Reddit Stories - ARRANGED and covered the expenses for my MOTHER-IN-LAW'S CELEBRATION, but she informed me

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

#redditstories #askreddit #aita #motherinlaw #celebration #expenses #familydrama #relationshipadviceSummary: The narrator discusses covering the expenses for their mother-in-law's celebration. However..., the mother-in-law later informed them about unexpected issues that arose, leading to tension and misunderstandings within the family. The situation raises questions about expectations and responsibilities in family celebrations.Tags: redditstories, askreddit, reddit, aita, tifu, family, celebration, expenses, motherinlaw, relationship, drama, communication, expectations, misunderstandings, advice, support, events, conflict, familydynamics, storiesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reddit-stories--6816713/support.This episode includes AI-generated content.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Episode with two stories, first part. I hope you enjoy this story. Arranged and covered the expenses for my mother-in-law's celebration, but she informed me that I was not invited as I was not considered part of the family. In response, I asked her to leave and repurpose the location for my own event. Own party instead. I'm a 26-year-old female, and I've been married to my 29-year-old husband for almost three years now. I've always known that my husband's family doesn't really like me. My husband has two younger twin sisters, 23, and a younger brother, 21, and none of them seem to like me very much. The same goes for my mother-in-law as well. I've never been able to figure
Starting point is 00:00:44 out why exactly they dislike me so much, but I was determined to fix it since I wanted to build a good relationship with my in-laws. So I decided to plan my mother-in-law's 50th birthday party this year. My husband advised me against it, saying that if his family doesn't seem to like me, then I should just let it be instead of going out of my way to be nice and win them over. But I ignored his advice since I really wanted to be on good terms with them. I'm just a people person, and I couldn't stand the thought that these people seemed to dislike me for no apparent reason. I had to make it right.
Starting point is 00:01:17 A few days ago, I started planning for the party and even tried to get my husband's siblings involved, but they weren't interested at all and told me to do it all myself if I wanted to. I booked one of my mother-in-law's favorite restaurants where she and her late husband used to go on dates all the time, and I paid for all the food and decor well in advance. In fact, I even oversaw it all myself and made sure that all of it was up to my mother-in-law's taste and standards, as she was really particular about things like these. I even invited a few of her closest friends and some of our relatives after consulting my husband regarding who she'd want there. Basically, I paid for everything and planned it all out on my own
Starting point is 00:01:55 with a little help from my husband, while her own kids did absolutely nothing to help and didn't even contribute financially. Yesterday, on the eve of her birthday, we visited her even though my husband didn't want to. Anyway, once we got there, we noticed that her other kids were already there, and they looked pretty surprised to see us but didn't say anything. After a bit of small talk, I finally came to the point and told her that we'd be expecting her at the restaurant and the evening tomorrow since we had something planned for her. She smiled and thanked my husband for it, but he told her that it was all me and I was the one she should be thanking. Her face soured instantly, and I was pretty confused for a second. I told her that I'd invited all her close friends and
Starting point is 00:02:37 some of her family members, and I'd made sure that I picked out all her favorite food as well, in an attempt to get her to acknowledge my efforts. But a nasty look took over her face. But a nasty look took over her face, and she proceeded to say thanks in the most false, sugar-coated tone before telling me that while she appreciated my efforts, she was sorry that I wouldn't be attending. I was shocked and asked her why. She replied that she wanted her 50th to be special, so she wanted it to be a family-only event. While she did consider her friends as family, she didn't consider me family at all, so she'd appreciated if I made myself scarce the next day. My husband and I looked shocked to the core, and I realized in that moment that he'd been right all along. I never should have put in any
Starting point is 00:03:20 effort at all since she was clearly never going to appreciate any of it ever. My husband's siblings, on the other hand, looked like they were going to burst out laughing any second, which is what pissed me off even more. So I got up, told her that she could go to hell, and if she dared to show up tomorrow, then I'd have security escort her out. That wiped the smug looks off all their faces, and my mother-in-law told me that I was being cold and cruel. So I just laughed in her face and said that it was pretty rich coming from her. After a bit of back and forth where she tried to convince me that I was wrong, I told her that she didn't deserve anything nice and that my decision was final.
