My husband and I had been married for about a year and a half when we decided to move to my husbands home town. His parents asked us if we wanted to move into their basement and save some money until we could find a place to live. We were very low on money at the time and took them up on it. It was around Christmas time and I was trying to find a job. In a small town there are not very many jobs and nothing in my field of study. Both in laws kept telling me to take any job. I told them I did not spend four years in college to work for minimum wage. They got up set with me and told me I thought I was too good for honest work. I tried to explain that I wanted to work in my field of study and they said my college degree was a waste of my time. I could not believe what I was hearing.
The next thing that happened was my mother in law sat me down one day to tell me that I had changed her son. I asked her what she meant by that and I got an ear full. First of all my husband had majored in education and coaching, but when he graduated there were no teaching jobs out there. He was approached by someone who told him he should be in sales and so he decided to sell insurance. Now, my Dad worked for an insurance company, but with their computers. She assumed that since my Dad worked for an insurance company that I had talked him into selling insurance and not coaching. Little did she know that my husband had come to me with the idea. I was so shocked that she would accuse me of such a thing. I cannot remember all the things she unloaded on me, but there were several. All I could do was sit there and say that she was wrong. She did not believe me. My husband took her aside and told her she was wrong and to never talk to his wife like that. As usual I kept my mouth shut and did not fire back.
The next day something else happened, but I'm running out of time and I will tell you later what his Dad did to us. Until next time, Dawn
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