So, I have a friend who comes over to my place and before she leaves, she takes things. She's taken small framed paintings, rugs, pillows, two new sewing kits (one of which was in a box of stuff I wanted to give to a neighbor's daughter), and a lot of booze that she must put into her own water bottles because she doesn't take the booze bottles themselves.Took me awhile to figure that last one out, but it shouldn't have.
I broke off my engagement to my beloved fiancé, "Tristan," in November. Everyone else in my family loves him. I'm pretty sure some of my aunts and uncles love him more than they love me. I told my closest people personally and sent out formal cancellations to everyone else who got a save-the-date. But I haven't seen extended family or childhood friends since I did this, and I will be going home for Christmas. I'm worried everyone's going to be really invasive and weird, especially because I'm embarrassed about the final straw that made me end it. I absolutely should have seen this earlier.
It should have been a red flag when she walked up to the altar beside her son and said, 'You don't have to do this.' Eventually, he told her to sit, and we finished the wedding. She went through my drawers and complained to him about my pricey underwear, only to find out they had been a gift from him.
I contacted Child Protective Services and made a report detailing her plan to 'frame' me as an unfit mother in an attempt to gain custody. My husband and I called my MIL to confront her about what we knew. She immediately went into denial, screaming, crying, and insisting she'd never do something like that, while heavily guilt-tripping my husband. By the end of her 'tantrum,' she managed to tug at his emotions, but I stayed firm.