Wife addicted to worship and fortune telling, husband lives under heavy pressure

Hung has a beautiful, resourceful, and skillful wife. It would be perfect if she weren’t superstitious. His wife believes everything related to feng shui, horoscopes, fortune telling…

I remember when Hung made a profit in business, he bought a car as a surprise for his wife. He thought she would be happy, but she scolded him for buying a car without checking the date. Hung thought it was simple, a car is just a means of transportation, if you have money, you buy it. But his wife had a different reason. She said that if he bought it on a bad day, the car would be unlucky and would not help the owner go on good journeys. Not to mention, a car bought on an unlucky day could cause an accident and kill him.

No matter what Hung said, his wife forced him to choose a date and then buy it again. Hung was really fed up. He tried to talk to her gently but she didn't listen, he tried to flatter her but she didn't listen, and if she was stressed, the family would not be happy. From then on, Hung learned to tell his wife before buying anything so that she could ask someone to... choose the date.

His wife goes to fortune tellers for everything, which puts Hung under pressure.

Buying and selling is like that, but bigger things like building a house, changing jobs, having children… are even more important to the wife. Many people laugh when they say it, but even in that matter, she watches every day so that the child can be born in the month, the year.

This time, Hung was stressed because his wife had been busy looking for a fortune teller all Tet holiday. Just two days ago, he heard her say that this year she had some unlucky star and she had to invite the fortune teller to come and perform a ritual to ward off bad luck.

Remembering the time his wife brought a shaman home last year, Hung was so bored that he went out. Unexpectedly, during that same session, the shaman said that the rockery he loved was in the wrong position, and that the couple did not have the Water element, so it needed to be destroyed.

Believing the "teacher's" words, his wife secretly put it up for sale. Little did she know that it was a gift from his old boss, a place for him to raise fish and drink tea to relax. When he came home from work in the afternoon, he was shocked to see that the workers had come to dismantle it. He was even more shocked when his wife sold it for a cheap price.

Hung was furious. He told his wife directly about superstition, seriously hoping that she would stop believing in fortune telling, feng shui, and horoscopes... which were a waste of money and time, and would bring anxiety to her, causing more turmoil in the family.

But before he could finish, his wife burst into tears. She said who she was doing all this for, her husband, her husband's family, and her deceased ancestors. She did it to show her filial piety, to be blessed, and to wish for peace and prosperity for her family.

Because of superstitious things, the couple quarreled.

After a while of whining and crying, Hung's wife angrily went into the room. Hung was frustrated. He had nothing to be upset about with his wife, except for this fortune-telling thing. Up until now, he had always indulged his wife. Even when it came to wearing clothes of the colors that his wife believed in, he would wear them. Even when it came to what color to paint the house, what chairs and tables to use, how to worship, he would listen to her.

But he found his wife to be more and more unreasonable. Every year, a few days after Tet, his wife and her close friends pooled money and spent time renting a car to go to all the temples to pray for good luck and perform various rituals. She ignored the children and cooking for the family, focusing only on preparing superstitious rituals that the "witches" had set up.

This time, knowing that his wife was angry, Hung would not coax her. He had pampered his wife for many years. Not only did he feel tired every time his wife went to see a fortune teller or invited a shaman home, but he also felt constant pressure because his wife trusted fortune tellers and shamans too much.

Pressured by having to live according to the "teachers", having to watch the time, choose the day, choose the month, have to arrange the furniture, the family to suit... Hung decided to make it tough this spring, he planned to tell his wife all his feelings. He hoped his wife would change, before the boredom turned him into a husband who didn't want to come home.

According to Laborer