I’m a woman in my 50s. How would you feel if you became rich one day? Once, I used to imagine how great it would be if suddenly I found bundles of money with no owner.
Money can’t buy happiness, but you need money to be happy, and having money is never going to make you unhappy. So, the more money you have, the better, I thought. However, the moment the dream became a reality, I experienced that even if I had a lot of money, I could be unhappy.
I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about it, so I am writing this story. I met my husband, who was five years older than me, at a factory where we worked together. From the moment we saw each other, we had a crush on each other, so we quickly became close.
After dating for a year, we got married. My husband and I were not well off financially. I lived okay from the money left by my paternal grandpa, but I lived alone with my dad, who became a widower and blew all his money.
My husband lived in the countryside in his 10-year-old trailer home with a single mom who was paying off his father’s debt, with a young sister who was eight years below him. As both sides of the family were poor, we could barely afford a small wedding and started our newlywed life in a one-room studio rental in a basement, with one thousand dollars paid as a deposit. Our newlywed life started with hardly anything, with bare minimum.
Anyway, that’s how we started as a husband and wife. My husband was kind and sincere, and I was very thrifty to the extent of being called a miser by the people around me, but we were happy every day, as if we were playing house. We decided to have a baby when…..Read Full Story Here.…….
