— Lada, we thought that with the money from selling your place, we’d renovate Mom’s house — my husband told me.

  When I heard Maxim say that my family heirloom should be sold to satisfy his mother’s whims, something clicked in my head. Five years of life together, five years of patience and compromise turned to dust in just a few minutes. But let me start from the beginning. It all began that fateful evening […]

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“— Why did you decide that your younger son can move into my apartment?

“Well then, of course, he can. Rent is seventy thousand a month.” Lyudmila and Andrey had been married for about twenty years. They had an older son, Denis, who had just graduated from school and entered university, and a younger daughter, Milana, who had just started eighth grade. The family lived harmoniously: there were hardships, […]

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