07/13/2026
Imagine confiding in your mother-in-law as your marriage to her son is falling apart, and she positions herself as a girls girl, pretending she’s on your side and calling you her “forever daughter in love” while giving you advice that supported and enriched her son and completely sabotaged your life, your finances and dug a deeper hole for you.
At the time, I felt like I was being understood and supported by the woman who knew him best, but it took me years of processing and therapy to realize she was a part of the heist! Here’s the thing, she was tired of supporting him and knew that us falling apart meant that he would have no choice but to come back to her home. She did not want that because he was a burden to her, she was tired of sacrificing to support this grown man, and he was causing issues in her new marriage. As far she was concerned, THIS! NEEDED! TO WORK! She was ready to reclaim her life and finally get rid of him for GOOD.
So she advised in a way that supported his enrichment, despite what it was taking from me. She knew and used intimate details against me and pretended she was an ally. She helped her son use and abuse me, because she saw in me what her son did: I was a FOOL and had no one around me protecting me from him/them. But unaccountable manipulators raise unaccountable manipulators. He learned from the BEST!