Starting point is 00:03:58 She and her kids looked furious, and right before I left, she started crying, probably as a last-ditch effort to make me feel sorry, but I didn't care anymore. I was livid. on the drive home, I tried to cancel the reservation, but since it was too late, there was nothing I could do. My husband looked pretty uncomfortable about this whole thing but refused to make any comment apart from saying that I did the right thing. Then he went out for a smoke once we got home, which was fine by me since he'd never been too expressive when it came to his family and preferred to stay out of these things. Moreover, I was the one who had ignored his advice, so it was nice of him to not rub it in my face. Anyway, since I'd already paid for the place and food, I decided
Starting point is 00:04:41 to cancel all the invites, which was pretty last minute and ticked off a lot of the guests. But they were mostly my mother-in-law's friends, so I didn't care. Instead, I called over some of my own friends to make it all worth it since I was pretty annoyed about everything that had happened. My husband also joined in, and I also got him to invite a few of his friends so that we could party. We got rid of the decor just in time before they came and had a total blast. I posted all the pictures after I came back home today. My sister-in-law texted me saying that I'd ruined her mother's birthday and said that it was incredibly selfish of me to use the venue for myself, especially when I knew how much it meant to my mother-in-law. I don't feel particularly sorry about
Starting point is 00:05:24 what I did and think it was perfectly reasonable, though I'm just hoping I'm right. I'd have for canceling my mother-in-law's birthday party that I'd planned after she told me that I wasn't welcome there? Update 1, I told my husband about the message his sister had sent to me and asked him if I should apologize to his family. He said absolutely not. In fact, he told me that he'd had enough of their behavior and thought that it would be best if we decided to cut them off entirely. This was a huge deal since his family relied on him a lot for money and stuff, especially my mother-in-law. My husband is relatively well off and runs his own company, so cutting them off would mean that she'd have to rely on her other kids instead,
Starting point is 00:06:03 which was a problem as my husband's siblings were good for nothing and all switched jobs every few months. Truth be told, all of them were very dependent on him for money and stuff, so this was a huge decision. I tried to discourage him from doing so, but he was pretty adamant. I'm sure that there's something deeper at play here because, truth be told, I've always noticed that his family grew apart from him the longer we dated. By the time we were getting married, he was quite detached from his family.
Starting point is 00:06:32 It wasn't his own fault since I remember him telling me several times that he would invite his family over for dinner while we were dating and even in the initial stages of our marriage, but they'd always make up some excuse to avoid it. I was sure that I was part of the reason as well, and that was another factor that made me so desperate to build a relationship with my in-laws so that my husband could also reconnect with his family. I'm quite sure that there's something that my husband isn't telling me or hasn't told me because he's not the kind of person to simply abandon his family. He used to tell me earlier
Starting point is 00:07:02 about how much family meant to him, and so this sudden decision, although fair and light of how my mother-in-law treated me a couple of days back, is very strange and out of character for him. I'm determined to get to the bottom of this because I don't want my husband to be miserable because of me or resent me in the future. I'm just hoping that he finally feels comfortable enough to tell me what made him take such a drastic measure now. Update 2. After a lot of pestering him, my husband finally opened up as to why he's cutting his family off after all these years. I knew that his father had passed away when he was 21 and his siblings were all in school back then. His mother had never worked a day in her life, so naturally it was on him to get to work
Starting point is 00:07:43 and be the breadwinner of the family since the money his dad had left them wouldn't be enough to cover it all. He worked hard day and night, and finally when he was about 23, he found some investors for his startup and things finally started looking up for him. He went from just getting by to flourishing, which was great for him, but it made his family immensely lazy and materialistic. Now that he was making more money, they started getting more and more dependent on him, but he didn't say anything about it or protest since he felt that he owed them this, as this is what his father would have wanted him to do. They also treated his girlfriends quite badly since they believed that having other people in his life would distract him, and his
Starting point is 00:08:21 sole aim should be to provide for his family. This is why when we met and it became clear that I wasn't someone they could just mistreat and drive away, since I was just that determined to be with my husband. They started getting annoyed by my very existence and tried to poison my husband against me. However, by then he'd had enough, and there was a lot of fighting and bickering while we were dating that happened behind my back, where his family wanted him to break up with me but he was intent on marrying me. Eventually they started distancing themselves from him in an attempt to guilt-trip him, but they still came to him for money. This tactic also failed to break us apart. and several years later, here we are, still going strong.
