My Mother-In-Law Stole My Collection Of Vintage Skeleton Keys r/Relationships

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[00:01:19] Would I Be the Ars or If I Press Charges on My Mother-in-law? The selling by collection

[00:01:24] of vintage skeleton keys to buy a new phone. This is somewhat urgent. My mother-in-law

[00:01:31] is insanely entitled and my wife's enabling of her has made our marriage very hard at

[00:01:36] times. Mother-in-law has come to us for money many times because she keeps spending herself

[00:01:41] into a hole because she's a hoarder. Recently, she came to us wanting me specifically

[00:01:46] to buy a new smartphone and she threw a massive fit when I refused. At quite a collection

[00:01:52] of vintage skeleton keys, my mean good ones. Like ones to particular hotels, to large or

[00:01:58] an eight sergeants, brass, railroad keys etc. My collection as a whole should have easily

[00:02:04] been worth two to three thousand dollars. I kept them in a locked display cabinet but

[00:02:09] yesterday I came home to find my entire collection gone. The cabinet has been forced open. I

[00:02:15] checked the CCTV for the living room and saw my mother-in-law force open the cabinet with

[00:02:20] a small crowbar. I called mother-in-law and demanded she return my entire collection. She

[00:02:26] non-shallantly told me she sold the entire collection at a pawn already and used the money

[00:02:30] for a new phone. Then said it was my fault and she had to do it because I wouldn't give

[00:02:35] her the money. My wife was seemingly on my side until I said I was going to call the

[00:02:41] police. Now she's begging me to just drop it and even suggested I just start a new collection.

[00:02:47] A lot of those keys are irreplaceable and I spent ten years building that collection.

[00:02:53] Mother and law has been in trouble in the past but this is the first time I know of that

[00:02:57] she's stolen from us. I need help. Would I be the asshole if I went to the police?

[00:03:03] Hope you then edit and says it hasn't even been an hour and this has been made pretty clear

[00:03:08] to me. I'm calling the police. My wife is at work right now so she won't be here to

[00:03:13] object. Updates takes mother and law and go to there into admitting everything she did,

[00:03:19] which pawn shops you went to and how much she sold the collection for. So now I've got

[00:03:23] plenty of evidence. I'll update again on a separate post on my profile later.

[00:03:28] The belongs says to OP have you filed the report to the police? What did your wife say?

[00:03:34] Opie says yes I filed the report mother and law got arrested wife and I fought. She walked

[00:03:40] out in his carolly at a motel. One reply says stand your ground if you step back now both

[00:03:45] your wife and mother and law will know they can walk over you for the rest of your life.

[00:03:50] OP says I'm standing it, I'm pretty sure this marriage is over.

[00:03:54] Opie had some background information about their relationship and says I'm 29 and she's

[00:03:59] 28. We've been married two years together for five. My mother wasn't nearly the night

[00:04:04] mess she is now till after I married my wife and my wife showed no red flags till after

[00:04:09] we tied the knot. Looking back on it, that was very likely intentional. That I've been

[00:04:14] slapped out of the fog I finally realised how fed up with them both I am. I was just

[00:04:19] in stupid denial before. Not anymore. I think the best way to describe it was like pulling

[00:04:24] a tooth. Lots of pain then sudden relief. I'm relieved now that I realise I want to end

[00:04:29] this marriage. Vegetable quad says to Opie not the arsehole. Opie I know mother and law broken

[00:04:35] to the cabinet but how did she get into the house? You think there was a chance that your wife

[00:04:39] is involved? OP says my wife unilaterally gave her mother a key some time ago. That's how

[00:04:45] she got in. She just didn't have a key to the cabinet. Someone says to Opie did you get

[00:04:50] your keys back? OP says the police currently have them. OP then comes in with another small

[00:04:56] update on their own profile and says my wife bailed out her mother with our shared money.

