[ENG] Meier family

My name is Peter Meier. I am 52 years old and live in our end-of-terrace house together with my wife Sandra, 44, and our two pretty daughters Wiebke, 22, and Anna, who just celebrated her 18th birthday. Next door in the basement lives our uncle Uwe, 64.

Uncle Uwe is my father's brother and has lived with us for almost 25 years. It goes without saying that he has become an integral part of our daily family life. When we built our house back then, our possibilities were very limited and Uwe, as a trained electrician, offered to help out. Then came his divorce and one thing led to another, so that Uwe finally moved into our small basement apartment. Since then it brings us a regular extra income and Uwe a family connection - even if he maintains a good relationship with his ex-wife and daughter and visits both regularly.

In fact, things are so good with each other that Uwe eats with us and his laundry is also done by Sandra. In return, Uwe takes care of all the electrics as well as other little things around the house. Even our vacations we spent together ... everybody understands each other very well and the mood is mostly cheerful ... not very surprisingly Uwe is also often hugged and kissed by "my" wives.

For me it is always astonishing how well Uwe gets along with all the people around him; unfortunately, this is usually difficult for me. I suspect that this is due to his open nature and not least his job as the owner of a small corner store a few streets away. So, he inevitably has to maintain good contacts with all the people - mostly the women - in the vicinity and apparently, he finds it easy to do so. The store is humming. Uwe usually ignores me or looks at me condescendingly with a "funny" look - but I am also the grey mouse in this family circus.

I myself am employed as an accountant in a large corporation. Certainly not an exciting job, but I can work at home, which I appreciate as an introverted numbers person.

During my studies I met Sandra at one of the few parties I went to. But how I could convince Sandra of me and keep her is always a mystery to me. I am certainly not a beauty, unlike her, rather the average, 1.82m tall with ash blond hair - which is also slowly becoming less and less. Instead, my belly has developed more and more in recent years; which is certainly also due to the fact that I sit too much in front of the PC and do too little (that is, no) sports. In fact, I rather stay in the background and enjoy watching my beloved family living their daily life.