Her Partner’s Family Intentionally Tossed All Of Her Sentimental Christmas Decorations, Even Though They Offered To Let Her Store Those Things In Their Home
A woman who is in her 20s has a partner who is also in her 20s. She’s been with her partner for 4 years now, and they live in an extremely tiny apartment together.
Due to the size of their apartment and the fact that they can’t really splurge on storage space, her partner’s parents offered to let her keep her things at their house.
She accepted that offer, which she said was very gracious of them, and so, she neatly packed up her belongings into totes and carefully labeled them before taking them over to her partner’s parents.
“This stuff was mostly sentimental and Christmas items, many of them from my childhood and reminders of when my parents were still together and my grandfather was still alive,” she explained.
“Most of it was passed down to me, and I treasured those items so dearly because Christmas is my favorite time of year, and many of the items I owned came from family that isn’t around anymore.”
“My mom let us know recently that she had plenty of room in her storage for anything we wanted to save, so we decided to take my Christmas stuff & my partner’s items from my partner’s family, use it to decorate for the holidays, and then permanently relocate it into my mom’s storage unit.”
She and her partner then stopped by her in-law’s house to get their things that were in storage there.
She was absolutely shocked to discover that her belongings were missing, yet her partner’s things were still right there.
She had labeled everything she brought over, and she found it extremely suspicious that her stuff was gone.
volurol – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Adding to that, her in-laws really weren’t concerned at all that her sentimental belongings were not there where she had left them.
At the end of the day, her in-laws told her to come back the following weekend and they planned on helping her search the house for her belongings.
When she and her partner arrived the following weekend, her in-laws were completely MIA.
Instead of helping her look for her things, her in-laws went shopping. Her partner helped her, and they tore the whole house apart, but they didn’t find a single one of her missing items.
“I’ve been devastated ever since. We don’t have the funds or means to replace anything. In addition, it was irreplaceable— the sentimental value of that stuff cannot be replaced EVER,” she said.
“It completely broke my heart and I knew it was going to put a damper on my holiday season— I love to decorate for the holidays and knowing all the memories of my childhood were just given away was infuriating.”
Song_about_summer – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual decorations
She always worried that her in-laws didn’t like her, and she feels like the fact that they intentionally got rid of her sentimental items only confirms that fear.
Her partner confronted her in-laws, who refused to help replace anything they got rid of.
They also then tried to say they insisted multiple times that she needed to come to get her stuff out of their house, but they never said that to her or her partner at all.
“I truly don’t know how to feel, and my partner and I are shocked and saddened,” she continued. “I have had an incredibly hard year between my mental health, finances, and overall wellbeing.”
“I’ve only recently gotten to a point where I feel a semblance of normalcy, and I was just so excited to immerse ourselves into the holiday season and end the year on a high note. That has been taken away from us, and with no remorse.”
She really isn’t sure what to do from here, and she does not want to simply let this monumental issue go.
How would you feel in this situation?
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