[00:05:02] This is just a small update. I plan on a big one in roughly a week but I'm taking some time off

[00:05:07] work, locking down my credit and I've got an appointment for consultation with a divorce lawyer tomorrow.

[00:05:12] I'm honestly surprised I got one this soon. No I don't have the keys back yet. Police still

[00:05:18] have them but they'll be returned soon. I think they have to go through it all and compare it to

[00:05:22] the documentation I provided. But my wife and I had a big fight because she took money to bail out

[00:05:27] her mother and pay off the pawn shop from our joint bank account. I'm removing any money I have

[00:05:32] in that account tomorrow. My wife can have what's left, that was all hers. I haven't been sleeping well

[00:05:38] and the stress has given me migraines but I'm determined to power through this. A lot of advice to Opie

[00:05:45] suggesting you know locking down your house, changing the locks that you're doing the right thing

[00:05:50] with a divorce lawyer and Opie says you know they're not backing down from this etc. Some people

[00:05:54] are asking for picks of the skeleton keys which I think we do have in a moment.

[00:05:59] Because Opie added a very very tiny post on it which says I got my collection back.

[00:06:03] I got my skeleton key collection back from the police so I'll try to post some pictures of some of them.

[00:06:09] And as keys go, they're probably the coolest keys that I've ever seen. I don't know much about

[00:06:14] skeleton keys. All I know is, and I don't know if it's just like a movie thing that they can open

[00:06:19] multiple doors and stuff like that. A little cool side quest topic though. Around Christmas time

[00:06:24] we got a family member like a lock picking set and it's the most fun. Honestly, Opie then comes in

[00:06:31] with another post which is sort of like an update and a bit like the other post with additional

[00:06:36] detail as well so you know stick it on two times speed if you want to. This was originally supposed

[00:06:41] to be just a normal update or if my original post was removed and I provided little updates before.

[00:06:46] So I'm posting a big update that's also a bit of a compilation. I also had a character limit

[00:06:51] before so I can provide more detail now though this got way longer than I expected. I apologise for

[00:06:56] that. My mother-in-law is insanely entitled, my wife's enabling behaviors made our marriage

[00:07:01] very hard at times. Mother-in-law has come towards for money a lot because she keeps spending

[00:07:06] herself into a hole since she's a hoarder and a shopper-holic. The house is full of garbage,

[00:07:11] junk and unopened stuff she never uses. The house is rodent invested too. Just one semi-clean room

[00:07:18] in the whole building and it's the master bedroom. She's mogged it up like a little studio apartment

[00:07:23] with a futon to sleep on and uses a couch, an entertainment centre with TV and streaming

[00:07:28] and a makeshift kitchen consisting of an adjoining bathroom and mini-friggin a microwave.

[00:07:34] Mother-in-law is also overweight because she eats out a lot. Recently, Mother-in-law came to us

[00:07:39] wanting me specifically to buy her a new smartphone as an unprompted gift and she threw a massive fit

[00:07:44] when I refused. I mean a child temper tantrum kind of fit. Why did you want a new phone so suddenly?

[00:07:51] Her's was two years old. That's literally it. As far as I know, it still worked fine. Even my wife

[00:07:57] has confirmed this but Mother-in-law was resolute that she deserved a new phone. And before leaving,

[00:08:03] Mother-in-law yelled at us that we're supposed to be pampering her now she's an old woman.

