Daimones by Massimo Marino5/19/2023 ![]() He felt superior due to her humble origins. By the time my parents got married, the business only allowed an average life, just above struggling.įather must have cultivated an inner frustration, and made sure his wife was there to pay the price, too. My father’s family’s small enterprise allowed my grandparents to live a wealthy life.and they dilapidated a fortune. ![]() ![]() For lack of ambition, or just laziness, he resolved to work at the family business. She regretted that decision all her life, putting the blame on a husband she discovered only weeks after they got married was not Prince Charming.įather had squandered a good education. She stopped dreaming about returning to a job she truly loved when I was born three years later. She once had a stable nursing position, which she quit under pressure from both my father and his family when their first child, my brother, was born. Mother was raised in a working-class family in the heart of Italy. ![]() Superfluous expenses didn’t have a place in our single-income budget. We lacked nothing essential, but what we had was not always of the best quality, and we couldn’t afford the latest and greatest. ![]() My family was no different from other middle-class families of that period. We lived in an apartment on the top floor of a seven-story building. ![]()
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