Tales of Desi Horror!!!

Sara516 · April 6, 2010, 3:58am

I realize I should have clarified a few points in my first post:

A) **The mother of the gentleman in question is, for lack of a better term: a btch. I’ve met her personally, and I find her to be one of the least pleasant individuals I have ever met. She once slandered me by claiming that I suffer from a medical condition that I do not even have, and even I have half a mind to take this btch to court for slander/defamation. Then again, I’m not her son.
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B) The woman herself doesn’t work but isn’t by any means destitute. Her husband had a well-paying job in the Gulf, saved up a tidy (tax-free) sum, and bequeathed the greater portion of it to his wife a children. Had the woman wanted to settle this matter out of court to save face for both herself and her son, she most likely could have. That said: she didn’t. Instead, she chose to take her son to court, and play the victim when in public, likely knowing the legal outcome would probably be in her favor anyway.

C) My sympathies do not lie with the mother. Nor, however, do they lie with the son, or his wife. I’ve met all three, known them for several years, and find all three to be singularly unpleasant. The youngest son, however, is pleasant and personable, and has my sympathy.

D) Both the woman’s son and his wife have well-paying jobs, support no dependents, and do NOT lack for money. I don’t think this was EVER really about the money.

E) Though the son is blaming his wife for instigating the quarrel, I don’t for a MINUTE place the blame on her. Is the wife a manipulative b*tch? Absolutely; no less than the mother, in this respect. But given the choice between taking his/her parents to court for money or divorcing his/her spouse, many a Desi would choose the lesser stigma of divorce over the greater one of filial impiety. The son wouldn’t have sued his mother unless HE himself actually wanted to, it’s a simple as that.

I thought so.

Nice, normal mothers don’t raise sons who take them to court.