She Told Her Husband That She’d Rather Get Divorced Than Have Her Mother-In-Law Live With Them
This woman is married and has a 2-year-old son with her husband, who also happens to be in the military. So, next year, they may have the opportunity to move closer to their hometown.
While this may sound like a dream for some, she is not exactly excited because her mother-in-law found out and now wants to live with them and travel practically wherever they go.
She has no idea why her mother-in-law is even interested in that, as her home is already completely paid off. That means the only bills her mother-in-law is paying are for basic utilities.
On top of that, her husband and his mother can’t even get along for more than 30 minutes at a time.
Yet, her mother-in-law claimed to be “thinking about the future” and wanted to discuss the possibility of living together the next time they visited home.
“And my husband thinks this could be a great idea because she would be able to have a relationship with our son and could watch him while I go back to work,” she explained.
To be clear, she admitted to feeling bad about not contributing any money to their household in the past. When she shared this with her husband, though, he still wanted her to stay at home, mainly because their son is non-verbal and recently diagnosed with autism.
But while she might have personally felt guilty, her being a stay-at-home mom didn’t put any strain on their finances.
“We are financially stable, and me being a stay-at-home mom has never been a stressor in our marriage. So I don’t feel like we need my mother-in-law here for that,” she reasoned.
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Her husband also tried to say that his mother stays in her room often anyway, so it wouldn’t “be any different” having her in their home. She, on the other hand, wholeheartedly disagrees and cannot understand why her husband believes moving in together would be a good idea.
At the end of the day, she married her husband, not him and his mother, as a package deal, and she wants it to stay that way. She told him that, too.
“Our home is my comfort where our little family can be fully in peace together. I would rather be divorced than take in an in-law or even my own parents forever,” she said.
She clarified how, of course, if her mother-in-law had health issues or couldn’t live alone and needed help, that would be a different story. However, that’s simply not the case.
Her husband is not what she calls a “mommy’s boy” at all, either, which is why she suspects the whole living arrangement wouldn’t last.
“They will both go well over a month without talking to each other, not even a simple text,” she revealed.
“I am usually the one to say, ‘It’s been a while since you heard from your mom. You should give her a call.”
Conversely, she talks to both of her parents every single day and loves them to pieces. Despite that, she’d never even want to live with her own parents unless they genuinely needed assistance.
Still, she and her husband obviously have differing opinions on this situation, and now, she’s wondering if saying she’d rather get divorced than live with her mother-in-law made her a jerk.
Does her mother-in-law moving in sound like it would work out? What advice would you give her?
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