“Strong” is so overused that it’s too trite to give people a real understanding of who she is and what she has gone through
My sister-in-law, Rena
A Mishpacha reader, as a zechus for a refuah sheleimah for a beloved student, Esther Baila bas Rivka Yenta
Rena, my sister-in-law, is a beautiful young mother of four kids, one of whom has special needs.
Lockdown meant losing most services for her child, working from home, and having to keep the family entertained. All that would have been bearable, as she’s an amazingly loving mother, but she’s had to deal with something that drove her to her physical, mental, and emotional limit: her husband’s multiple addictions.
He was forced to leave their home during lockdown to find better grounds to battle his demons. Rena needed to take full control of their finances (since he wasn’t capable of being trusted), tend to the children (who only knew that Daddy was away on business), try to salvage their crumbling marriage, be supportive of the man who continuously betrayed her trust, and still attend work.
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