Do you often go back to your mother's home after you are married?
By Linda
@xinlingchengbao (438)
Tianjin, China
April 7, 2010 9:48pm CST
hello,my lotter.
Are you married? do you often go back to your mother'home ?and how often? a week or a months or every day ?
my parents live in my hometown now.and i don't often go back to see them.many reasons,i think.i will take my 4-5 hours to go back.
If your parents and your family live in the same city,a short distance,do you often go back? how often ?
thank you ,my friends.
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26 responses
@siliguri (4241)
• India
8 Apr 10
I didn't leave my mother's home after married at all...i will stay with my mother only..becoz it is very difficult me to live without my parents...and i have some responsibility towards my parents..as they are become old..and we have to look after them..no one can come and help them..after all we are their children only...
@svdmydinh (1)
• Vietnam
8 Apr 10
hi,
i often go back to my mother's home ones a week. because she doesn't near my house, it take about 2 hours to go. If a short distance, i will often back to my mother.
maybe 2 days a week.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
8 Apr 10
Going two days a week though you must travel two hours, that is very sweet of you to do that! Is it two hours both ways?
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
8 Apr 10
My mom lives in the next county over but we don't go visiting often with anyone in my family. They never call us and so we don't bother to go visit unless it's spur of the moment. We've been meaning to deliver pictures to my grandparents for quite some time but haven't gone to see them yet.
Whenever we go to visit with my mom she ignores us and turns the t.v. up loud thus we don't bother to go often.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
8 Apr 10
I am not quite sure what you don't understand, could you clarify xinlingchengbao?
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
9 Apr 10
In my opinion, Mom will very happy when she see you ,isn't it ? why she turns the TV up loud? why?
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
8 Apr 10
why? i don't understand.SomeCowgirl.
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@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
9 Apr 10
yes, I'm married. initial time to get married I often visit my mother. I usually visit my mother once a week. I visited my mother once a week because we live in the same city. trip from my home to my mother's house about 30 minutes. I always visit my mother accompanied by my husband. but after the passage of time, I now rarely visit my mother. I rarely visit my mother because my husband never wanted to be with me anymore. Now every time I asked for permission to visit my mother always not allowed. It feels so sad, almost 2 years I have never visited my mother's house. but my mother often visited my place. I'm happy my parents would visit me, but I feel sad because I'm supposed to be visiting my mother.
@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
12 Apr 10
@xinlingchengbao :
I do not know what the reason my husband, every time I ask for permission to visit my mother, always not allowed. even to visit my relatives who are sick are also not allowed. yes, I have a child. about homework, much of what I do. but I always finish on time. though for my husband, there are always flaws with my work.
@oneiro :
in the country and my religion, a wife should ask for permission to the husband, will go anywhere. I always talk with my husband about plans to visit my mother, but was always disappointed that I got.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
11 Apr 10
Why you husband disagree with that?
do you have a kid ? do you have a lot of houseworks to do ?
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@msfrancisco9369 (10002)
• Boston, Massachusetts
8 Apr 10
Hi Xin,
We live on our own since we got married. since then, me and my husband stayed in the city while my parents lived in the province. every year, during christmas or new year or even holy week/summer break we go to the province and stayed there for a week. Now that we already have kids we still continue that practise. mom loves seeing her granchildren and of course me. i am also giving them a call at least three times a week.
@msfrancisco9369 (10002)
• Boston, Massachusetts
8 Apr 10
i am happy that you do! it's nice being updated with what's happening with our parents. we deserve all our love, care and support. a call means a lot to them!
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
9 Apr 10
I agree with you. we can't go back,but we can miss them.
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@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
8 Apr 10
me too.i call my parents every two days.
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@ypyanyan (956)
• China
8 Apr 10
I are not married now .
but I think that if my parents and my family live in the same city ,a short distance .I can go back weekly .
you do that for you will take your 4-5 hours to go back .it can affect your life .
the chinese old words are that children want to support parents but parents go away.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
13 Apr 10
Dear friend,
I am a middleaged lady and got married 31 years ago. When I got married, I w as at a far away place from my hometown.After some time, mine was a 7 hour journey to their place.FO r many years, my husband had stipulated a rule-thta I would be allowed ot go to my fahter's place for a month every year as my annual holiday.I did enjoy thsi for quite some time but later it so happened that his profession took us ther.e
@chenxiaoyue_713 (2165)
• China
8 Apr 10
Hi, friend. I'm unmarried now and I don't know yet how often I'll go and visit my mom when I get married in the future. But I can somewhat predict it from my elder sister's experience. She was married 7 years ago, during which she has been visiting my mom very frequently, let's say, twice a week. I guess I'll probably do that too as I'm extremely attached to my mom.
