Her In-Laws Are Now Homeless After Her Husband Kicked Them Out For Complaining About Having To Pay Rent
This 30-year-old woman and her husband, who’s 32, celebrated some pretty exciting milestones last year. First, they tied the knot, and then, they welcomed their first baby, a girl, into the world.
But sadly, it was only 10 months later that tragedy struck her family, because her mother-in-law and brother-in-law suffered a house fire that caused them to lose everything they owned.
“It was terrible. Of course, without hesitation, we offered our home,” she recalled.
Yet, she and her husband’s act of kindness wound up being a much bigger headache than they anticipated. And in the end, there was such growing tension in her household that they actually left her in-laws homeless and haven’t spoken to them since.
For some background, she and her husband have a three-bedroom home, and accounting for their room, as well as their daughter’s, there was only one extra bedroom for her mother-in-law and brother-in-law, who’s 17.
Regardless, following the fire, she welcomed her in-laws into her house and took their remaining belongings to the laundromat to see what they could salvage. Next, she and her husband turned their foyer into a makeshift bedroom, launched a GoFundMe campaign, and began collecting donations.
Given that her household grew from three to six people, she was forced to purchase another washer and dryer, too. Still, after the first two days, she’d managed to get her in-laws settled in.
“I personally purchased things like phone chargers, pajamas, and other essentials, and I was paid back at a later date when some GoFundMe money became available,” she noted.
As if the house fire wasn’t enough, though, another tragedy unfolded just a few days later. Her husband’s grandmother got sick and was sent to the hospital, so she kept driving her mother-in-law back and forth and helping make medical decisions.
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“Grandma passed away, unfortunately, about two weeks after the house fire. Again, a terrible time,” she said.
Even so, the clock never stops ticking, and once things had settled down more, she and her husband approached his mom to ask for some assistance. They wanted her to begin paying “rent,” which she could claim through her home insurance, to help out with the additional expenses. To be clear, this wouldn’t cost her mother-in-law a penny.
On top of that, after four weeks, they finally tried to nail down a meal schedule because, apparently, she’d spent the first month being the sole person to cook, clean, and purchase groceries and other essentials for the house. But if you couldn’t have guessed, the plan didn’t work out as she’d hoped.
Soon, her household became extremely cramped and tense, especially since her in-laws didn’t clean up their own messes. Moreover, they’d skip weeks they were supposed to cook by going out to eat, which left her and her husband with no food or backup plan.
She finally hit her breaking point when another relative visited from out of town and had the nerve to “scold” her and her husband for how they’d supposedly been mistreating her in-laws.
“He claimed it was ridiculous that we were charging them any rent and that since my mother-in-law had helped her son with college expenses and raised him,” she revealed.
“He also stated that he knew we had been rude to them and treated them badly.”
What really irked her about this situation was how her relative didn’t even talk to her or her husband first. Rather, he seemingly just listened to her in-laws and ran with whatever they were saying.
Anyway, this sparked an intense argument with both her visiting relative and her in-laws, and in the end, her brother-in-law actually screamed in her face. Thankfully, her husband stood up for her and told his brother that he’d need to find somewhere else to stay. Plus, when her mother-in-law tried to get involved, her husband told his mom that she could go as well.
“They left and haven’t returned, and we haven’t spoken in weeks,” she vented.
Now, in the wake of the blow-up, she’s wondering whether leaving her in-laws homeless was justified or makes her a jerk.
Does it sound like she and her husband had already gone out of their way to accommodate her in-laws? Were they acting ungrateful? Do you think her in-laws deserved to lose the privilege of staying at her home?
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