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She is coming back to Malaysia soon.
2017 has been a bit better when she was in Australia. Every three months she will be in Australia to help her daughter to take care of her son, taking a month break in between. She is a lot more happier in Australia than when she is in Malaysia. While we should not judge everything purely on social media, but I could not stop but noticed how her smiles were more genuine when she was in Australia then when she is in Malaysia.
I will confess that I was always uncomfortable whenever she was around town. She was such a bully last time but of course no one will call her out on that because she is more senior and also a mother. After all, she sacrificed so much for her family that it makes me a whiner.
These days, I feel sorry and a little worried for her. When I see photos and videos of her being genuinely happy in Australia, I wish she continued to stay there instead of coming back to Malaysia. While she had been mean to me before, but I am more worried for her coming back because that means she will come back to my father in-law’s abuses. I have seen my father in-law verbally and emotionally abusing her. Sometimes I wish I can do the heroine thing by just stopping the fights in between them and shake them to their senses.
Well, I know if I meddle, it will make things worse. God, please help them and even if I am not meant to be a heroine to save my mother in-law, but help me to continue to love them even when it gets really hard.