Their oldest son was born six months after Nelly and Ron got married. Ron was overseas when Nelly gave birth. At first she got a lot of help from her mother and her mother-in-law. But after a short time, they left her to deal with the baby alone.
Her mother Celia needed to go back to work as she was unable to get any more days off. But she would come every day to see how her daughter was managing. However, her mother-in-law preferred meeting her friends instead of helping her with the new baby. Besides, she didn’t like Nelly which was an understatement. From the first time she met her, she thought that her daughter-in-law wasn’t very smart. The one who would baby sit the boy every time Nelly asked for help, was Daisy.
Daisy didn’t have a social life so she was available to help. Nelly would sometimes ask Daisy to babysit her son and she would go out and socialize with her friends. Nelly complained all the time how hard it was to raise a child when the father isn’t around. Still, this didn’t stop her from having one child after the other. She had 4 children by the time she was 27.
Nelly suffered from post partum depression when she had the 4th child. As a result, Ron requested to serve only in Toronto until her medical condition improved. Due to her condition, Nelly wouldn’t even lift and hold the baby for several months, and the children were neglected. Every time Ron came home from work, he saw Daisy looking after the children.
Daisy was a social worker and was self employed. She took time off whenever she wanted and helped Nelly with the kids. Daisy was a great cook and loved to prepare meals for the family. And Ron really appreciated her help….. She would also eat meals with the family while Nelly would often refuse to come out of the bedroom to eat.
Daisy and Ron would regularly sit and talk after meals, sometimes sharing an after dinner glass of wine together. Celia would visit her grandchildren every evening and noticed that Daisy was there almost every time she visited. This didn’t look right to her but she couldn’t say anything about it because Daisy was there for her grandchildren. It also seemed that the more Nelly was depressed, the more Daisy seemed to flourish.
Celia would beg Nelly to get medical help so that she could return to her family, and could function again as a mother and wife. She was afraid that her daughter was losing Ron, as his attention was shifting away from Nelly towards Daisy.
Celia didn’t know how bad her daughter’s condition was until one day she got a phone call from her son-in-law. He told her she tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pils. Fortunately, she was found on time and was rushed to the hospital where they pumped out the contents of her stomach. After that she was admitted to a psychiatric ward for observation and assessment.
Celia would frequently visit Nelly. And every time she saw her daughter her heart went out to her as she looked lifeless. At the beginning, Ron would visit his wife twice a week. He refused to take his children there because he was afraid that bringing them to the hospital would have a bad effect on them. But over time he visited less often until he stopped visiting her altogether.
What was surprising was that Daisy never went to visit her “best friend.” Instead, she kept going over to the house and basically stepped into Nelly’s shoes. After a while Ron decided to apply to the courts to have full custody of the children. Nelly would have no say in their upbringing if the court granted his request.
The court ruled in his favor. Nelly would go in and out of the psychiatric hospital. She would come home when she felt better. She would then decide to stop taking her medication and her condition would rapidly deteriorate. When Nelly was back at home, she realized that her husband had changed a lot. He would frequently go out at night and barely paid any attention to her.
She also noticed that Daisy would pay them a visit when Ron was at home. So Nelly told Daisy that if she wanted to visit her, she should come to visit when Ron wasn’t at home as the two of them needed their privacy.
In addition, Nelly had the feeling that Daisy had a crush on her husband and didn’t want her around at all. Daisy, who was having an affair with Ron, didn’t want to give up so quickly. She went to Ron and demanded he put his wife in her place. Ron was afraid she would leave and he did as she asked.
He went to his wife and asked her to back off. He told her that Daisy has been a huge help with the children. He said that Daisy also made sure that the household was running smoothly. He added he would like to keep it that way until she recovered. He promised he would get rid of Daisy the minute she was back on her feet……..
With Experience Comes Wisdom 
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