'My mother-in-law chucked out my belongings - I ordered her to leave'
A mum-to-be says she was furious after her mother-in-law took it upon herself to clear out a load of her personal belongings, without asking for her permission first. According to this expectant mum, she has always had a fairly "decent relationship" with her mother-in-law, who she regards as "sweet and warm", if a bit "over-controlling".
For example, while staying at their home on previous occasions, she will completely take over the kitchen, insisting upon cooking all meals, and refusing to let anyone else help. Unfortunately, while staying with them ahead of the baby's arrival, the "overprotective" grandmother-to-be has stepped over a line, leaving her daughter-in-law infuriated.
According to this 36-year-old woman, her mother-in-law was initially supposed to stay for six months to help them get ready for the baby's arrival, and has become "pretty emotionally invested". A few days into her stay, however, she began cleaning up the house, and set about chucking away items she regarded as potentially "dangerous".
Taking to Reddit, the pregnant woman wrote: "I like collecting things from garage sales and such. Things like little sculptures and books and baskets, stuff a lot of people would consider utter junk. Our house is definitely overstuffed, but it's reasonably tidy and doesn't seem like a hoarder's house or anything. My mother-in-law, on the other hand, likes everything surgically clean. Yesterday I came home from work to find the house like a war zone, she went through my cabinets and cleared out everything she considered junk, and had apparently made several trips to Goodwill before I got home. I was really angry and I asked her why she would ever do this. She said the house has to be tidy for the baby, and that it would be 'dangerous' for the baby to be in my cluttered house."
She continued: "Then she took the next huge bag of stuff and tried to walk out the door. I kind of lost it, and I told her she could get out right now. She was shocked that I was serious, and she said she doesn't have anywhere to go and it's so late. It was about 9:30. I booked her a hotel room and called a taxi."
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Around one hour later, her husband returned home, and reacted furiously when she informed him what she'd done, accusing her of being "ungrateful" and "disrespectful" towards his mother. She now wonders whether she might have taken things too far, and has reached out to fellow Reddit users for their thoughts on the matter.
One person warned: "Your mother-in-law, though well-meaning, needs to respect your boundaries. This is how she acts with your things. How will she behave around a newborn? Will she uphold your rules about your baby? Will she think her ways are better and maybe endanger your baby? She wasn't just helping. She was moving into your territory and claiming it as her own." Another agreed: "What your mother-in-law did crossed every line for a guest in anyone's home, and, in fact, you could make a very good case for theft of your belongings. If your mother-in-law truly wanted to help you, she would have asked before she touched a single thing and would have accepted it if you told her 'no' for any action she wanted to do."
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