Father... I'm sorry, I love you

No. 604 The story introduced this time

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This time, we are introducing a post from a man who talks about a conversation he had in a hospital room for the first time in a long while, seven years after his wife collapsed from a stroke.

Regarding the timing of the post,
summary site I confirmed the post date as March 7, 2013, from a copy-paste, but I apologize if that is incorrect.

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899: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 19:09:27.95
Me 60, Wife 43, Daughter 20 x 1
Sorry for the story from an old guy.

Reading this thread late the night before last, I turned pale realizing that I might not have even spoken calmly to my wife in the last few years.

I thought I had to put this into action.

Yesterday evening, after finishing work, I headed straight to my wife's room, and she was staring blankly at the TV.

After glancing at me when I appeared in the room, she turned her eyes back to the TV, but I resolved that if I got stuck on something like this, I would never be able to say it, so I spoke to her while standing in front of the door next to the TV.

Me: "I'm home, Mother"
Wife: "......"
Me: "I want you to listen, you can stay as you are"
Wife: "......Huh? (Still watching TV)"
Me: "Before we got married, you stayed silent and endured it even when my family said terrible things, didn't you"
Me: "A long time has passed since we married, and ▲▲ (daughter) has become a university student, and she has grown up, hasn't she"
Wife: "......"
Me: "I love you, ○○-chan. From now on, forever. Thank you for marrying me"
Wife: "......"
Me: "I love you, ○○"
Wife: "......"

It was when I had waited for about 20 seconds and thought it was a dud.

Tears streamed down from my wife's eyes while she was still watching the TV, and she slowly turned her head toward me.

Wife: "...... (Looking at me while crying silently)"
Me: "Ah, ah, I'm sorry Mother, I surprised you suddenly, I'm sorry, I'm sorry (panic)"
Wife: "I love you"
Me: "...... (Too surprised to speak)"
Wife: "Father... I'm sorry, I love you"

After hearing that, I burst into tears and don't remember anything else.

I clung to my wife's side and apparently cried loudly until the nurse rushed over.

According to what I heard, my wife was stroking my head while repeating, "I love you, I'm sorry."

It was the first conversation we had in about four years, while my wife's condition had been steadily worsening for the seven years since she collapsed from a stroke.

My daughter also went to Osaka, and I was shamefully starting to feel a selfish limit to the caregiving, but I was able to realize once again that my wife is the one suffering the most.

My wife, who smiled and brushed off the terrible slander from my relatives and joined me.

Both my wife and I were saved by this thread; thank you to my beloved family and this thread.

900: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 19:10:20.93
Ah, I'm sorry for breaking the flow!

Sorry...

901: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 19:19:18.11
( ；∀；) That's a GJ indeed

902: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 19:30:36.12
>>899
You're a man and woman who love each other, so what are you going to do if you don't have a lot of fun from now on!
Once your wife's rehabilitation progresses, there are still too many things you haven't done, like eating delicious food and being moved by seeing beautiful scenery together!

I'm glad you made it in time for various things. Really glad.

903: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 19:59:29.22
>>902
Thank you.

When we got married, my relatives were vehemently opposed to the fact that my wife was a farmer's daughter, and there is a past where they deeply hurt my wife.

My wife brushed off the abuse with a smile and silence, never said a single bad word about my relatives,
and without blaming me, she would only say, "You are an important son, so your mother is worried. Thank you for protecting me and deciding to be with me."

I cut ties with my parents' home to be with her, and not a single one of my relatives contacted us for the ceremony, and I caused trouble for my parents-in-law as well.

Our only daughter, born after three years of being childless, I doted on and spoiled her, so my wife had to be strict with her.

The night my daughter said, "I hate you because you're scary, Mother," it was hard to see my wife crying in the kitchen without making a sound.

Because of that, I, a fool, reflected on how I raised her, and around the time my daughter graduated from elementary school, my wife's health deteriorated.

While I was wondering if something was wrong, she collapsed and was in critical condition, unconscious.

She survived, but became bedridden, her speech became slurred, and she worsened.

For the past few years, her memory has been vague, and although she sometimes reacts and says words, they don't form sentences.

Sometimes when she speaks, she even says "Who?" to our daughter.

It's not like she has a limited life expectancy, but I was told she wouldn't live a long life.

Therefore, I was truly happy that she replied like that.

During middle school, my daughter would go to the infirmary or hole up in my wife's hospital room, and we had many big fights at home.

When it came time for her coming-of-age ceremony, as if she remembered,

"I'm sorry, I didn't go to middle school when things were tough. I thought Mother would die without me knowing. I'm an idiot (lol)"

"Maybe it's also because I snapped when some jerk called Mother a crazy old hag. I should have just ignored them, but they were just kids"

"But, I saved the emails, recorded them, and went all the way to the principal's office to make sure it affected that jerk's report card! It was a masterpiece, the face of that jerk crying lol"

Hearing things like this, realizing for the first time that my daughter was also doing her best is another reason why I thought I had to act this time.

A 14-year-old girl, I understand it was natural for her to be anxious...

I am truly a useless father.

I intend to spend the rest of my life holding in my heart that I love my family, even though I am inadequate.

904: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 20:23:37.70
>>899
A family that abused a wife from a farming background and then called the wife who collapsed from illness "trash" lol
It seems your parents' home completely lacked warm interactions with the motive of wanting to cherish and care for her.

You were also quite contaminated and lost your human heart. How pitiful.
Your wife is the one who added color to a life that seemed like it would end in gray.
How much of a miracle that is. You lucky person!

905: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 20:32:39.62
>>904
That's quite a condescending attitude

908: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 20:44:22.46
It is a fact that my parents' home was truly terrible...
It was a house with old-fashioned ideas.

I think it was good that I cut ties, and I have never regretted it.

I am deeply grateful to my wife, who kept saying she wanted to marry me even after things like that happened.

I'm sorry for making it sound like an unnecessary addition.

I'll go back to just being a reader.

909: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 21:37:43.12
>>908
GJ
Please cherish her.

910: Anonymous. 2013/03/07 (Thu) 22:12:34.14
A love marriage with a 20-year-old farmer's daughter at 37.
If you had married a woman your parents liked, as they intended, you wouldn't be the "I love you"-saying you are today.
908, who stuck with the woman he fell in love with even if it meant cutting ties with his parents, is admirable.
So, you don't have to rush, just be happy with your wife slowly.

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