Have a good day!
@chenxiaoyue_713 (2165)
• China
8 Apr 10
Well, yes, she lives near my mom and has had two lovely kids now who often get into a fight for who will be taken to their grandparents:-).
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
8 Apr 10
oh,Your mother took care of two lovely kids.It is exhausting.she is a great grandma. Your sister ought to go back frequently.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
8 Apr 10
Hi,chen!
twice a week.i think her family is close to your home.she is very lucky. Does she have a kid?
@autumndreamer (3185)
• Philippines
29 Apr 10
I am not yet married but after I'll get married, I'll certainly still go back to my mother's home. Maybe once in a week? I am not sure but I will try my best to visit her as often as possible depending on my schedule. I will build my home next to her home.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
29 Apr 10
That's very good . your mother must glad to see you .
Have a nice day.
@ONEIRO (26)
• Greece
8 Apr 10
hello. i live in the same town with my parents. so i visit them two or three times a week. you know here in greece that i live the members of the family parents children use to be close and after the marriage. in fact parents are more close then as they use to keep the children of their children till they go to school. also our mammys use to cook for us so when we come back from work to have meal from whole family.general our parents use to help us and after marriage as much as they but wihout control our lives. just be close and give a hand when we need. so... we find time to visit them for some minutes 2-3 times in a week.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
9 Apr 10
In china,a lot of people is same as your family. and ,they visit their parents every day after work. The parents cook for them,and they go their home after eating dinner.
@ckyera (17331)
• Philippines
9 Apr 10
hello there!
oh how i wish i was able to visit my mom's home everyday but its impossible for now. i am living in another province and the only time that i can go visit my parents is just once a year and its only for one or 2 weeks! its sad yes but i just have to, coz even if i anted to visit them, its not that easy for me coz i can't just leave the place where i am with and need to ask permission first...anyway, we have learned already to live with this kind of set up and we just see to it that whenever i am there for a vacation, we spend quality time together and try to catch up for the lost time...
if i am just living near them, i think a weekly visit will be fine and if possible even twice a week...hehe or maybe its also good if she can visit me as well... that's always what i am wishing for now, to have my mom in our house and so that she will be able to see how i am as a housewife, and i want her to witness that i am doing now the things that i learned from her in managing the house...
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
11 Apr 10
Ckyera,thank you for answer.
yes,i want my mom to witness that too.
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
8 Apr 10
Yes, i still visit my parents although i had been married for years. I need to travel by plane to be able to reach my hometown. So, i can only visit them once in a year. But, it's good to see, in a few months time, my parents plan to move over and stay in a nearby town with my sisters. I don't have to travel by plane anymore, as it can be reached by driving car distance. So, i can visit them more often, whenever i have the time to travel and visit them.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
8 Apr 10
Congratulations!
You can visit them more often,and in short distance.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
9 Apr 10
My husband, children and myself only live across town from my mother, so we go over to her house to visit her on a regular basis. The minimum number of times that I go to visit her in a week is once and that is typically during the winter time. During the summer, we will go over to her house almost every day because of the fact that she has the swimming pool in her back yard. We will use her yard for recreation during the summer time.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
9 Apr 10
That sounds like a good idea, that is able to see mom and can swim.
@sasalove (1709)
• China
8 Apr 10
I am just married with my husband for a couple of days and did not consider too much on this. We are just 20 minute's away from each other, we would visit my parent's home any time if I like. Life is busy and it seems that it become one of the reason that I planned to visit only on the fesitval, saying Mid Autumn's Day, New year, at least 3 days' off in the company.
I could understand that why most of the people would like to have a son rather than a girl. Son will marry a daughter-in-law and then move in, but daughter would be other's daughter-in-law.
@sasalove (1709)
• China
9 Apr 10
Thanks for your congratulation. Fairly speaking, they will feel lonely if they are not able to work and nobody to talk to. My paprens are still having the energy for work, though the earning is not too much, I agree they are on-jobs, at least this is the way that they could fulfill their life.
