Her Mother-In-Law Swiped Her Engagement Ring So She Told Her It Was Cursed To Get It Back
A 26-year-old woman just got engaged, and her mother-in-law is, well, the worst. She and her fiancé are in the middle of renovating a section of their home, and her mother-in-law has a key to their place.
Her mother-in-law is a constant fixture in her home. Although her mother-in-law constantly claims to be there so she can assist them in cleaning the house, she’s actually inserting herself into their lives so she can just spy or keep tabs on them.
Anyway, one day this young woman removed her engagement ring and placed it inside a dish she has especially for her jewelry.
She always takes her ring off prior to heading to her martial arts class, and that was her reason for removing it that day.
When she came back home after her class, she was surprised to see her ring was missing. She questioned her mother-in-law about the ring, and her mother-in-law owned up to swiping it.
Her mother-in-law said she had brought it to a local jeweler so she could have it cleaned up.
“She looked super smug about it and when I asked which jeweler, she pretended she couldn’t remember,” she explained.
“I didn’t want to give her the satisfaction of having a reaction to it so I just let it slide for a couple of days.”
Several days later, she brought up her ring, but her mother-in-law was still being weird about it.
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The icing on the cake was that her mother-in-law mentioned she couldn’t recall where she had dropped off her ring, before adding there was too much on her plate to go get it back from the jeweler.
In response to her mother-in-law’s weirdness, she remarked that she hoped nothing happened to the jeweler that had her ring.
“She asked what I meant, and I told her that my superstitious Brazilian grandmother had performed some traditional ritual on it that’s usually known to curse anyone who takes or handles the ring other than the owner,” she said.
“She looked uneasy and asked me a couple more questions about this ritual and I made some story up about how my mother’s ring had been taken by a burglar who was crushed by a pillar of cement on his way out of the house.”
Obviously, this was a complete lie, but she told it to her mother-in-law in the hopes she could get her ring back, and she did.
The following day, her ring reappeared back in the jewelry dish, but it did not appear to be clean at all.
“A week later, I receive an abusive call from her saying she’d been in a minor car accident and she was blaming me and my “witch doctor” grandmother, saying she was now cursed for having touched it,” she continued.
“I passed the phone to my fiancé who tried to calm her down, but she was hysterical. I told my fiancée what I had told her, and he scolded me a bit because we both know how she is and I should have known she’d react this sort of way.”
Now, this all happened around a week ago, and since then, her mother-in-law has been saying horrendous things about her to the man she’s about to marry, and her mother-in-law is additionally ignoring her.
While her fiancé does see how crazy his mom is being, she’s thinking she may have added unnecessary fuel to the fire by coming up with the story about the curse in the first place.
One good thing that came out of this is that her fiancé knows he needs to put some boundaries in place with his mom, and he started by taking back the key she had to their house.
At the same time, he remarked to his mom that she shouldn’t be concerned with the curse since it only works on people that have bad intentions.
How would you deal with this?
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