Mother Wisdom of the Wisdom Goddess, this is the patriarchy in action, the end of the wise women. You’ve succeeded…

My mom, my mother-in-law and my dad. I also have a younger brother. My mother-in-law and my dad never once went out and worked in their lives. They’ve never earned a penny.<br>My mom worked all her life, got pregnant several times during her 17 years of work but, miscarried all of her pregnancies. She never had a normal child birth. She was also diagnosed with uterine cancer and had to have her uterus removed. She decided to live without children. After 10-11 years of marriage, she got pregnant, and out came my brother. After that, at the age of 38, she got pregnant again, and this is me. <br>So she sacrificed her life, career, reproductive rights and more for her family, and in the end, it was the same, my mother-in-law and my father, who never worked in their lives, who had better and healthier lives. <br>The story didn’t end yet, my brother divorced my mother-in-law for his second marriage. But the conditions were that he would take my mom with him to his new home. My mom refused the divorce and stayed with him in his new home, where she continued to work and cook and clean. <br>I never married because I was afraid of this, but I also married in the end. My mother-in-law also lived with me in my new home, and because she had more experience, she taught me how to obey him and how to be a submissive wife. <br>When I got pregnant, my mom raised my son, and I continued to work. I sacrificed all the moments I could have had with my child and put them all into work. And now I reap the reward.<br>In the face of my son’s hostility and contempt, I see a reflection of myself, a self born of guilt, of shame, of the loss of reproductive rights, of the loss of the right to work and education. <br>I see a self that could never be born in a healthy and happy way.