Starting point is 00:09:00 After the whole birthday fiasco, my husband told me that while his sister texted me to guilt-trip me, his mother had called him up to do the same to him and was trying to emotionally manipulate him into leaving me since I'd insulted her. That's why he decided that he'd had enough of this and it was time to let go. I'm still in shock that his family put him through all of this even though he was the one who's been supporting them throughout, and I pretty much lost any respect I ever had for them because they're just plain greedy. I'm really happy that I decided to stick it out with my husband
Starting point is 00:09:29 despite his family's attempts to separate us and drive me away so they could hog his money. Truth be told, I don't care how much money he is because I love him for who he is, and his bank balance has nothing to do with it. Now that I know the whole story, I'm surprised that he was able to put up with this and even keep it all a secret from me for so long to spare my feelings since I'd wanted to have a good bond with my in-laws. but he knew that was never going to happen. I think he's making the right decision now, and that his family deserves to get cut off.
Starting point is 00:10:01 They're incredibly selfish and greedy and have no respect for the one man who had their back for so long against all odds. Update 3. Today my husband finally called his mother up and told her that he doesn't want to hear from her or his siblings unless they change their ways. They'll also have to find their own source of income since he isn't going to continue supporting them his entire life. Just as I'd expected, this decision was met with uproar on their end. And I could hear my mother-in-law screaming at my husband even though his phone wasn't even on loudspeaker. There was a pretty nasty argument that broke out between them. And since I was in the same room as my husband, I heard every single word of it. My mother-in-law obviously tried to blame me for this and said that I must have influenced his decision to cut them off somehow.
Starting point is 00:10:47 She also accused me of trying to break their family apart and said that my husband shouldn't let himself get manipulative. by his wife again. The irony of her telling my husband to not allow himself to get manipulated was pretty funny to me. Obviously, my husband defended me to the best of his abilities and even told her that his siblings need to find decent jobs because they're all adults now, and it's pretty pathetic that they still have to rely on him to provide for them. She started accusing my husband of letting the money and power of being in such a high-paying position get to his head, and that I was also probably encouraging him to cut his family off, which is why he was treating his own blood. so cruelly. It was all classic manipulation and emotional blackmail to keep him under her thumb,
Starting point is 00:11:28 but I wasn't going to let that happen anymore now that I knew what she and her other kids had been up to. When things started getting too heated and I could see my husband getting flustered and teary-eyed out of sheer frustration, I decided to intervene. I told her that my husband's mind was made up, and if she and her kids didn't get in line soon, then they'd be losing my husband's support forever. Now the ball was in their court. They could either behave like decent human beings and respect me and my husband to continue being in our lives, or they could be the blood-sucking, materialistic assholes that they were and get cut out of my husband's life entirely. Having said that, I hung up and muted all notifications on my husband's phone
Starting point is 00:12:07 so that he wouldn't have to deal with them for a while and had time to calm down. It's been an hour since the call ended, and we've kept our phones aside to watch a movie and keep ourselves distracted update four since harassing my husband and ruining his day wasn't enough. my mother-in-law decided to bother me instead. After the movie ended, my husband decided to finish up some pending work, and I decided to check my phone. I had several missed calls from my mother-in-law and innumerable texts saying absolutely disgusting things to me that were full of curse words from my husband's siblings. I wasn't surprised in the least, though, since this is exactly what I had expected them to do. I just took screenshots of it all for later and ignored it.
