He Admitted That He Married His Doctor Wife Because His Wealthy Parents Disowned Him, And He Knew She Would Become Financially Stable
This 30-year-old man and his wife, Eileen, 33, have been in a wonderful marriage for a few years now.
Eileen is a logical and intelligent woman who he has confidence in. However, he wouldn’t have been motivated to marry her in the first place if his parents never disowned him.
His parents come from family money, but his father valued integrity and working for what you have. Throughout his childhood, he didn’t get good grades, ditched his classes, and teachers had issues with his behavior.
“My parents sent me abroad for college because I would probably not pass the college entrance exam,” he said.
“All I cared about then was hanging with my friends and having fun. I scraped through college, but my father was furious that I did not graduate on time. He disowned me, and I was cut off from the family money.”
He and Eileen met while they were in college, and she was always intelligent and committed. During college, she already knew that she wanted to be a doctor. While they were in school together, he knew that she had romantic feelings for him.
“I knew that I would run out of money and my life would be rough if I didn’t have someone to keep me in check. So, I asked out Eileen, and in a couple of years, we were married,” he explained.
Throughout their relationship, Eileen worked a lot as an intern and then as a resident before becoming a full doctor. Over the years, he has done as much as he could to be a wonderful partner and husband for her.
Not long ago, his parents got in touch with him because his father suffered a heart attack. This health scare understandably rattled his father, so it motivated him to contact him. After learning this information, they had a family dinner together, and Eileen came with him.
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During dinner, his parents remarked on how they were surprised and impressed that he married a woman like Eileen, who is a doctor with a highly regarded specialty. This made her a much more respectable woman for them to be able to call their daughter-in-law.
“They commented that she was nothing like the ‘trashy’ girls I used to date that they had to scare off and asked what made me change my type,” he shared.
“I said them disowning me was the reason I married Eileen. That was the wrong thing to say. Everyone got quiet at dinner and were clearly uncomfortable.”
He questioned Eileen about whether she’d been aware of this, and she told him that she’d wondered if that was the reason he married her, especially considering how difficult the topic of his parents disowning him always seemed to be for him.
Since this conversation at dinner with his parents, Eileen has been acting different, and he has no idea what’s going on or if he said something hurtful. But he deeply loves Eileen and is planning to find out what she’s thinking.
What advice would you give him?
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