[00:08:07] She's 53. My wife also didn't want to buy her mother the phone because she gave her money

[00:08:12] not long before to make sure her bills were paid. Hopi then adds a paragraph about the skeleton

[00:08:18] keys, what happened, how she broke in the CCTV etc. And then continues my wife was seemingly on my

[00:08:25] side until I said I was going to call the police. She begged me to just drop it and even suggested

[00:08:29] I just start a new collection. I refused to let it go. Because a lot of those keys are not only

[00:08:34] expensive they're irreplaceable. I spent 10 years building that collection but my wife kept blowing

[00:08:40] up at me and telling me to just let it go. So I slept in the guest room that night and

[00:08:45] sawed online help the next day when my best friend told me to try Reddit. I've been a lurker before

[00:08:50] but making an account wasn't hard. My mother-in-law has been in trouble in the past but this was the first time

[00:08:56] I know of this shit stolen from us. I needed help so I asked here. The resounding advice finally made

[00:09:01] me pull my head out of my bum to realise that I was the only one keeping my marriage afloat

[00:09:06] and that would likely never get any better if my wife wasn't on my side when our own mother

[00:09:10] still something irreplaceable from me. Now to answer some quick questions I got before,

[00:09:15] one how to mother and look it into the house. My wife gave her a key when we moved in. That's why

[00:09:21] two why did I have CCTV cameras in the living room? Really. Wouldn't you do that if you had

[00:09:26] something valuable on display there? Three is mother and law on drugs, no idea she's always been crazy

[00:09:32] or did mother-in-law steal from us before. Not that I've been able to tell

[00:09:37] I've checked everything I could think of. Five what kind of phone did mother and law get?

[00:09:41] Not a clue but probably one of the cheapest smartphones with the amount of money she got selling

[00:09:46] unless she's on a payment plan. Six did my wife use my money to bless say to her mother before?

[00:09:53] Yes she did. We primarily have separate accounts but we do have a joint account we pay the bills with

[00:09:58] so it's not used for savings. In two years of marriage I'd say it happened roughly five times.

[00:10:03] Every time my wife took money from the joint account for her mother she always replaced it on the

[00:10:07] next payday, though in hindsight I think she only did so because she knew I'd never let it go

[00:10:13] because she would always have an attitude with me for a few days after. I was in a bad marriage

[00:10:18] fog before but this whole situation has snapped me right out of it. Seven will I lock down my credit

[00:10:24] already I have so I'm not sure my wife or mother will be so stupid to do something like that

[00:10:29] after mother and law was recently arrested. Back to what happened that day. At least did come and

[00:10:35] take my statement a bit over an hour after I called the non-emergency line. I had video footage

[00:10:40] in a documentation of my collection ready and then there were some texts I went out of my way to

[00:10:45] get from mother and law to bathe her into a confession. I wanted as much evidence as possible so she

[00:10:50] couldn't light up a lease. I texted her demanding she got my collection back, she actually

[00:10:56] lulled and told me not a chance and even boasted that she thought I was a pathetic son in law

[00:11:01] and that my key collection was tacky anyway. I told her to at least tell me what pawnshop she sold

[00:11:06] the keys to so I could buy them back and how much they paid her for them. And the dimwit admitted it

[00:11:12] all right away with glee in text and everything I needed for the police before they even showed up.

[00:11:18] The cops took the whole matter more seriously than I thought. I was worried they'd call it a

[00:11:22] civil matter since the thief was my mother-in-law and she had a key to the house but they arrested

[00:11:27] mother-in-law before long and police went to the pawnshop before it closed to retrieve my collection.

[00:11:33] I got it all back from the police after a couple of days and for the moment I put the

[00:11:37] collection in a safe secure place that knowing you could get to. The pawnshop pretty much gave up

[00:11:42] the entire key collection to the police right away like it was a bag of hot potatoes. Though I

[00:11:46] scrutinized every important key brought back as far as I can tell it's all there. That was a huge

[00:11:52] sigh of relief. I took time off work and barely slept for two days because of this all deal.

[00:11:57] Also the cabinet mother-in-law broke into is pretty much a loss since she mangled the lock and

[00:12:02] the doors prying it open. Thankfully it wasn't antique and just something I got used for $50 so

[00:12:08] I'm just going to take it to the dump sooner or later. From her text before I found out mother-in-law

[00:12:13] sold the whole collection to the pawnshop for a whopping total of $300. For a collection of hundreds

[00:12:19] of antique keys valued at two to three grand as a total. At low number felt like a punch in the gut

[00:12:25] to me. Likely the pawnbroker knew how valuable the collection could be as a whole. I mean it's not

[00:12:30] like hitting a jackpot or anything but money is still money especially when a dumb little lady

[00:12:35] walks in with a box of goodies. Anyone else here Mr. Crab's laughing.