Starting point is 00:12:47 I continued to reply to work emails and stuff for the next ten minutes, but that's when my mother-in-law called again and I accidentally ended up accepting the call. She then proceeded to say the nastiest things about me and my upbringing, calling me a manipulative and selfish gold digger who was out to ruin my husband. I didn't even respond to any of her accusations and simply waited for her to be done with it. When she finally seemed to run out of steam, I told her that everything that she accused me of doing was things that she herself was guilty of, so before pointing fingers, she should probably just introspect a little. I also told her that I was glad that my husband was finally getting rid of freeloaders like her
Starting point is 00:13:25 and her other kids since they didn't deserve to even breathe the same air as he did. Then I hung up and blocked her and my husband's siblings everywhere that I possibly could so that they couldn't get to me anymore. It's just sad that people are willing to stoop so low just to be able to avoid doing any work for themselves. I haven't told my husband about his mother calling me up yet because I just don't want to stress him out even more, but if this happens again, then I'll definitely be letting him know and ensuring that they're out of our lives forever. They have absolutely no right to disturb our peace in this manner. I don't know what they're going to do next, but I'm sure that my mother-in-law is definitely not going to stop until and unless we decide to take legal action against her or something.
Starting point is 00:14:07 I'm praying that it doesn't have to come to that since that'll be a huge ordeal for my husband emotionally, but if it does, I'm ready to make sure that we see it through. They're not messing with my husband anymore, that's for sure. Update 5, almost two weeks have passed since the last update, and so much has happened since then. After I blocked my mother-in-law, my husband and I had dinner and went off to sleep, hoping that there'd be some peace and quiet the next day. But the very next day, my mother-in-law showed up at our doorstep
Starting point is 00:14:37 with her three grown children and demanded an explanation for everything that had been said and done so far. She looked pretty angry, and so did my husband's siblings, and I knew for a fact that this was going to be very stressful for my husband. I decided to stay in the room despite their protestations saying that I had no right to be there because this was a family issue and I'm not family. I let them know that they were intruding upon my privacy and were standing under my roof, so they had no right to tell me if I could stay or not.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Then they started verbally attacking my husband, bombarding him with accusation, of being selfish and unreasonable, and even going to the extent of saying that he was abandoning his family just to keep his wife happy. My husband had stayed silent and was already looking pretty red in the face, so I knew that was my cue to take over since my husband is a really sensitive man, especially when it comes to his family and loved ones. I knew that he wouldn't be able to fight them and defend himself against their false accusations and manipulation because that's how soft-hearted and kind he was. While they were just using him for his money, he genuinely and truly did love his family. So I told him to compose himself and told his family
Starting point is 00:15:44 to leave because they were pissing me off and, more importantly, they were making my husband cry. My mother-in-law started arguing with me, saying that I don't get to push her around, especially in her son's house, and that she can stay for as long as she wants to. She still didn't stop speaking to my husband even though he looked pretty upset with everything. It was disgusting to see that she couldn't care less about her own son's feelings and what mattered to her most was the money. So she started telling him that she hadn't raised him like this and that she was disappointed that he was choosing his wife over his own family. His brother even said that the only duty he should be fulfilling was that of a son and a brother since I was a
Starting point is 00:16:22 gold digger anyway and didn't deserve to have a husband like him in the first place. That pissed me off, and I lost my cool at that point. I snapped at him and told him exactly what I thought of the lot of them. They were all lazy, good-for-nothing idiots who were surviving solely on the kindness and generosity of my husband since they themselves were incapable of doing anything for themselves, and that they were pretty much the definition of gold diggers. Moreover, not only were they hovering around my husband constantly for money, but they also had the audacity to be so ungrateful and target him after all that he'd done for them. They were stunned into being silent, and I could see that they were struggling to fight back
Starting point is 00:17:00 but had nothing to say. Taking advantage of that, I told them to get out before I reported them to the cops for showing up uninvited and then refusing to leave. So they left, but my mother-in-law still believed that she could convince my husband to choose them over me, so she said that his father would be disappointed had he been alive to witness the way they'd been treated by their eldest son today. I thought it was really just low and disgusting to play that card constantly to emotionally blackmail my husband, and by the time they'd driven away, I could see that my husband was barely holding it together. He started sobbing uncontrollably as soon as they left, and I had to spend hours calming him down.
