Under One Roof

We are not on speaking terms with my uncle’s wife. Do you know why? Because my dad reprimanded her and her cousin (who happens to be the wife of another uncle) for allowing her 14-year-old daughter to have a relationship with her teacher! My uncle is working abroad and he doesn’t know anything about it. My dad, as the second to the eldest, felt like it was his duty to correct what he deemed to be something wrong.

I don’t know with you but it really bothered us that a teacher is having a relationship with his student. And even more, that a mother of a minor would approve of the relationship. But when my dad talked to my uncle’s wife about it, she was defensive and even asked her cousin, another uncle’s wife I mentioned, to back her up.

We don’t know if we should tell my uncle working abroad about it. My dad is thinking of reporting the teacher to the school administration. Or talking to my cousin. But I told my dad to just stop and let them be. If the mother allows her daughter, who are we to say no to it?

We just feel it’s so very wrong. And we pity my uncle who’s working so hard away from his family to give them a good life.