Marital Chains and Liberation

, there were so many thi

other's parents. The only family membe

rents, where to take our wedding photos, where to have t

lter's parents was

entually realized that Walter was deliberat

we lived, meeting them shou

but ask Walter w

ly told me the truth, "My

ple I hadn't even met. What shocked me the most was t

r, someone who grew u

t time, I at least had my own small apartment, while Walter lived w

that he would conv

t time, he almost never went back to his parents

her's small company. He would hang up on

the situation was to give

they might lose their only son

's persistence, they finally rele

nts had consented, Walter felt like a hu

I.

bit mel

, I thought it didn't matter how his parents felt as lo

was without a

and given the circumstances, I didn't expect t

rents didn't discuss anything ab

in my small apartment after marriage, that there would be no wedding, and that they wo

ut living in my apart

in, and being pregnant, I did

baby, I never expected h

ion with them, which I w

ng, an official ceremony, was u

d many relatives and friends in the ci

some frien

ing married, she had even in

troublesome, I still hoped for our relati

et felt like somet

seemed troubled and unwilling to even try co

bout we host a small gat

awkward if my parents don't get invited. They will

found a solution, "Let'

He excitedly listed a bunch of

h this and got excited about planning the

r's irresponsible natur

ibility, he preferred to avoid it or let it s

erms of my parents, though from the countryside, were open

elieved I could b

warmth of enjoying dinner together as a family, the joy of traveling wi

, but never considered that

life of my love with Walter