Starting point is 00:17:37 I felt terrible about this whole thing and wished that I'd never tried to throw my mother-in-law a birthday party in the first place at all. But then again, that was what had led to this can of worms being opened, and I'm grateful that this happened sooner rather than later. Anyway, after his family left, I blocked them everywhere from his phone and social media as well and made sure that they couldn't get to us online.
Starting point is 00:18:00 After he had calmed down enough, I told him that it was about time that we started looking into law. because I was sure this wouldn't be the last that we would be hearing from his mother and siblings. He agreed with that because, as much as he hated to admit it, he was well aware that his family was willing to go to any lengths to get some money out of him. So we started looking for family lawyers just to be on the safe side, and we were definitely right to have done that because within days of that fight, my mother-in-law sent us a legal notice demanding that he pay them an extravagant sum of money as compensation for stealing tons and tons of money from them after his father's death
Starting point is 00:18:32 to start his business. It was appalling to me that she and her children were willing to lie about something so huge and defame my husband. He'd never taken a single dollar from whatever his father had left them but had only used money that he'd earned himself. He was completely self-made, and even claiming such a thing was an insult to his integrity, and I was furious that they dared to propagate such a lie. Since my husband's company is a pretty big one, it got a lot of people talking as well, which did affect his business too, and that was dumb on their part. However, we were able to prove after almost two weeks that they were lying and not one word of their claims was true, so now they're the ones who have to pay us a huge fine for trying
Starting point is 00:19:13 to defame us and jeopardize my husband's career. Last I heard, my mother-in-law and her kids had been ostracized by the rest of the family because of their nasty little stunt, and all three of those lazy idiots are scrambling to find jobs so that they can pay the bills that my husband has been taking care of so far. I'm glad that this is happening to them because they totally and absolutely deserve this. We can finally move past this whole episode and forget about them altogether. My husband and I are a lot happier now, and I intend to keep it this way forever. That's the end of the first story. Let's begin the second one. I hope you enjoy this story. I plan to depart from my foster family for the night, leaving behind only a note. I will
Starting point is 00:19:58 was taken in by a family at the age of five, and I am not familiar with my biological roots. Biological parents, the family already had three children, three girls, apparently after the first girl they tried for a boy but it always ended up being a girl so after three girls they adopted me to finally have a son. In the first few years of my life they treated us all well. My sisters however were never able to accept me, they saw me as an outsider who doesn't belong in the family. Actually, it was the oldest one called Alicia who poisoned the other two called Maria and Juliet against me by telling them that our parents would treat me better because I was a boy which wasn't true.
Starting point is 00:20:36 In fact, all three of them protested against me getting a room in the same floor as them, and my parents gave in. There was a spare room in the basement where I had to sleep now. This, however, just lead to them making fun of me, calling me names like cellar rat and many more things. I just shrugged it off assuming that's how siblings treated each other, but I realized that having my sleeping room. in the basement somehow also affected the way my parents treated me, sleeping down there felt like I was out of sight for them, they lost interest in me and I became less significant and important. While on the other hand they started to focus more on my sisters.