[00:12:44] Anyway the cost of the repayment to the shop was supposed to be on mother-in-law but my wife paid

[00:12:50] them back and I joined the account instead. From what the shop owner said mother-in-law told

[00:12:54] her the key collection belonged to her deceased husband and she was sick of the whole collection

[00:12:58] sitting in storage so they believed her but just to be clear she's not a widow. Her husband

[00:13:04] divorced her and she left the state around 15 years ago. Mother-in-law lives off social security

[00:13:09] and food stamps. She also holds garage sales every few months and she often demanded our

[00:13:14] soda and beer cans so she could get the deposit money recycling them. Mother-in-law doesn't drive

[00:13:19] she gets around on an electric scooter that toes a bicycle trailer. She lives in a long paid-off

[00:13:25] house and she would not be having money troubles if she wasn't overspending every month

[00:13:29] and she always counts on my wife to pick up the slack when she comes up short. My wife and I

[00:13:34] got in a huge fight when she got home because I had her mother arrested but I told her I'm done with

[00:13:40] the enabling of her toxic mother. I said I was changing the locks ASAP and banning her mother from

[00:13:45] the house. I also said that either we got marriage counseling or I'd be inquiring about my options

[00:13:49] from separation from an attorney. I thought my wife would beg me not to do that but instead she just

[00:13:55] called me horrible packed the suitcase and walked out to go to a motel. Just sat on the couch and

[00:14:01] let it go. She repeatedly looked like she was waiting for me to ask her to stay but I didn't.

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[00:15:38] In the morning she texted me she'd be bailing a mother out and wanted me to transfer her the money

[00:15:48] to pay for it since I was the one who got her mother arrested. And I said no all I got back was

[00:15:53] a sarcastic wow that was it. Not too long later I had a gut feeling and checked the balance on

[00:15:59] the shared bank account and my wife had taken out a lot of money. I wasn't sure if all that was

[00:16:05] needed for bail so I called the pawn shop later. To confirm my wife had come in and paid him back

[00:16:10] with $300 but he paid her mother for the keys. He was also quite angry and said he didn't want

[00:16:17] any of us in the shop ever again. I understood his anger and weirdly enough I had a fairly long talk

[00:16:22] with this guy. He understood I'm not part of the crazy. I tried to call and text wife for hours

[00:16:28] but she didn't answer. By evening I managed to find her. I knew which motel she'd likely go to

[00:16:34] when I was right. It was both cheap and not far away. I found her car and then figured out which

[00:16:39] room she was in. She'd had positively shocked her see me when she opened the door. I confronted her

[00:16:44] about the money she used for my shared account. She basically said that since I refused to pay for

[00:16:49] her mother's bail after I was the one who had her arrested, she got the money from me another way

[00:16:54] and smugly stated that she wasn't paying that money back into the shared account this time

[00:16:59] and told me that's the karma I get before shutting the door in my face. Then said through the door

[00:17:04] that she'd call the cops on me if I didn't leave. The smug look should give me reminded me of

[00:17:09] nasty teenage girls when they get their way. It really ticked me off. I already knew my marriage

[00:17:15] was pretty much over but that night it really sank in and I long sit down with some old video

[00:17:21] games and cola to think about my future. The house is rented so I'm not renewing my half for

[00:17:26] the lease and will soon be apartment hunting. Last month the lease is in March but I may leave

[00:17:32] sooner depending on how soon I can find an apartment. I have no kids yet thank god that's another

[00:17:37] thing I currently have in my favour. The next day I changed the locks on the house and removed

[00:17:42] all of my money from the joint bank account and stopped all automated payments to and from it.

