My mother-in-law kicked me out of the house so her oldest son and his wife could "have a baby in peace." The next day, I called the movers, and she panicked when she saw that I wasn't just taking my things… I was taking the entire rent with me. I was paying $5,600 a month for that house in the hills. She didn't know. My husband didn't have the courage to tell her the truth either.
It all started on Sunday, after the family dinner. My mother-in-law, Patricia, set her coffee cup on the table and looked at me as if I were an unwelcome guest.
"Mariana, we need to talk."
My husband, Andrew, looked down at the floor. That was the first thing that hurt me. Not her words, but his silence.
"Your brother-in-law and Fernanda have been trying to have a baby for years," my mother-in-law said. "And this house is bigger. Nicer. More suitable for a real family."
I swallowed hard. "A real family?"
Fernanda rubbed her flat stomach with the face of a victim. "The doctor said stress affects things a lot." My brother-in-law nodded as if I were occupying an incubator.
Patricia smiled without a shred of shame. "You and Andrew don't have children yet. You can move to a smaller apartment. Don't be selfish."
I looked at Andrew. I waited for him to say something. To clarify that this house didn't belong to his mother. That the lease was in my name. That every month, $5,600 came out of my account because he had lost his job nearly a year ago and I had covered for him so he wouldn't be humiliated.
But Andrew only muttered, "Honey, maybe we could help."
Help. That’s what he called leaving me homeless to please his family. I felt something break inside me, but I didn't cry. I only asked, "And who is going to pay the rent?"
My mother-in-law let out a laugh. "Oh, Mariana, don't be dramatic. Andrew always takes care of those things."
Scar from the Lion King.
He is the only lion there that behaved like a lion. Mufasa was running that Kingdom like a circus. "Hey, look. I know I eat you but I really like you. Come look at my son who will grow up to eat you". Busy involving monkeys in lion affairs and leaving his brother to have no choice but to form frienships with the enemy hyenas.
He had every right to fight for that throne because that is what male lions do. He didn't even kill that dude, it was the wildebeests that finished him off. The same ones he was doing musicals with.
To show that he was right, Simba started a new life of eating bugs when he ran away because he has the same weak genes as his father. When there was a drought, Scar didn't eat bugs. He kept it real and starved, but they made it seem like the drought was his fault. He was leading in difficult times!
When it was now convenient and the rains were coming, your Bug Eating king came back to take on a starving Scar while he had a stomach full of caterpillars and cockroaches because even when living with prey he is not the leader.
Scar's only mistake was letting Simba live. If he killed that little dude then the rains would come and the Kingdom would thrive again under his leadership. But no, he let him live and he came back when it was convenient because he can only lead in good times like his useless father.
Mufasa and Simba were good dudes, Scar was just a real lion. Which is what you would expect in a movie about lions 🤦🏾♂️
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