Starting point is 00:21:11 When I was 13 they completely lost interest in me, it was like I was a homeless person living in the basement, they missed all the appointments I had, they didn't care about my grades, they never even called me to eat, sometimes I would come upstairs and see how they already took away the plates, if I was lucky there were leftovers that I could eat. Do you think I got presents for my birthday? No, because they didn't even know my birthday in the first place, and last Christmas they said they forgot to buy presents for me saying they will go shopping with me the next few weeks to get me. Something which as you might expect never happened. I don't feel despise towards my sisters. I'm glad they have a home where they are cared for and that they can
Starting point is 00:21:50 feel loved. I just don't understand why they would adopt me if they just throw me away like a piece paper. I think they just wanted to have this feeling to have a son for some time but then realized they could never love me like one of their own, and putting me into the basement was the last straw, that is when they completely banished me from their minds. And I just can't do this anymore. I decided to pack my things and leave, I will do it tonight, I stay at a friend's house for a while and try to look for a job that hopefully gets me enough money so that I can rent an apartment, and after that I will never look back, I decided to leave a letter I wouldn't be surprised if they never even find it, let alone notice that I'm gone. I use a throwaway for
Starting point is 00:22:30 this, but I actually don't know why. I thought I don't want them to see this, but now that I think about it I could send them this. Post. I don't know why I even write this in here in the first place. I feel so desperate, maybe I want this because I hope that someone is interested in me and my story. Update, I will leave my adoptive family overnight. all I'll leave them there will be a letter. I didn't expect to give you an update so quickly but in the brief time span between my post yesterday and this one right here so many things happened that I have to update you right now. Let's start by what happened yesterday. First of all, I never expected my post to blow up like this. This is absolutely insane. I tried to read all
Starting point is 00:23:11 of your comments and answer all direct messages but it's just too many, so I'm sorry if I ignored you. many of you had great advice such as taking all my documents with me and go to the police which I wanted to do today. Let's go through everything that happened chronologically. After reading through many comments I decided to take my documents with me, so at the evening before my adoptive parents went to bed I snuck into their bedroom and took all documents that I could find and waited I packed my things and left when all of them were asleep. Everything went as planned. I silently left the house and went to my best friend's home. He had an apartment in a neighbor's city so I had to walk for a while. I arrived at his apartment between 2 and 3 a.m. He had a spare bedroom that he used for visitors who might want to stay for the night. We agreed that I could live with him as long as I want, he only expected me to find a job quickly and if I do that he wants me to help him pay the rent
Starting point is 00:24:03 for it, I was fine with that. I slept through the night and at the morning I started looking for jobs immediately, but now a few hours something more than interesting happened. While I was on his laptop still looking through the online job advertisements and collecting them the doorbell rang, he opened the door and I heard a familiar voice, but. It wasn't one of my parents, it was one of my sisters. Maria, to be exact, the middle sister, I heard how she asked if I was here, he wanted to lie for me, but I decided to talk to her to find out what she wanted, so I appeared behind him and she weep, thank God you're here, and hugged me, I was completely overwhelmed and
Starting point is 00:24:39 surprised and didn't know what to say and then she told me how she found me and this is where things get more interesting. She told me that this morning a way too familiar sounding story appeared on her TikTok for you page. Apparently my story was shared by a TikTok account who actually had a quite big audience and she became even more suspicious of the situation when her and the name of her sisters were also mentioned. To be sure about the situation she went in a basement and into my room where she found the room mostly empty and of course my letter. I mentioned in a story that I would stay with a friend so she went out, looking for me, telling our parents she was about to visit a friend. She said she drove to two different houses before finding the correct address.
Starting point is 00:25:19 She apparently visited two other friends of me before finding the correct apartment. Apparently she also took the letter with her. She said she hasn't showed them the letter yet and wanted to talk to me first. No one besides her knew where I was or what I did the last night. She apologized to me and offered to talk with her on my side to our parents. She explained that the way I talked about her in the original post made her feel bad, she said she never hated me or anything. She admitted that she also protested against me having a room on their floor but just because of. Alicia's influence on her and because she believed her lies when she was younger, now that I think about it unlike Alicia and Juliet she never called me bad names.