[00:17:47] I make sure to take the only amount of money I'd put into the account. It must still more than

[00:17:52] enough in it for me to break even and still leave the minimum required balance on the account.

[00:17:57] Either way the cost of mother and laws bail and pay back the pawn shop was now entirely out of

[00:18:02] my wife's pocket now and I don't think she's noticed yet but it shouldn't be long.

[00:18:08] I've been to a couple of different divorce lawyers already and I picked the second one since

[00:18:13] the first seemed like they were only there for the paycheck. I'll have the divorce papers serve

[00:18:17] soon. I love my wife but it's clear she didn't love me so I can't stay with her anymore.

[00:18:23] She can have a thieving horde of mummy all to herself now. We both have very comparable incomes

[00:18:29] though I'll be pushing for us clean split divorce. The woman didn't deserve me and I fell for

[00:18:34] her act. She didn't want her husband, she wanted an insurance plan. I hope as few any charge is

[00:18:39] still possible against her mother. I'll update again when more happens but I'll be clear on this.

[00:18:45] I won't be changing my mind. I assume to be ex-wife, can beg and love bomb all she wants

[00:18:50] even if she bothers too. I'll never be number one and I'm not going to settle for being number two

[00:18:55] in my own marriage. It is over. Opus final post so far says had my wife served for the

[00:19:03] divorce since she sided with a key stealing entitled mother and this was in the entitled people

[00:19:08] subreddit and says just because I found the thought of it humorous I'll be referring to my wife as

[00:19:13] wifey a lot from now on. Also I know I've seen my composting too fast but remember this originally

[00:19:17] started around 10 days ago and I'm not wasted time in getting the divorce started.

[00:19:22] I'll also apologise for the length of this post as I could not keep it short. It really didn't take

[00:19:27] me long to find and hire a divorce lawyer and she's mean. Yes my lawyer is a woman and she seems

[00:19:33] pretty good at her job. She asked me a couple of times if I was really sure I wanted to do this

[00:19:38] once I explained my full story to her and showed some evidence. She agreed with me when I said

[00:19:43] I wanted to start ASAP as she got the ball rolling. Oh this divorce is going to cost me but

[00:19:49] I don't care. I rebuild my savings later as a free man. I didn't even want to rent the house

[00:19:54] I'm currently living in anyway. Wifey pushed for that. I've been happy staying in our old apartment

[00:20:00] we used to share until we could actually afforded to buy a house together instead. That's obviously

[00:20:05] never happening. I'll be paying a lot less for an apartment once we separate. Before coming home

[00:20:10] Wifey spent some time at a cheap hotel when she bailed her mother out of jail and she even threatened

[00:20:15] to call the police on me when I went to see her there. I changed her locks with my landlord's

[00:20:20] permission while Wifey was still away and sent her a text saying I'd done so but I guess

[00:20:24] she'd not bothered to look since she never responded. So upon returning home she ended up pounding

[00:20:29] on the door and screaming at me to let her in. I just watched her through the doorbell cam

[00:20:34] and let her keep her up for a while before she finally got on her phone to call me.

[00:20:38] I was already walking home from having had dinner with my best friend when she called

[00:20:42] and I pointed out the text she'd not bothered to read and I got home to let her in.

[00:20:46] She was puffy, cheeked, teary eyed and red with a bit of a cat butt face. Cat butt face?

[00:20:53] I had... this told me that as I had a new key ready for her and told her if she gave a copy to

[00:20:59] her mother again I'd be notifying our landlord as they were already very angry she'd given

[00:21:03] her mother a key to begin with. Not sure what the landlord could have done but it was enough to

[00:21:08] make Wifey comply for their moment. Plus, I'm not going to be living with her much longer anyway.

