My House of Resilience
Chapter 4. Ari Changed

In the weeks that followed, Tanti did not get any shopping money at all. At first he could react to it normally, but gradually household needs increased. Slowly his savings began to decrease.

"It's been a few weeks since Mas Ari hasn't given me any money to shop. My savings are running low. When does he come home again? I'll try to ask" said Tanti alone who is currently in her room. He could not possibly share the noise of his household with his two adopted children.

For Ari, the most important thing is his pleasure. He can give a lot of money to his mistress, Marlena. He felt he had to appreciate himself because his work was getting tiring. However, the one who has made him more enthusiastic at work today, who has always been bracing for times of hardship and a lot of work pressure is Marlena, not her wife. It is natural that Ari always gives more attention to the woman than his wife. The relationship is arguably further because Ari gives a chance to Marlena and she also agreed to establish a relationship.

Ari is evil. However, his crime was not known by his wife. Maybe not now, someday his wife will find out. That is why Ari always plays pretty so as not to be caught.

Tanti's life that had looked perfect made some neighbors had envied her. However, who would have thought that getting here and there was all messed up because of her husband.

"Mbak Tanti yahoo, stay at home and take care of children, all needs are met. She also never seems to lack anything. It even looks more prosperous. Oh yeah, I forgot. Mother's husband will work non-stop" said his neighbor at the time. However, Tanti only responded with a smile. They do not know that whatever they see is not entirely true. The nature of life is simply a matter of how one views life.

Tanti could not indulge her husband's disgrace just like that, but it felt already unable to live it. When Tanti talked with her husband, she always tried to keep her two adopted children not knowing so strange financial problems faced today.

The awaited day arrives. Ari returns home with a faint face that makes Tanti go back and forth to ask about the shopping money she never got again.

"Mas, you just got home?" ask Tanti in a soft and gentle voice.

"As you can see," he answered, sounding ogah-ogahan.

"Mas, you must be tired. Here's the bag let me bring it," Tanti's ink.

Ari according to him. It is appropriate for his wife to receive a bag containing dirty clothes, then the next day replace it with a clean one.

A moment to see the face of her husband who was so sad that made Tanti not have the heart to ask directly. He tries to hold it off until the situation seems to improve even though Tanti herself does not know when it will happen? An hour, two hours, or even if there is a miracle 30 minutes later. It was like waiting for a lucky lottery. In fact, Tanti hopes anxious not to get a penny of shopping from her husband.

After lunch because today Ari arrived at home during the day. His children happened to be at his friend's house to follow the group study so that only ari5 and his wife were at home.

"Mas, are you done eating?" tanti asked in a soft voice, but it was still clearly heard in her husband's ears.

"Hemmm, what's wrong?"

Again, the pain felt by Tanti as if her husband was insensitive to the condition of his wife. Tanti tried to be patient again to face her husband.

Silent.

Ari was kneeling his temple as if he was dizzy thinking about his wife's words. With a rough breath then Ari said the thing that made Tanti very disappointed.

"The husband went home spoiled, cared for, served, not questioned for money. I'm a money-making machine, huh?"

Tanti scrimped her clothes. Disappointment was obvious in the depths of his heart. It was like cursing her husband directly, but she tried in a calm way so that her husband would not get angry. Tanti herself did not know what was happening at her husband's workplace. He always works full time, but every time he comes home always reasoned that at work there is a little problem so the salary is not much. Whether it was a lie that her husband told her, Tanti tried to think positively.

"Mas, don't I always go home to do my job as a wife? What is your duty as a husband? Worship for me and the children you never give again. My savings are over, Mom. It's only natural that I ask this. Am I wrong?" ask Tanti in a still soft voice. Again, Tanti could not attack her husband in a harsh voice because that was not her nature.

"Eat him, so that wife don't be wasteful! Must be good at calculating the finances given by the husband. Spending as needed to be durable," he said.

"Mas, less efficient which how? I always put aside the rest of the spending money for the kids and it's all gone. That's why I'm asking for it now."

"Seek on, ask for it. Am I a rich man who owns a money warehouse? If I have money, I will give it. If you don't have money, you want me to give you a leaf?" ari said a little higher.

"Astaghfirullah, Mom. I asked you nicely, loh."

"Makanya be that wife who is cool little! Look, some of my friends' wives are all working and making money. If her husband's condition is like mine, she never asks for money again."

Tanti felt weak in the face of her husband's attitude. As a wife who has no work experience, of course Tanti can not comment anything but down. Her tears just fell without her being able to contain it.

"So the wife is not just crying. Useful for a husband!" snapped Ari.

Tanti's heart beat is getting faster. It felt like he wanted to finish off the man before him. If not for being tied to a husband and wife relationship, Tanti could have done things beyond reason. However, she tried to keep quiet with the drama her husband made. She tried to make whatever whip her husband said to be a useful woman.

The more Tanti was silent, even making Ari emotional. He doesn't usually behave this way, but lately he's been angry more often.

"Don't just rely on your husband's sweat! So working to know what it feels like to make money is hard! You useless wife!"

Tanti was only unwilling to respond to her husband's anger. The disappointment was so great and the thought that began to set plans in the future made Tanti unable to reply to all her husband's words. As a wife who continues to rely on her husband for taking care of the household, apparently it has not seen more than enough in the eyes of her husband. Though the task of the wife at home is very tiring but does not get a salary. He has to work 24 hours a day. In fact, sometimes even falling asleep seems to forget that he is resting.