Starting point is 00:25:58 She said that Juliet probably also is just insufferable because of how Alicia manipulated she said she never realized how bad I was treated, she never gave a second thought about me because Alicia spread rumors that I was just very socially awkward and overall didn't like any of them and that I would just lock myself inside the basement like the worst introvert and all of that. And as a reason for her claim she just reminded them that I was adopted and that is why I would try to make myself. The outsider, I said to her that this might explain why she and Juliet might have been like that to me but not why my parents would have behaved that way, she replied that she also
Starting point is 00:26:33 can just make claims here without any proof, but she thinks it's because even between them Alicia is the golden child as the firstborn. Her and Juliet are only the failed attempts of them having a boy and her being the golden child made it easier for her to manipulate both of them into believing the lies she told them. Then she said that she knows that mom and dad would be pretty easy to manipulate if you know how, and then she gave me four options. One, I could come with her right now and talk with her to my parents. Two, she would let me think about it and leave but not tell my parents. 3. I refused to go back with her entirely but she would tell them about the letter
Starting point is 00:27:10 without telling them where to find me. 4. I refused to go back with her entirely but she would pretend to not know anything but maybe stay in contact with me. I picked option 2 and she gave me her number. She said that if I decide to give them a chance she would support me but she would understand if I refuse to, and now we are here, I don't know what to do, I would lie if say I wasn't tempted to give them a chance but on the other hand it's true that Alicia is the one behind all of that I don't know if I want to deal with her again. Update 2. I will leave my adoptive family overnight, all I'll leave them there will be a letter. I start this by saying that many of your comments suggested that Maria could have potentially
Starting point is 00:27:51 manipulated me and that I shouldn't trust her just now, which I understand, I decided to stay with my friend, especially since I applied for so many jobs yesterday and I think I could find one in no time, so there is no reason for me to get back with them as an 18-year-old. But these are just side facts. I would have not given you an update if nothing had happened. Apparently my adoptive parents did realize I was gone recently, so they started looking for me. They are sure that Maria knew where I was considering she had my letter with her.
Starting point is 00:28:18 I'm currently only in contact with Maria who told me all of this. Apparently my parents tried asking her about my whereabouts and grounded her after she refused to tell them. Yes, they grounded a 21-year-old. Couldn't believe it either. as many of you suggested I went to the police so they couldn't file a missing report about me, and meanwhile Alicia started to spread rumors again. Apparently she used my disappearance as a proof that she was right with everything and Juliet believes every single word, she is completely under Alicia's control, even though I
Starting point is 00:28:48 didn't want to see them again I kind of want to give Maria a chance. I asked my friend if hypothetically Maria could stay with us too, he raised an eyebrow and said only if she wants to sleep on the couch and then he asked me why I want her here in the first place. The thing is if she cares about me then I don't want her to stay with this family. He was annoyed but said yes. I texted her asking if she'd consider to move out and offered her to stay with me and my friend, before you say it, I. No, it seems like a way too quick decision, but I truly think that Maria is not like the rest of them. Many of you said that that she probably wanted to save face but someone wouldn't go through all that to find me and then
Starting point is 00:29:26 protect me by keeping my whereabouts a secret if they just wanted to save face, considering that I never mentioned their last names or where they lived so it's not like anyone could have known it was her in real life. I honestly think that my story opened her eyes, she answered by asking if I was for real and that she wasn't sure, I reminded her that she is 21 and probably should think about moving out of our parents' house anyway. And that she was grounded at her age as pretty f asterisk asterisk asterisk get up, they tried to find me, I was told that she was 21. I was told that she was 21 and probably should think about moving out of our parents' house anyway, and that she was grounded at her age as pretty F asterisk asterisk asterisk get up, they try to find me. I said that she was
