Visiting my girlfriend’s mother in the hospital, she burst into tears and whispered a sentence that left me so stunned I wanted to break up with my girlfriend immediately…

We’ve been in love for almost a year now. Thanh works at a foreign company with a fairly high salary, while I’m just an ordinary technical employee. Thanh already bought an apartment, while my salary is just enough to cover my own expenses. That’s why I really admire her talent and dynamism.

One time, my girlfriend invited me to a restaurant to celebrate her promotion. While we were eating, her mother called. After their conversation, I asked what it was about, and Thanh frowned and said her mother was in the hospital and wanted her daughter to visit.

Hearing that, I asked about her mother’s illness and urged Thanh to visit right away. But she made an excuse about being busy and told me we’d go together on Sunday morning. I found it strange. How could a daughter hear her mother was sick and not show the slightest worry? But I thought maybe she had her own reasons she didn’t want to share, so I didn’t press further.

At 9 a.m. Sunday, I arrived, but Thanh was still sleeping. After I called her many times, she finally got up. While I anxiously urged her to hurry to the hospital, she dragged her feet until 10 a.m. before we got there.

The moment she saw us, her mother’s eyes filled with tears and she choked out: “What have you been so busy with that you haven’t visited your mother for a whole month? Watching everyone else’s children come visit and comfort them every day makes me long for that so much.”

I was in shock at my girlfriend’s indifference toward her mother. Thanh simply said she had been too busy with work to have time for hospital visits. I couldn’t understand how the woman I loved could be like this. Her mother has cancer, yet she left her entirely in the care of doctors and nurses for a month without visiting.

On the way home, I reproached Thanh for being so heartless. She said she resented her mother deeply because, when she was young, her mother had left her to be raised by her grandmother while she remarried another man. Now that she was ill and abandoned by her husband’s family, she wanted her daughter to take care of her.

I told her no matter what mistakes her mother made, she was still the one who gave her life and deserved some gratitude, not cruel neglect.

I thought my girlfriend would take my words to heart, but instead she glared at me and snapped that I had never been in her shoes, so I shouldn’t preach to her. She then stormed off and refused to ride home with me, choosing to take a taxi instead.

Honestly, I’m confused. If she can treat her own mother so coldly, what kind of daughter-in-law will she be later? Will she treat my mother well? What do you all think—should I continue loving her?