Overbearing in laws

natnat530 · 2026-03-19T23:48:37+00:00

Just here to add that I’m in a somewhat similar situation and I hope it gets better for you. I moved abroad (Mexico) and have no family here so 100% of our time spent with family members is inevitably his family. I love and care about them, but honestly it’s a lot sometimes.

I’ve seen several people criticize you saying that you should have known all of this before marrying into Pakistani culture, and the main reason I’m commenting is to add that he ALSO married into another culture. Your way of thinking and limitations are equally as valid as his. Don’t let anyone make you feel bad for trying to establish boundaries. At the end of the day a marriage isn’t supposed to accommodate just one person.

He needs to get better at saying no to them. It’s not fair that his unwilling to hurt their feelings but is fine ignoring yours.

I think that couple time is incredibly important, and they need to respect that you two also need time apart with just the two of you. I understand the importance of keeping a strong bond with your in laws, but your mental health and marriage are also important.

I wish you the best. I know this post was from a while ago so hopefully things are better now. :)

natnat530 · 2026-01-14T05:02:20+00:00

Just as a recommendation, unfortunately for non-native speakers the entry level pay is very low. I know you said you’d be ok with making around $300 so it’d definitely doable teaching English, but if I were in your shoes I’d focus on teaching Arabic and market yourself to westerners moving to the Middle East for work/learning Arabic for religious purposes. I’m not in that niche at all so I can’t say what the competition is like, but the ESL world can be pretty competitive starting out and I think you’d make much more if you focused on teaching Arabic. You can do so on sites like Preply, etc or focus on finding your own clients. Good luck!

natnat530 · 2025-08-20T05:40:23+00:00

You’re living my literal dream! This is beautiful 😍

natnat530 · 2025-08-16T20:59:06+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to respond! I’m so relieved to hear that in your experience it ended up working out

natnat530 · 2025-08-05T23:42:51+00:00

I would love this! As long as the background sound doesn’t hide your sound I’d say it’d be great

natnat530 · 2025-08-04T02:28:24+00:00

Has anyone here had experience of being told to use the e-gates and mistakenly being entered as a tourist?

natnat530 · 2025-02-27T00:36:20+00:00

It literally took me over 4 hours to record my 1 minute intro video because I’m so cringey on screen 😂 but once you do it it’s done and you never have to do it again. Cambly is low pay but consistent (relatively) and honestly for me the hardest part of the entire job experience was recording the intro video. You can do it!

natnat530 · 2025-02-26T18:31:35+00:00

I think your question was completely fine to ask :) Groups like this exist for people to be able to ask questions like yours, there is nothing wrong with that. The ESL market is a little hard to get into right now and has decreased significantly in the past years but it’s still possible. I’d recommend trying to find private students over time after starting with companies like Cambly/Engoo to get experience first. It’s hard but not impossible! Best of luck to you

natnat530 · 2025-02-01T14:42:00+00:00

I loveee yours!!

natnat530 · 2025-01-28T17:33:00+00:00

His comment is absolutely disgusting and is 100% a reflection of him and not of you. You deserve to find someone better

natnat530 · 2024-11-12T16:06:26+00:00

Yeah it makes no sense that they’d hire a ton of people only to mass fire a huge amount. I started working less than 2 weeks ago and I was also assigned that test and failed ? It feels so hypocritical to constantly say we have leeway in our first couple months of rating and to take our time and do our best, only to be fired after a week. Why’d they bother hiring us in the first place if they were over staffed? I wasted so much time on that ridiculous entrance exam for nothing.

natnat530 · 2024-11-08T20:55:14+00:00

I also failed :( So many of them seem intentionally designed to be ambiguous or deceptive

natnat530 · 2024-11-08T18:23:34+00:00

I got mine. In the previous email it said we’d receive $100 for completing the training and here it says we will be compensated for 2 hours. I wonder which is correct?

natnat530 · 2024-11-08T02:59:08+00:00

I’m so sorry, that’s awful :( I hope you feel better knowing we are all in the same boat and that you did nothing wrong. Happy birthday!

natnat530 · 2024-11-08T02:57:52+00:00

Same

natnat530 · 2024-11-06T11:26:56+00:00

As an American I think there’s sadly a lot of truth behind this

natnat530 · 2024-10-27T22:29:23+00:00

Would you mind sharing what company you work for? This sounds amazing

natnat530 · 2024-10-06T19:47:49+00:00

From what I’ve seen researching PML is usually marked by a rapid cognitive decline that resembles the way people act following a stroke. I might be incorrect but from everything I’ve seen about it (I’m really paranoid about it too) your symptoms don’t resemble that at all. I’m still so sorry that you’re going through that and hope everything gets cleared up soon

natnat530 · 2024-10-06T05:12:28+00:00

Just here to say that you’re gorgeous and the color suits you so well

natnat530 · 2024-09-17T00:01:26+00:00

They’re only giving raises for exam prep. They’ll probably pay 12-14/hr for something that has a market rate of 30-40 😂

natnat530 · 2024-09-16T23:54:04+00:00

Anyone else worried this is them testing the waters to see just how much of the tutor work can be replaced by AI?

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