, facing each other. Hubby slowly
> moved over me, his tears wet the blanket. In my heart, everything seems so
> far away, so far that even if I sprint, I could never reach them. I cannot
> remember how many times he repeated "sorry" to me. I had originally
> thought that I would forgive him, but now I can't. In the western
> restaurant, in front of that girl, that cold look in his eyes, I will
> never forget, ever.
>
>
>
> We have drawn such deep scars in each other's heart. For me, it's
> unintentional; for him, totally intentional. I had been waiting for this
> moment of reconciliation, but I realized now, what had gone past is gone
> forever and could not repeated.
>
> Other than the thought of the baby inside me that would bring some warmth
> to my heart, I am totally cold towards him, I no longer eat anything he
> buys for me, I don't take any presents from him and I stopped talking to
> him..
>
>
>
> From the moment I signed on that piece of paper, marriage and love had
> vanished from my heart. Sometimes, hubby will try to come into the
> bedroom, but when he walks in, I will walk out to the living room.
>
>
> He had no choice but to sleep in mother's room. At night, from his room, I
> can hear light sounds of groaning, I kept quiet. This used to be his
> trick; last time, whenever I ignore him, he would fake illness and I will
> surrender and find out what is wrong with him, he would then grab me and
> laugh. He has forgotten that last time I cared for him and am concerned
> because there was love, but now, what is there between us?
>
>
> Hubby's groaning came on and off continuing but I continuously ignored
> him.
>
> Almost everyday, he would buy something for the baby, infant products,
> children products and books that kids like to read. Bags and bags of it
> stacked inside his room till it is full. I know he is trying to use this
> to reach out to me, but I am no longer moved by his actions. He has no
> choice but to lock himself in his room and I can hear his typing away on
> his computer keyboard, maybe he is now addicted to web surfing but none of
> that matters to me anymore. It was sometime towards the end of spring in
> the following year, one late night, I screamed because of a sudden stomach
> pain, hubby came rushing into the room, its like he did not change and
> sleep, and had been waiting for this moment. He carried me and ran down
> the stairs, stopped a car, holding my hand very tightly and kept wiping
> the sweat off my brow, throughout the journey to the hospital. Once we
> reached the hospital, he carried me and hurried into the delivery suite.
> Lying on the back of his skinny but warmth body, a thought crossed my
> mind: In my lifetime, who else would love me as much as he did?
>
> He held the delivery suite door opened and watch me go in; his warm eyes
> caused me to manage a smile at him despite my contraction pain. Coming out
> of the delivery room, hubby looked at our son and me, eyes tear with joy
> and he kept smiling. I reached out and touched his hand. Hubby looked at
> me, smiling and then he slowly collapsed onto the floor. I cried out for
> him in pain... He smiled, but without opening that tired eyes of his... I
> had thought that I would never shed any tear for him, but the truth is, I
> have never felt a deeper pain cutting through my body at that moment.
>
>
> Doctor said that by the time hubby discovered he had liver cancer, it was
> already in terminal stage and it was a miracle that he managed to last
> this long. I asked the doctor when he first discovered he had cancer.
> Doctor said about 5 months ago and consoled me saying: "Prepare for his
> funeral."
>
> I disregarded the nurse's objection and rushed home, I went into his room
> and checked his computer, and a suffocating pain hits me. Hubby's cancer
> was discovered 5 months ago, his groaning was real, and I had thought
> that... the computer showed over 200 thousand words he wrote for our son:
> "Son, just for you, I have persisted, to be able to take a look at you
> before I fall, is my biggest wish now... I know that in your life, you
> will have many happiness and maybe some setbacks, if only I can accompany
> you throughout that journey, how nice would it be. But daddy now no longer
> has that chance. Daddy has written inside here all the possible
> difficulties and problems you may encounter during your lifetime, when you
> meet with these problems, you can refer to daddy's suggestion.. ..
>
> Son, after writing these 200 thousand words, I feel as if I have
> accompanied you through life journey. To be honest, daddy is very happy.
> Do love your mother, she has suffered, she is the one who loves you most
> and also the one who loves me most..."
>
>
> From play school to primary school, to secondary, university, to work and
> even in dealing with questions of love, everything big and small was
> written there.
>
> Hubby has also written a letter for me:
>
> "My dear, to marry you is my biggest happiness, forgive me for the pain I
> have caused you, forgive me for not telling you my illness, because I want
> to see you be in a joyful mood waiting for the arrival of our baby...My
> dear, if you cried, it means that you have forgiven me and I would smile,
> thank you for loving me...These presents, I'm afraid I cannot give them to
> our son personally, could you help me to give some of them to him every
> year, the dates on what to give when are all written on the packaging... "
>
> Going back to the hospital, hubby is still in coma. I brought our son over
> and place him beside him. I said: "Open your eyes and smile, I want our
> son to remember being in the warmth of your arms..." He struggled to open
> his eyes and managed a weak smile. Our son still in his arms was happily
> waving his tiny hands in the air. I press the button on the camera and the
> sound of the shutter rang through the air as tears slowly rolled down my
> face.... A fatal misunderstanding and the person who loves me the most in
> this world is gone forever..."Cruel misunderstandings one after another
> disrupted the blissful footsteps to our family. Our originals intend of
> having Mother enjoy some quiet and peaceful moments in her remaining years
> with us went terribly wrong as destiny's secret is finally revealed at a
> price, every thing became too late."...... ...
This is a true story...