Her Mother-In-Law Dropped Everything To Move Closer After Her Husband Called Her Up To Say He Missed Her One Day, And Now Her Mother-In-Law Is Expecting To Live With Them While She Gets Settled
For those of us who have close relationships with our mothers, moving away from them can be really hard. It’s especially difficult for moms who have to watch their kids move far away.
One woman’s mother-in-law recently dropped everything to move closer to her and her husband because she got one phone call from him saying that he missed her.
She and her husband are in their mid-20s and have been married for five years. They’re from Canada and live on the opposite side of the country from his mother.
A few months ago, her husband had a rough day and decided to give his mom a call. He told her that he missed her.
That call must’ve really struck a nerve with his mom, as she contacted a realtor one week later and decided to sell her house to move closer to them. She thought it was crazy impulsive of her mother-in-law, but she didn’t mind the idea of her being close as she thinks she’s a sweet and wonderful woman.
But like any human being, her mother-in-law has flaws. Her biggest one is that she’s very irresponsible with money. Her mother-in-law is not a rich woman and lives off of disability checks. She’s retired with no job. Yet, the same month she impulsively decided to sell her house, she bought herself a new car.
Her mother-in-law has been irresponsible with money since she knew her husband in college, and she remembered him sending his mom money when he was a broke student.
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The timing for this issue with her mother-in-law is terrible, as she’s already dealing with a crisis with her own mother, who recently was evicted from her home and needed a new place to stay in as well.
“I was angry that his mother would choose to move, already being fully aware that we were hands-deep in trying to find my mother a place to stay,” she said.
“I already set the boundary that mine wouldn’t stay with us. Now both moms were moving at the same time.”
Her mother-in-law is on the road to their side of the country now. They were on the phone with her the other night, and she lost it when her mother-in-law confidently stated that she would be staying with them.
“I immediately took the phone and let her know that wouldn’t be happening, as we had already told her before she was on the road that it wasn’t an option,” she recalled. “She broke down in tears and tried to guilt us into it, so I offered to pay for a hotel for a week or two.”
Now, her mother-in-law is very upset and is accusing her and her husband of making her “uproot” her life even though they never forced her to do anything, especially not sell her home on a whim.
Her mother-in-law’s guilt-tripping and gaslighting are beginning to wear her husband down to the point where he’s leaning more toward letting her stay with them.
Should she let her mother-in-law move in or continue saying no?
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