The connectedness, the love that's shared between the two sisters-in-law, who were originally best of friends, before one married the older brother, is truly, rare, and amazing for sure! Translated…
As I'd gone home that day to visit my ninety-three-year-old mother, before I got to the front door, I'd heard her loud on the phones, and, it was no surprise to me, that she was calling up my younger aunt who's ten years her junior.
back when they were younger, as best friends...photo from online
And, we'd all heard, the bad interactions between the sisters-in-law a lot, to the point of the relationship worsening to the two stop contact forever. But mom and my aunt's connection was, so very, deep, they'd interacted like old friends, sisters too, and that made those who knew them awe.
Actually, mom and pops grew up in the same village, they were neighbors too, before marrying, mom was a childhood playmate of my aunts. She'd told me, that when my aunt was younger, she'd loved prettying herself up, and would go to her bedroom to get her makeup; when mom bought new clothes, and, if my aunt fitted in them, she would, always give the new clothes to her too, the accessories too, she'd given them to my aunt. Of course, my aunt returned the favors, she'd looked after the group of us, her nieces and nephews, and helped around the kitchen at our home.
When my aunt was getting married, my parents felt sad, and told her, that if she'd felt taken in her own mother-in-law's home, that they were her backup forever, it'd moved my aunt to tears.
After she was wed, my aunt worked to help her own household economics, and would, place my three younger boy cousins with my mom, my three younger cousins, grew up with us. And, from time to time when my aunt and uncle had fights, my house was also, a temporary escape from her own home.
My father died at sixty-five of illness, at the time we were still working hard in our separate careers, and it was my aunt who'd become my mother's, best, companion through her grief.
When my mother had the time, she'd planted the vegetables in the local gardens, and naturally, the crops were of my aunt's, favorite; the two of them would cook together, shared conversations, and my cousins always happily told, "my mother is elderly now, and she still has her own family of origin to rely on, with the love of our second eldest aunt, she's, so very, blessed!"
growing old together...like this...photo from online
Mom and aunt's love and connection, it's, an alternative sort of a "companion in old age"! It is, a rare gem, how the sisters-in-law are so connected for life.
Because they were raised up together, as neighbors and best friends, there's that reduction of friction with the sisters-in-law after marriage, and this is something that is, quite, rare too, because, traditionally, the sisters-in-law would compete for the love of the families a lot.
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