On the marriage of an only child
The man I'm currently in a relationship with is also an only child. We both began to be aware of marriage in terms of age.
My parents' house is far enough to use an airplane, and his parents' house is in a nearby prefecture.
He will take over the family business, so if he gets married, I think he will live in his parents' prefecture.
His parents are older than my parents, so they seem to have an old school way of thinking.
I don't seem to have a good impression of me growing up as a single parent, and we haven't met each other during our long relationship. It seems that his mother asks me a lot of questions, is jealous and denies all of his answers, and encourages her to marry her friend's daughter. I'm an only son, and I think that's going to happen.
I also care about his parents, so I believed that if we met, that would be conveyed and we could build a better relationship over time.
He also seems to be thinking positively because I think that way.
However, recently I have had a feeling that my ideas may be poor.
My mother is far away and alone, and when she eventually gets sick, I can't go easily.
How is everyone doing? I now often look at consultation sites.
When I look at mother-in-law consultations on other sites, there are really a lot of things that say “the wife only goes back to her parents' house” or “the husband's parents take priority because they came to the wife.”
Also, there are many claims on the bride's side that “I am my husband's wife, and I have no intention of getting married at home.”
I was appalled by the fact that both claims were really self-centered.
However, when I think about myself being asserted by my mother-in-law above... it really seems impossible to think “if you value your partner, it will be conveyed.” It was no wonder that it developed into the daughter-in-law problem I saw on the consultation site.
If I don't like that, I feel like the light goes out, wondering if I will live only with my parents, spend my old age alone, and die.
They're both equally important, so I don't want to think about which one is a priority.
However, when I imagined that his parents and biological parents were drowning all at once, I definitely thought I would take the hand of my biological parents. And then he helped his parents, and I would help my biological parents, and then I would help him.
In the end, “about the same” was pretty, and I gave priority to my biological parents.
Wouldn't it be better for him to marry a woman recommended by his parents when he doesn't have any siblings to help him?