It was our last day of our Navajoland visit. My husband’s cell phone alarm went off at 4:50 a.m., which was set to our local time of 5:50 a.m. I could not get back to sleep and so I chanted my routine mantra and daily prayer. Within one hour my family woke up naturally. We got ready to leave for our trip back to our house.
On the way back while driving, my husband and I had an interesting topic to talk. I mentioned that his parents and brother treated him as their Yes-person because he never turns down their favors. Now that his dad has passed, his mom fully depends on my husband a lot. She does not ask her first son even though he was right there during this trip. I felt like they are treating my husband as their daughter. I mentioned to my husband about my mom. My mom often told me she had two children a son and a daughter. Even though the son lives very close to her house, actually within 5-minutes walking distance, she could not ask anything to her son and his wife. But my mom often told me it was easy for her to ask me anything casually. And my mom always concluded that a daughter is mentally close to their parents rather than a son. When I shared this story with my husband, it rang his bell. He said it really makes sense to him. He was born 9 years after his older brother. Since their first son was out of their hand in his younger years, they often talked about their dream to have a daughter. When my husband’s mom got pregnant with my husband, they often wished the baby would be a girl. Thus, my husband received his parent’s expectation to be born as their daughter. We now know why his parents fully depend on my husband, not to their first son. It is good to analyze and come to a conclusion.
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