Title: "A Car, a Marriage, a Farce: How I Came Out of the Dowry Controversy"
Body:
"Marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog." This old proverb became an unreasonable command in my mother-in-law's mouth. She thought that if I married her son, everything I had would become her family's property. Including that car, my parents gave me the effort - a car of more than 300,000 yuan.
My husband and I are free to love and enter into marriage. The conditions of his family are average, the bride price is only 40,008, and the down payment of 100,000 yuan for the marriage house is from the sister-in-law. My parents loved me in every way and gave me a car of more than 300,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan in cash as a dowry. I thought that was the biggest support for me.
Life after marriage is not as good as I imagined. My parents-in-law and sister-in-law both moved in with us. My sister-in-law often drives my car, never washing or refueling when it runs out. What made me most angry was that she had an accident while driving, and I had to deal with it. I put up with all this, after all, it is a family.
But what I never expected was that when my sister-in-law got married, my mother-in-law actually asked me to give her the car as a dowry. She said, "What you marry into our family and bring with you is ours." "My husband also stood on my mother-in-law's side, thinking that it was okay to give his sister a dowry.
I can't accept this unreasonable request. This car is the brainchild of my parents, it is my love for them, how can it be deprived like this? I strongly disagreed, but my mother-in-law became more and more tough. In the end, I was disheartened and made a decision - divorce.
Divorce is not an easy task. What I had to face was not only the pressure of my mother-in-law, but also the prejudice of society and the misunderstanding of my friends. However, I persevered. Because I know that if I compromise on this issue, then what I will lose will not only be the car, but also my respect for marriage and my insistence on myself.
Life after divorce is not as difficult as I imagined. I got a job back and started my life again. I learned that marriage is not the whole story of life. Me, and myself, and my dreams, my future.
Conclusion: In today's society, how many divorced couples either have no feelings or no money. Of course, marriage entails a lot of commitments, but only if both parties have basic respect and understanding. If you can't do that, then what's the point of marriage? This is my story, a story that has come out of the dowry controversy. You say, "I'm doing this, right?"