do you let HIM to have another MARRIAGE .......??? It begins when her mother ...

@aowaow (1516)
Indonesia
May 28, 2008 11:51pm CST
As a woman, how do you feel if your have a 5-years-marriage, but you're not gifted a child, you had checked medically in several places, the results said it's impossible for you to bear a kid, even it's from outside. Your husband loves you, both of you have a good relationship. He is the only son and single kid to his parents. Until one day, his mother asked him to marry another woman that she introduces his son. His mother wants him to have her pure blood-line grandson. Your husband said he feels heavy as it means not showing a devotion to his mother. Adoption kid had been once flown into her mother's brain. But she said, you may have the adoption after she has the pure blood-line. How do you decide if you are the woman in the story? Guys may also contribute for the husband emotional side.
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@makingpots (11915)
• United States
29 May 08
I think the mother-in-law needs to be a little more sensitive about the problem. Love and caring is a lot more important than a pure blood-line grandson. The MIL needs to stay out of this marriage.
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@jczvrse (169)
• United States
29 May 08
If the man loves his wife and they have a good relationship he needs to tell his mother off. I can understand wanting kids of your own but when it isn't possible it isn't possible and the love they feel for each other over rides mom. Have you considered artificial insemination? A surrogate ? Still a pure bloodline but couple stays together no new wife.....
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@ambkeb (782)
• United States
30 May 08
WOW! What day and age is this mother from? LOL Blood lines arent as important as they once used to be. I think if I were the wife in that...I would tell the mother in law where to put it. She has absolutly no say so about anything in the marriage. IF the husband DID take her side in that, then good riddence. No need to keep around a man who obviously has no love and compassion.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
29 May 08
I would feel very bad and sad if I could not have achild, but it would be a lot worse if my husband would give in to his mother the mother in law is out of line .and If I were in the young woman's shoes I would tell mother in law that she has no right to interfere in any way and specially in such a bizarre notion as having him marry another woman. the whole thing is utterly ridiculous.
@tessah (6617)
• United States
29 May 08
i dont think a parent has any rights to meddle in this situation at all in the first place, and should keep her nose out of it.
@mimm45 (168)
• Australia
29 May 08
If this is about you then I'm very sorry that your in this situation. It is very sad that his mother thinks that way. But it is also unfair to both of you. Marriage is not only about having (biological) children. I agree it is good if you can have kids of your own but if you are not blessed then so be it. You can always adopt. His mother's solution is not the best way. But then marriage is really about two people, the husband and the wife. If you are in a loving relationship then there is no reason why being childless should affect this.
• India
29 May 08
My first thoughts were to say ‘what nonsense in this age!’ but then I started thinking about what choices do women have under such circumstances. I am lucky in the sense that being a daughter I have my parents unconditional love and being a wife, my husband is always by my side. I am educated and have a job to support myself. So if ever such a situation arose in my life (it cant, as we have a beautiful son) I would have left my husband and chose to remain single. Not being able to conceive can be the husband’s fault too, so he can go on changing wives to please his mother for all I care. Since I can support myself financially, I would not like to live under the same roof with such husband and in-laws and swallow my pride. But not all women are lucky like me. Many of them are dependent on their husbands for their very survival and honourable lifestyle and going back to the parents may not be a viable option.
@Galena (9110)
29 May 08
marriage is about love between two people, not about children. if children happen, they happen, but if they don't, that doesn't make it any less a marriage. and it's none of the Mother in Laws business if they have children or not. it's their descision. and if it's not descision but biology, it's still a marriage. people don't marry to have children, they marry to be with the one they love. what kind of idiot would put the in laws wishes to be a grandparent over their own relationship.
@sisterjinx (1135)
• United States
29 May 08
What? I can't even fathom this. I mean if he wanted to leave then there would be nothing you could do. It would speak volumes about his character anyway. But this isn't something HE is saying he wants. having a child is not the most important thing in a marraige. If you are in love and you want to remain together then you can find other ways of having a child. You can get a surrogate mother to carry a baby for you the two of you. She could be inseminated with your hubby's seed and have a "true bloodline" child for you, if it's really that important. He doesn't need to leave you and be with someone else just to have a child. They both need to be more sensitive and supportive to your feelings. If your husband follows his mother's wishes and ignores your feelings then that speaks to me of his character as well and you need to evaluate if you want to be with someone like that.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
29 May 08
If I were the wife in this situation, I will tell the mother in law to ask forgiveness from God. I will tell her bluntly that as a Mother she should not teach her son to practice immorality if only for the sake of having a blood-line grandson. I will tell her that she is driving his own son to sin against God and for the both of them to go to Hell! If she would not listen, I will tell her to get out of our own life and she does not not have the right to dictate on us on what to do. God simply will not tolerate the suggestion of the mother in law. As it is written " Marriage is honorable and the bed undefiled but fornicators and adulterers, God will judge.[Heb.13:4] As to the husband, if he loves me truly, he will not listen to his mother and in fact he should be the one to rebuke his mother for her immoral advice. If he would still feel heavy for not following her mother, then I'd ask him to choose between me and her mother. If he chooses her immoral mother than I will simply separate from him or if he chooses me, then we will go on with our lives. Then we will adopt a child of a relative or a friend to be sure that the child is of good lineage.
@nupats (3564)
• India
29 May 08
i know many of such cases...if the husband truely loves his wife he will never do wt his mom is saying...it wud b inhuman if does so on his moms saying..first of all his mom is wrong in saying that he has to have his pure blood line...here she shud have understood that as it is her son and daughter in law are going through so much mental trauma..being a woman herself she shud b more sensitive abt it...as far as the son is concerned if he does leave her thats just too bad and tht does not prove tht he was under pressure it just proves tht he was spineless..good luck i hope the husband sticks around with his wife and realises tht meaning of marriage is being together and supporting in tough times..