As I mention in my post about Lebaran, up till now my helpers haven’t coming yet from the village, while the agreed day is today for them to start working again. I haven’t do the cleaning since yesterday. This morning I was very sleepy because of the medicine I got the night before. I’m in medication? Hmm…not that scarry, it only an allergic problem, wrong food makes me itchy, and the medicine makes me sleepy.
So the house is in complete mess now. We call our helper’s mobile but they didn’t answer. Thinking of doing the cleaning now, it’s 5.08 pm.
Lebaran is a bad days too since I mostly stayed home and see how my hubby behave. He is lazy. Strange of him is that he doesn’t have the interest to work and earn money. That’s the funniest and strangest character of a person, unfortunately he is my husband! His laziness bring him to become an “ordering person”, minutes to minutes, he keep giving order to my helpers, whose are obviously me who paid their salary. I can feel that both of my helpers were tired doing his continuous orders, and it is understandable that they prefer to resign from this job even they are paid above the standard.
Another sad, yet stupid story from my side is, when my helpers’ off, I am the one who did their job. Well, of course only the minimum required. But it’s me, the one who work and finance the family, the one who pay the helpers salary, and the one who do the chores when they are off.
I am –of course- not happy living in this marriage, but the problem is, I have no guts to file for divorce. The idea of divorce was arise since 1994, 17 years a go. The issue come and go but my daughter, shal w name her Dotty, strongly opposed the idea. She mentioned that if we get divorced, she can’t bear the shame of being a broken home youth.
Since my children is the most important treasure in this world, so, beside also my inferior felling of facing the process of divorcing in this culture, I follow her. I am now trapped to a situation where I see myself as the victim. I work to finance the family, my husband is at home doing his hobby which is not productive. He hire an assistant to help him doing his hobby (because he is too lazy to do it himself). When he get jealous or sense something about me doing flirting to another guy, he shout cruel things to me like calling me “slut” etc.
Now you know me, the most stupid woman in this world. I am smart and earn good money as a professional, but I am practically a slave in my own home (even the house is mine, I bought it myself, and the cars, and the furniture…etc…etc…). My children, of course, love me so much. I am their friend. They take me as their best friend, we are so close, they never hide anything from me. They don’t like their father too as he never take care of them. From the morning he wake up till the night he go to bed, everything he think and do is about himself, not for his wife, or his children.
I feel helpless. If these helpers don’t come back, who will do the household chores? I will start working this Monday and there will be a mess in our house since then. OMG, I think I have to deal with this kind of shit a little longer.
Balancing my feeling: Things get worse. This afternoon B1 said something putting me down during our chat, about his uncertainty to our next meeting on mid November.
Hopw for light of the day is B2. He give me the confidence that someone is wanting me, that I am needed. Almost everyday he get online in between his busy day as a PhD in chemistry. He also decided to come down here this end of October for a week, to spend the time with me in Bali. I have arrange all the official intivation to make me able to go to Bali officially. Not for my office but my hubby not to get berserk.
This help much to balanced my marriage.