My neighbour is an expert at defending herself. In her eyes, she is the perfect woman with a perfect husband and a perfect son. She is friends with me and I have no issues with her, but I am appalled at the hypocrisy she portrays.
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The lady is in her late 60's and is the second wife of her husband. She was telling me about her niece who remarried because her first husband was forced into marriage. Her second husband was also a divorcee and his first wife divorced him after episodes of domestic abuse. She told me that her neices husband is a shit man, but his niece married him for money and is managing him quite well. She told me how her neices husband doesn't deserve her, but is lucky to have her. I nodded a 'yes' to her because I knew, she would never consider my opinion. Here she conveniently loaded all the blame on her neices husband saying husband's are all same. She also went on to tell how her neices husband doesn't allow her to visit her parents and how bad that is.
Next day she came to me telling about her autistic step son who had moved to stay with his mother when he was young. She continued to tell me how her husband's ex wife was a bad lady and how much her husband tried to save the marriage, but the ex - wife wanted to support the family and that led to frequent clashes which eventually resulted in divorce. She concluded it with " which husband would allow his wife to support her family".
So, when it was about her neice, she should be allowed to meet her family and support them, but her husband's ex wife deserved to be seperated as she preferred to support her family who needed it the most at that time.
There are many people as hypocrites as her. They have different set of rules for their daughters and daugter in law's. I wonder how confidently they put across their opinion in public without worrying about people judging them.