[00:21:15] My mother and all still believe she did absolutely nothing wrong in his plain victim

[00:21:19] the Wifey every chance she gets. She's not allowed over anymore for obvious reasons and I've been

[00:21:24] repeatedly called a monster by her and Wifey. I've never been more glad that mother and

[00:21:29] landlord has no friends because then she'd be telling them all of a convoluted version of the

[00:21:33] story to paint me as a villain. I just know it. She was told how much my key collection is roughly

[00:21:39] worth and what kind of felony charges she could be facing. Though my collection was returned fully

[00:21:44] intact though she may get the charges lessened. I'd like to hope she gets a decent punishment at

[00:21:49] least but I'm not really counting on the system to throw the book at them and manipulate it like

[00:21:54] her. As I said in my previous post, Wifey also paid her mother's bail and what she owed to the

[00:21:59] pawnshop with money out of our joint bank account. And then smuggly told me she wouldn't be put in

[00:22:04] the money back. Basically that was a terrible power move and the only way to try and put all the

[00:22:09] cost on me. I've since removed everything I had in that account and stopped all future payments

[00:22:14] to it so she can't spend my money too. I've changed my past words to pretty much everything.

[00:22:20] Wifey flipped the hell out on me but once she finally checked the account a couple of days ago

[00:22:24] because that meant what she's paid for mother and lost bail in reimbursing the pawnshop

[00:22:28] was all in her money only. And now there was no more access to my funds to supplement her own

[00:22:33] with. I just ignored her tantrum and went into the home office to watch anime on my computer.

[00:22:38] She banged on the door for a wild demanding I talked to her. I just stayed quiet and put on headphones.

[00:22:44] Wifey has repeatedly demanded I drop all charges against her mother and even said that if

[00:22:50] I really loved her, I would not only stop all of this and cover the cost too. When I kept refusing

[00:22:55] she moved into the spare bedroom. She tried to kick me out of the master bedroom first but

[00:23:00] I made it clear I'm not giving up the master bedroom when she's the one I fought.

[00:23:04] She tried to start taking my stuff out but I just blocked her while pointing my finger at her face

[00:23:09] and said no like I was talking to a dog. She ended up crying and saying I was demeaning her

[00:23:15] but I didn't care. Then for some more deception on her part, she admitted to me at a spite

[00:23:20] that until this message started she'd been planning on letting her mother come live with this full

[00:23:24] time soon because of the state of her hoarder house. She boasted that she was going to move rim

[00:23:29] while I was at work. I told her we were supposed to be equal partners before all of this happened.

[00:23:34] I was sick of a unilateral decision making and as long as I'm paying 50% of the lease,

[00:23:39] my mother will not be living here and if she tried I threw all of her mother's stuff out immediately.

[00:23:45] Wifey looked like she wanted to explode and stormed off to have a drink and allowed

[00:23:49] phone call with her mother in the kitchen. I just started removing her stuff from the master bedroom

[00:23:54] left it in the other room for her. I put a new look on the door to the master bedroom too.

[00:24:00] I had Wifey served at her job which she said really embarrassed her in front of her colleagues

[00:24:05] and she flipped out on me again once she got home. Apparently she didn't take my threats

[00:24:09] and have all seriously until those papers were actually in her hands. She said I couldn't do this

[00:24:14] but I told her I was done she made it more than clear where she stands. I told her I learned a

[00:24:19] rather interesting phrase online when people show you who they really are to leave them

[00:24:25] and she clearly showed me who she really is and that's not the woman I fell in love with.

[00:24:30] That woman disappeared and got replaced with an entitled mummy's girl who refuses to rack the

[00:24:34] rage right after we got married which makes it pretty obvious she did that intentionally.

[00:24:39] At this point I don't think she ever loved me just my wallet. I can't stay married to a woman

[00:24:44] who called me into marrying her. Then she started screaming at me that she wasn't a gold digger so I

[00:24:49] asked her if she ever been inclined to stay married to me if I'd done all the same things to her.

