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We live in a kind of joint family. the problem is that my mother had taken it upon herself to call everyone from India and settle them in the US and even when they were in India they wanted my mother and father to run everything for them. I remember in my childhood my mom would take me to the factory she worked at and kept me in the office with other kids whose parents couldn' t afford babysitters. I also remember them staying up until 3 in the morning and working 2 jobs each. It was horrid yet my mother had no hard feelings. Now that the rest of my fathers family is here and my dad with our finances has set them into there own businesses everyone behaves rudely with my mom alone. My grandmother (aka mom' s mil) lives with us and abuses my mom telling her that she never does enough for the family and that she is the worst person. My aunt (dad' s brother' s wife) who is the respective elder had created big fights between my father and mother. I don' t understand how one person can work her entire life and the rest of the daughter in laws enjoy and abuse her mentally all the time. I tried to fight for her and my father became mad with me. Someone help me to figure out how to protect my parents little assets that they haven' t yet sucked up and how to protect my mother from daily mental torture. My mom' s parents have both passed and her brother lives in australia so they can' t really help. What should I do to protect her honor and keep our families name in society.
understand replied. the only people who can protect your mother from abuse is herself and your father. The only reason she is targeted is because everyone understands that they she does not have your father' s support. The reason the other women of the house are not treated in this manner is because people are afraid of the repurcussions. In your mothers case since no matter what they say they need not be afraid of anyone minding they are free to vent.