Sometimes I call for their healthy status and life situation. This is the way that we still keep in good relationship and let my parents know that I care too much on them dispite that I have married.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
8 Apr 10
Congratulations to your newly-married ,my chinese friend.
Yes,you are right maybe . My parents has two daughter,my sister and i .we have been married and have had child. my parents live in their hometown ,i am afraid that they feel lonely.so i call them often,and do my best to make them happy
@madhuvamsi (1185)
• India
8 Apr 10
First of all I am not a woman to face such situation and my parents have always be with me. My sister got married recently and she is in the same city and always wants to come in the weekends to see us but unfortunately her family commitments come in her way, so, her wish will always be unfilled. I feel very sad that after marriage so many obstacles will come to meet their own parents..
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
9 Apr 10
I understand your sister.
for me ,i must take care of my family,my husband,my son,a lot of housework....
@doglady112 (604)
• Canada
9 Apr 10
I live quite a distance away from my parents, so I do go down to see them every year. I have to, they never come to see me, my mom has only been to my town once. I suppose I could not see them for a year and see if they'll come see me. But my husband has family where my mother lives. So that wouldn't be right for him.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
9 Apr 10
Why don't you and your husband go back together? that is able to see your parents and can see his parents.
@bettydeng5 (1822)
• China
9 Apr 10
I married last year, however I marred a big distance from my mother, and I only go back to my mother's home one time each year, though I missed her very much, but it's big distance to arrive my mother's home. If I lived in short distance with my mother, I will often go back to see her, and chat with her.
@myzire72 (1154)
• Singapore
8 Apr 10
Yes, I do go to my parents' place once a week, usually on Sundays. In fact, my kids love to go there, because their doting grandparents always give in to their every requests for candies or toys. My sister, who is also married and moved out with her husband, will also join us at my parents' place on Sundays.
@Lochoa (222)
• United States
8 Apr 10
Before I moved I went to my mom's house everyday when I first got married. I worked near her home and would have early morning shsits so by lunch time I was off for the day and would swing by her house go out to eat or stay there and eat lunch with her. Plus I worked a business out of her home but even when I wasn't working I went to visit her.
Now I live about 2 hours away so I don't see her every day now but def we try to meet up once a month if not every 3 months. Not far but since we both work now it's little harder to make time.
Also back in august by grandfather was sick and we didn't know what was wrong with him so I went down there faithfully everyweekend to visit him. First everything was going to be "OK" but I still wanted to spend time with him b/c I knew my grandparents are getting up in age and I realized my family is very important to me and I didn't want to miss out at all. Well come to find out about 2 months later on top of his already chaotic situation he was diagnosed with terminal cancer so I kept on going every weekend to vist and take care of him. While he was in the hospital I stayed there and slept there with him in the room and when he went home I slept in his big lazy boy chair. Very Very uncomfortable! But it was worth it! It was hard juggling taking care of him during the weekends not getting a good comfortable night sleep then sunday night going home. Monday through Friday working then again Friday night going to see my grandpa. I did that until December when he passed away and I got so used to going down there every weekend I kept going down there every weekend for about 2 months.
My mom has come to visit me since about 2 times and I've gone to visit her about 2 times and she's actually coming down this weekend. I love my family very much and am thankful I live close enough where it's not too much gas money to go down there and visit. Before I moved out here I was considering moving out of state and now I just thank god I didn't b/c there was no way I would've been able to work and be there for my grandpa and family when they needed me the most.
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
9 Apr 10
Thank you for your response. you are very filial man,good luck.
@chioabatayo (54)
• Philippines
8 Apr 10
me and my fiance are living together. my parents live 1 hour away from our house while his parents live 4 hours away from our house. since we don't have children yet, i still have time to drop by my parents place 2-3 times a week, while we go visit his parents every other week..
we both make it a point that we still see them and have dinner with them every now and then.. i miss my family a lot.. i really do.. i miss my dad more than anyone.. i remember that he wakes up 3 am just to prepare breakfast to us.. my dad is a very hands on father, he never miss any school event.. his priority is his children.. career is only 2nd to him..
now that his sick, i visit them more.. to cook dinner this time.. i want to let him feel how i loved and how im thankful to all the breakfast he prepared for us..
i love my family a lot...
@xinlingchengbao (438)
• Tianjin, China
9 Apr 10
You have a great father, let us wish him recovery soon