After getting married, if your partner’s parents don’t send you a birthday greeting红包, would you mind?

Mao Ge saw a real incident.

A boy, for his wife’s birthday, spent two months’ wages to buy her an LV bag, and also took her out for a meal.

“Why didn’t your mom wish me a happy birthday?”

(The boy thought it was something that should be handled with a红包.)

On the way home, his wife suddenly asked him this.

The boy thought it was a minor matter. After getting home, he immediately asked his mother to post a 500 yuan红包 in the family group, and added birthday wishes.

Unexpectedly, the wife asked again:

“Then what about your dad? Why didn’t he wish me a happy birthday?”

Later, the boy recalled that the marriage only lasted about a year.

They met through a blind date. After knowing each other for a year, they got married! The wife was a high school teacher. Her education, job, and appearance were all good, and she was born into a single-parent family. As for himself, he’s always been a giving-type person—for example, since he was a kid, his parents had taught him: “Sincerity gets sincerity.”

So as long as his wife asked, he would almost always meet her requests.

In the end, they still divorced.

In his final words, the boy said:

“Only after the divorce did I realize that maybe from the start, our expectations for marriage were different.”

If it were you, would you mind if your partner’s parents didn’t send you a birthday greeting or a birthday红包?

Do you think it’s respect—showing they treat you as family?

Or do you think it doesn’t matter? That it’s the elders’ freedom, and it shouldn’t become a burden on the marriage?