[00:24:53] She tried to deny it at first and looked around like she was trying to find a better answer

[00:24:58] then she just gas-let to deflect as usual but I had none of it. I told her right then and there

[00:25:04] that I'm not renewing the lease on the house with her because I don't want to live with a

[00:25:08] petulant woman child I can't trust and if she wants to keep the house she can go ahead and

[00:25:12] start a new lease to move her mother into once I'm gone finally asked when the real waterwork started.

[00:25:18] She said I was destroying our family and I said what family? We pointed out how we don't have kids

[00:25:24] and her mother is more important to her than me. We have no family and I just walked away

[00:25:31] she loudly cried in the living room for hours but I ignored her. She's now giving me the hardcore

[00:25:36] silent treatment and won't look me in the eyes. I'm actually enjoying it which just seems to make her

[00:25:42] angrily. As an added bonus I warned my current landlord about wifey wanting to move her mother in

[00:25:47] I gave him all the details I had about mother-in-law, the state of a whoreter house and how much of a

[00:25:52] deceptive mummies girl wifey is and warned him that if he let mother-in-law live in any property

[00:25:57] he owns she would turn it into an utter disaster. He thanked me for telling him and is now not going

[00:26:02] to let wife renew the lease on her own if she tries. To be advertising the property soon,

[00:26:07] wife has no idea yet and likely we've only just barely been able to afford the house with her

[00:26:12] mother's help anyway. One more thing yesterday someone warned me to take the name of the joint

[00:26:17] bank account entirely so I would not be off the hook for any overdraft. I took that to heart

[00:26:22] and went to the bank to get it done. I only took a few minutes to do it and the bank is 10 minutes

[00:26:27] away by car. All good now, I've been working from home lately so I had the time. All statements from

[00:26:33] the account were already printed and given to my lawyer too but I can wash my hands of it.

[00:26:38] Edith, I don't know if it's the same rules elsewhere but the bank had no problem removing my name

[00:26:43] from the account as a cosigner when I pushed for it. There were no debts on the account and had

[00:26:47] plenty more than the minimum balance. The bank likely did tell wife but whether or not she knows

[00:26:52] they did it does not matter as she's currently not talking to me. And that was OP's last post thus

[00:27:01] far. I'll certainly keep an eye out for updates on that because there's surely more to come on this

[00:27:06] but I was shocked that she was shocked that he is going through a divorce after all this after all

[00:27:12] this behavior is escalated to this point. She was just sort of expecting it to just carry on maybe

[00:27:19] or for him to back down. After the police involvement, her going out to a hotel and basically laughing

[00:27:25] in his face that she was spending his money to bail the mother out and then she was shocked when

[00:27:31] she actually got served those papers. That's shocking in itself right? And there was a lot of

[00:27:36] him advising the comments like not blocking on text messages and stuff so you can keep

[00:27:41] boy that kind of stuff as evidence etc etc. I think OP's got most of this pretty well handled

[00:27:47] right? They seem to be the whole bank stuff they get it done straight away, they're on to lawyers

[00:27:52] and they're dealing with everything ASAP right away but that has got to be stressful to be going

[00:27:58] through that. The constant thinking about what she's up to in the background. What else I got to cover?

[00:28:04] You know I do feel for you OP but what do you guys make of this situation so far? What would you

[00:28:11] advise to OP? Mother and law sounds bad shit crazy. Just from the very beginning as well,

[00:28:18] the entitlement of saying that you need to get me a mobile phone just like that new smartphone.

[00:28:23] What made her think that she's entitled to that? From OP of all people, obviously asking her

[00:28:29] daughter to get it was it on OP? Wow anyway just a huge thank you for being here today getting

[00:28:35] involved in the stories your love, your support, your time always means the absolute world to me so

[00:28:40] thank you so much for being involved and hopefully I'll see you in the next one. Take care and much love!

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