Things were falling apart. Marriage was on the rocks, work was falling to pieces and nobody really knew what was going on in that little brain of hers.
The husband loved her to bits and yet was given the cold shoulder.
"I just can't love him as much as he loves me." was the lame explanation that totally made no sense.
If only I could remind her that it was she who wanted to marry the guy, 3 years ago against her parents' wishes. He was a divorcee with a kid and her parents were naturally concerned about marrying their daughter to someone with baggage.
As usual, with her wayward tantrums she got her way and they were married.
As it turned out, the husband was a really good catch and the rest of the family started to warm up to him very quickly. He works for Alpha Male too and despite the initial backtalk by the usual CB people in the office, about how being the 驸马爷 will have all the perks of the fast track, he managed to stuff their feet into their mouths with stellar numbers year after year.
Yes, he may be the son-in-law but anyone would have promoted him to where he is now, simply based on his numbers. These CB mouths were all hushed into shame.
All is good..... on the outside.
However, it was a totally different story on the inside. Those in the know, all very 为了他感到不值.
What did he do to deserve this? I mean if he cheated on her, that's fine. At least we know where the problem was.
Yet there was no reason at all. Whatever lame excuses sprouted made no sense. That was the frustrating part. There wasn't an effort to come up with a proper excuse, even if it had to be a blatant lie.
It breaks my heart to see him sleeping on the couch when I wake up in the morning. The kick in the teeth was that their bedroom was empty. She wasn't even home from the night before.
Not that she was having an affair but that she spends an awful lot of time at our neighbour's place who also happened to be the brother-in-law. Yes, there was the initial suspicion something was going on between the two of them but we eventually cleared him.
He also lamented that her late nights at his place was also affecting him and his work. She was there every other night (sometimes every night) regardless of weekday or weekend.
Speaking of work. She quit.
No. More like she stormed off the office.
On the surface, it appears that she got herself into an argument defending her staff on some damn trivia matter and her exit would be one of a martyr forced to exile by evil forces. She wanted to be remembered as the heroine who made the ultimate sacrifice for her people.
The way I see it, she has long been waiting and looking for a way out and decided to use this opportunity to execute her exit.
She has not been pulling her weight in the office. More often than not, I have to go around looking for her only to find her holed up in the meeting room yakking away on the phone. Personally, I am not against private calls during work but there has got to be a limit drawn some where. Disappearing for hours each day is just not acceptable.
Her staff can't say anything coz she is their boss. Alpha Male and I can't say anything coz she wouldn't listen and she is his daughter and my sister.
It was more of a relief for everybody when she throw in the towel. We accept.
So this week, I was discussing with her staff on how to do the handover and taking over. Her staff quipped, there isn't much to take over coz she hasn't be doing much in the first place. I shake my head in despair when I heard this coming from her own staff.
She claimed that she was depressed and all but I don't see that when the husband flew her two BFFs over for a surprised birthday party.
All was good that night when everything was nice. Good food, good wine. Ahh.... the lifestyle.
What really irked me is that she loves the perks of the lavish lifestyle and yet refused to work for it. She takes it for granted that the husband will provide and yet gives nothing back in return.
Everything HAS to be in her favour. She wants the good stuff and only the good stuff.
For better or for worse? I think that clause was omitted somehow.
We laughed about how Singaporean girls are all Maggi Queens. Boiling an egg is probably the most complicated cuisine that they can muster up.
Try this for size. She doesn't even know how to cut a fruit. Everything has to be done for her.
It breaks my heart to see the husband cooking instant noodles for her, just because she said she is hungry.
Can anyone be more helpless?
So right now, she is back in the office doing the handover or whatever that she is making herself to appear busy. Once that is done, her source of income goes with her, leaving her husband to support her.
Under normal circumstances, it appears perfectly fine for a husband to support his wife. But I would like to ask her if she has fulfilled anything that is required of a wife?
So come end of the month when she draws her last paycheck, she will be helpless and then she would be worthless.
The Princess Syndrome is really serious with this one.
Oh how my heart aches.
- Voxeros
