After only 3 days of marriage, I had to pack my clothes and go back to my mother's house after hearing my mother-in-law's request to keep my salary.

My mother-in-law also said that it was a family rule. I didn't expect her to apply this rule to me alone.

Since my husband and I fell in love, my parents did not agree. They said I was an only child, and that I could not find anyone else but instead looked for a family with two sons, and that my in-laws were difficult.

I didn't pay attention to my parents' complaints. At that time, I naively thought that I married my husband because I married him, not his family. Whether his parents were good or bad had nothing to do with me.

So, in that blind innocence, I brought the house my parents gave me as a dowry and ostentatiously got into the wedding car to go to my husband's house.

My relatives all praised me for being gentle and bringing luck to my husband. Only my mother-in-law was pleased, saying that her eldest son was still talented, without spending a penny he had married his beloved daughter and had his own house.

My mother-in-law's complacency made my parents uncomfortable. My hasty marriage made my parents lose face in front of their relatives. Regardless of what others thought, my husband and I finally completed the wedding smoothly.

Just 3 days later, a request from my mother-in-law caught me off guard. When we were preparing to go to my parents' house and go on our honeymoon, my mother-in-law arrived.

She looked around and exclaimed, "It's still great to have an only child, with a house, a car, and everything." My mother-in-law's words made me feel uncomfortable. Her next words made me lose all thoughts about our honeymoon.

Mother-in-law said: "Now that you're back in our house, our family has a rule that the daughter-in-law's salary must be given to the mother-in-law to keep. Please consider when to give your salary to me to keep."

I looked at my husband in surprise, but he remained silent. Seeing that I still hadn't answered, my mother-in-law seemed impatient. She continued: "Actually, I kept your salary because I was worried that you two newlyweds wouldn't know how to take care of yourself, would spend lavishly, and would suffer when you got pregnant and had children later."

My mother-in-law also told me to rest assured that she would keep it for me and not touch a single penny of it. Her explanation made me feel like she was hiding something.

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I feel awkward and confused, I've grown up so much, worked for so many years, I've never given my salary to my parents to keep, why do I have to give it to my mother-in-law after only 3 days of marriage?

I asked my mother-in-law again: "So my sister-in-law also paid her salary?". My mother-in-law seemed confused and said: "She has 2 children, and she still has to raise them so she doesn't need to pay. If you and your husband don't have children yet, then pay them back to take care of the children later."

Hearing that, I was not happy. My sister-in-law had been in her husband's house for so many years and had never paid her salary. Why did I have to pay after only 3 days of being home? Wasn't my mother-in-law bullying me for just moving in?

I firmly told my mother-in-law that I can keep the money I earn myself and don't need anyone else to keep it for me.

Hearing that, my mother-in-law angrily said to me: "If you don't give me money, how will we spend it?"

I was shocked. I had been married for less than a week and my in-laws were already assigning me the task of taking care of my grandparents? How did they live before I became a daughter-in-law? Moreover, they were not old enough to be unable to work.

I know that as the eldest daughter-in-law, I will have responsibility towards my in-laws in the future, but I have just arrived at my husband's house and he has already placed this problem on me, making me very upset.

I turned to my husband, intending to ask him to help me decide. Unexpectedly, he said: "Honey, why don't you listen to your mother? We don't know how to calculate money yet, and we're afraid of spending it lavishly. It's okay for your mother to hold on to it for us, she doesn't spend much anyway. Your parents have always been very frugal."

My husband's words made my blood boil even more. I coldly watched my husband go back into the house to pack his clothes. I said: "Then I'll go back to my mother's house, you go back to live with your mother too, I'll sell or rent this house."

Yes, I have only been married for 3 days and I am already thinking about divorce. I would rather divorce than live my whole life in such an unreasonable family, living with an unclear husband who does not know how to protect his wife and only listens to his mother. I would rather be single! I just feel guilty towards my parents!

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