SHE KICKED OUT HER MOTHER-IN-LAW OUT, WHEN SHE THREW AWAY THE THINGS SHE HAD COLLECTED, FOR HER HOBBY

A woman had stated that she kicked out her 72-year-old mother-in-law, in the middle of the night, because she had threw away the things she collected from garage sales, etc. For her hobby. She had shared her story on Reddit and wanted some advice from Redditors.

She had started her story as she said that her mother-in-law was doesn’t care about boundaries, as she likes to control things. “I (36F) live with my husband (41M). I have a decent relationship with my MIL, compared to a lot of the horror stories I hear from friends, she’s quite sweet and warm. She is, however, a little… over-controlling? Overprotective? I’m not sure of the exact word, but she has very strong ideas about things and no sense of boundaries. For example, when she stays at our house she takes over the kitchen completely and insists on cooking all our meals. She cooks wonderfully, but she won’t let me help her at all, and puts everything away in the wrong places – and then insists that her way is more logical.”

The original poster, (OP), had stated that she had no problem with her, and even likes her. And stated that she is currently pregnant with their daughter, as she finds it as a miracle. “She only really comes for holidays, though, and I do like her a lot. So I don’t mind putting up with these mild annoyances. I’m currently pregnant with our little girl, who will be born in a few months. This is a miracle – I really didn’t think it would happen, especially so late, but we got lucky.”

As her mother-in-law heard the news, she stated that she will come and help them organize their house. “When my MIL heard, she was super excited and said she would come over to help us get ready for the baby. She offered to stay for the next 6 months or so to help out, because my husband and I both work long hours and it will be hard to handle the baby on top of this. She is also pretty emotionally invested in this, because she truly sees herself as part of our family. She arrived a few days ago and set herself up, then she started with the cleaning.”

Then she explained that she has a hobby, where she likes to collect stuff from garage sales, and different objects, structures. And her MIL is the opposite of her, whom she finds it disturbance. “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 MIL, on the other hand, likes everything surgically clean.”

When she came home, she saw that her MIL had threw out everything that she collected. She had stated that it would be dangerous to be near those objects for the baby. “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.”

Then she said that she needs to leave, and booked a hotel room and a taxi for her, which made her husband mad about the situation. “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. My husband came home an hour later, and when I told him what happened, he was furious with me. He says I disrespected his mom and was ungrateful for everything she’s trying to do for us.”

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