She Moved Next Door to Her In-Laws—And Says It’s Been a Nightmare From the Start
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Every family dynamic is different.
Some are warm and fuzzy…and then there are families like this one…
Yikes!
A young woman opened up about why her decision to live next to her in-laws has been a monumental mistake…
And it sounds like she and her husband need to get out of there as soon as they can.
Check out what she had to say.
DON’T HAVE YOUR FAMILY AS YOUR NEIGHBORS.
“One of the decisions I regret most was moving in next to my in laws.
I (20F) and my husband (23M, we will call him D) moved into a rental next to his father’s house. We will call his father T and T’s girlfriend we will call A.
It all started the literal day we moved in (about a year and a half ago). We had been living in our car (T and A knew this) for a few months. I had to work on our move in day, so T offered to help my husband carry our stuff into the house.
Well…you’re right…
A stood there and told D, “Wow. Looks like you live in your car” in a snobby tone. Kind of hit hard because…. Well. We were living in the car.
Fast forward to June of this year. There was a situation in which D’s car got towed (we wanted it to be gone, we didn’t care, we knew it was happening).
T called D and we all went outside. A started yelling at me because apparently having one vehicle (I’m a stay at home mom with an infant) makes me a bad wife and mom.
What is wrong with these people?!?!
She called me fat, etc.
Said D shouldn’t have gotten a new job (making double what his previous job with T paid him) and that’s why the car was getting towed etc. I mean, any competent person knows it takes months for a car to be taken. He started the new job literally like 2 days prior.
A few weeks after that, I noticed the amount of security cameras on their porch (small porch) went from 2 to 4.
T also installed a camera facing our fenced backyard/back porch area and directly into my kitchen window. We tried texting him about it, no answer. We decided to just leave it be and entirely covered the window.
Today, after the trash went, I moved my trash can back where it goes. I put it at the edge of my house line (in town, so the houses are connected but you can clearly see where my house ends and his house starts). I went inside.
Talk about being passive aggressive…
T came home and shoved it up against my steps. I don’t put it against my steps because when I walk out with the baby, I can’t get down the steps. Duh. So I scooted it back.
He came outside and threw my trash can in the sidewalk in front of our houses. D went back outside to confront him about it and T yelled that he doesn’t want the trash to stink up his house.
We’ve lived here for a year. It hasn’t been an issue before now. He has his recycling bin directly next to our trash can. He also has his 2 garbage bins on the other side of his porch (so, his trash doesn’t stink but apparently mine does?)
He also had put a decently sized piece of styrofoam in my trash can when I went on vacation over 4th of July. (I don’t have cameras but it’s a relatively quiet street so I know it was him).
T and A also park all 4 of their vehicles in front of our houses and it blocks the street to see when I pull out of my driveway. I’ve almost gotten t-boned a couple times with my baby in the car because I can’t see.
He also will park up onto the curb to be “out of the way”.
When I have guests over they have to park at the bank across from us, and when I get any groceries delivered I have to tell them the same.
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How do I keep from going insane?
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How petty can I legally be?
T won’t talk to us and I refuse to speak to A.”
A reader reacted on Reddit.
Yeah, this a really rough.
You’d think that in-laws would be helpful and respectful…
But I guess these folks just don’t get it!
They need to get out of this situation and find a new place to live ASAP.
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