No Way Home
I had been married to Jeremy Yeager for three years, and he had a strict rule.
"We can't lend our money to outsiders. We help out during emergencies, but we don't support them endlessly. This is the bottom line."
Thus, I begged him on my knees when my father needed 60,000 dollars for his gastric cancer surgery.
He remained calm. "If we break this rule today, your entire family will be draining our bank account tomorrow. I have to be responsible for this family."
I sold my dowry to raise the surgery fee and accepted that some boundaries needed to be kept in marriage.
When Jeremy's childhood sweetheart, Celia Marten, returned to the country to start a business and her start-up funds were