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Days ago, she was watching TV when I put my food on the dining table and went to the bedroom to pick up my phone. My wife was using my phone, so I had to stay for a little while in the bedroom to get it. When I was getting back to the hall, I noticed my mother-in-law rushing away from my food back to her seat.
All of a sudden, she was acting jumpy around me and started asking questions that on a normal day she wouldn’t ask. I went to the kitchen, picked a drink, and came back to my food. I was torn between eating it regardless or not eating it because I couldn’t trust my interpretation of what just happened.
I sat next to the food and slowly sipped the drink without touching the food. Later, I sent the food back to the kitchen and covered it. I was out on the veranda using my phone when she called my name, “Amponsah, you didn’t eat your food? Or will you come back to it?”
I responded, “The drink I took filled me up, so I couldn’t eat it. I don’t know—maybe I will come back to it.”
Can you imagine she told my wife not to touch my food because I’d told her that I would go back to it? I didn’t touch the food until late in the evening when I secretly threw it away. Even then, she came to ask me if I ate the food, and I said yes. She retorted, **“Good that you ate it. It’s not good to throw food away. In my house, we were taught to take enough so we don’t waste food.”
I’ve been thinking about this to the extent that I took it to my dreams. I saw her asking about the food. The only difference is that in the dream, she knew I didn’t eat the food, so she was very disappointed and was talking to me like a child, warning me never to waste food when she’s around.
I’ve been disturbed. Since I cannot confirm anything, I’m unable to speak to my wife about it. Well, my in-law hasn’t come back since that event, so I don’t know how the relationship between us is going to be. Some days, I’m sure she put something in my food. Other days, I tell myself, “No, she wouldn’t. Why would she do that?”
I don’t know if I should talk to my wife about it or leave things the way they are. What do you suggest?
—Dorothy
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