Starting point is 00:30:07 21 and probably should think about moving out. She said she is not denying that she would like that because apparently Alicia also started to spread lies about her too because of how she behaves towards me, she overheard how she was talking to her friends about her and that she was called the complicit of a maniac. Still don't know why Alicia hates me so much, but I don't care about it, she said she doesn't think it's a bad idea, but she wants to find a job to have a financial stability first before moving out, that was fair enough, and my friend was much happier this way too. He said he isn't really excited of having another jobless person living with him, but he said that if she has a job, he'd gladly. Help her. One more reason why I think that
Starting point is 00:30:46 Maria moving out isn't a bad idea is because if both her and me got a job, we could probably rent an apartment together in no time and would not have any financial problems, so yeah, that's it for now, let's see what happens in the future. I want to mention one more thing. On my last post, some people were talking badly about the TikTok account that shared my story. Please don't talk badly about the account. They didn't know it would end like that and I. Don't have a problem with anyone sharing my story. Thank you for reading less than three. Edit. Some of you pointed out the situation with my friend. Believe me if I wasn't sure he was okay with it, I would not have suggested it, he was unsure about the offer at first because I hadn't asked her before asking him
Starting point is 00:31:25 so of course he thought it was just another jobless person, but like I said he is fine with it as long as she has a job. And I'm definitely grateful for what he is doing and I will repay his kindness. Don't worry about that. What he does should not be taken for granted and I know that, you're also right that offering her to live in his apartment is going a bit far, but like I said, he is an amazing person, I wouldn't do it if I knew he wasn't 100% okay with it. Update 3. I will leave my adoptive family overnight. All I'll leave them there will be a letter. I want to keep you updated so here I am again. Today I got a call from Alicia, and apparently nothing is what it seems to be. I still try. To process this call, I've been in contact with Maria for a few days and I truly thought she was different but she was just like the others. When I got the call today it was an unknown number. I froze when I heard Alessia's voice. She screamed at me saying who the hell do I think I am to talk about her like that. we had a little argument but somehow managed to calm down. I thought about hanging up but I wondered what she wanted from, me.
Starting point is 00:32:27 She told me to grow up, I was never part of their family. According to her and that I should have known it since the beginning and stopped crying about it now when I could have done something about it the entire time, I admit I was angry and not very nice, I told her to go FCK herself and told her I was going to get Maria out of there too because both us wouldn't deserve a life around someone like her. then she said something I guess she shouldn't have said. She said that I was ridiculous because Maria was a part of all of this theater and if I truly thought Mom and Dad cared about me, then she accused me of trying to ruin her family and told me what really happened after I left. They tried to save their face. Maria hasn't told me the full story. Apparently it's true that she was the one who found my story on TikTok by accident and she also found a letter first.
Starting point is 00:33:13 In Maria's version of the story she lied to Mom and Dad and told them she was about to visit her first. when she was looking for me and they didn't know about it. But Alicia said that Maria told mom and dad immediately after finding my letter. This also answers the question how Maria knew about my friend's address. I never told this to anyone except my adoptive mom. They thought that if they fooled me into thinking I had someone on my side, it would be easier for them to get to me because they assumed I probably wouldn't open the door for them. I couldn't believe it and asked why I would believe someone like her to which she replied, who do you think? Gave me your number, then she demanded me to take down my posts and hung up. Honestly, I kind of believe her, but it also
Starting point is 00:33:52 proves that they are all the same. They try to manipulate me to get back with them to save their reputation. Many of you guys warned me about this, but even after everything that happened I didn't want to believe someone could be this evil, but that's it, I will cut any contact with them. I am not taking my posts down. Everyone deserves to know what these people are. I cannot. Believe I tried so desperately to see the good in them, oh, some of you might want to know that I also apologize to my friend for offering room that wasn't mine to begin with. I understand your critique about this and you are right. I crossed a line there. With that being said the chapter adoptive dickhead family is hopefully closed now. I try to focus on my life and maybe someday I will
Starting point is 00:34:32 find someone who truly loves me. I might keep you updated if anything is going to happen but think this could. As well be the last post of this throwaway account. Wish me luck. See ya.

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