Reddit Stories - DISCOVERED EXPECTING spouse's sibling pilfering my INFORMATION due to her mother's extreme beliefs

Episode Date: February 15, 2026

#redditstories #askreddit #aita #familydrama #secrets #boundaries #trustissues #communication  Summary: A person uncovers that their spouse's sibling has been stealing personal information, influenced by their mother's extreme beliefs. This revelation raises concerns about trust and boundaries within the family, prompting a discussion about the importance of communication and respect for privacy in relationships.  Tags: redditstories, askreddit, reddit, aita, tifu, familydynamics, personalboundaries, trustissues, communication, secrets, siblingrivalry, extremebeliefs, privacyconcerns, relationshipadvice, familyconflict, emotionalwellbeing, conflictresolution, familyloyalty, interpersonalrelationships, lifeadviceBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reddit-stories--6816713/support.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Episode with two stories, first part. I hope you enjoy this story. Discovered expecting spouse as sibling pilfering my information due to her mother's extreme beliefs that I would betray my spouse because she is overweight while carrying our child. Hello, everyone. So I, 27M, have been living with my in-laws for the past three weeks now. My wife, 25F, and I have been married for three years and she's eight months pregnant now. She wanted her family to move in to help her out since on maternity leave right now, but I still had to work and she didn't want to be home alone all day, so I agreed that she definitely did need someone to stay with her at home. She told me that she was going to invite her family over to live with her until the baby was born, but I hadn't exactly been comfortable with that idea, so I tried to convince her to invite only her mother. I don't like that woman one bit, but she was my wife's mom, so I was willing to put up with her for a while for my wife's sake.

But she insisted that she wanted her entire family living with her so I had to give in to it eventually. So three weeks ago, her parents and two younger siblings, her brother aged 22, and her sister aged 18, all moved into our house. I'm very thankful that my parents let me live in their house after I got married. They moved out of the city and live on the outskirts of the city with my uncle now. They're all retired and run a B&B for a living. After my in-laws moved in, my wife took over the shared bedroom entirely and my mother-in-law insisted that she sleep in our bedroom as well since she has a bad back. My father-in-law mostly stays in the guest room.

My sister-in-law sleeps on the pull-out couch in the living room and my brother-in-law sleeps on a mattress on the living room floor. Because of the sleeping arrangement, I've been forced to confine myself to my childhood bedroom and I was not happy about this at all. My wife is pregnant and I really wanted to be there by her side whenever she went into labor, which could be any time now according to her OB slash GYN. But instead, it's my mother-in-law who's going to be there first and I'll admit, I did resent her for it.

My wife has always been very close to her family, but I didn't think she needed her entire family to move in for her pregnancy and felt this was a bit excessive. But since she was really pregnant and emotional, I didn't argue with her and let her have it her way. I knew that my wife wanted them around because her family's presence comforted her, and if that's what my eight-month pregnant wife wanted, then I wouldn't deny her that. But unfortunately, the past three weeks were incredibly difficult for me because her family are not the easiest people to live with. Her siblings are really lazy and constantly need to be reminded to clean up after themselves

and my mother-in-law just keeps nitpicking everything that we own and has made it a habit of complaining about my parents' taste in furniture and color since she didn't approve of the way my child home had been done up by my parents. The only person who wasn't much trouble to deal with was my father-in-law who mostly restricted himself to the guest room and didn't come out for anything except for meals. I will be blunt, I didn't mind my wife's siblings or her father, but I did mind my mother-in-law since she had been exceptionally rude and crass ever since she'd moved in. Her nitpicking got on my nerves and the way she'd speak badly about my parents' taste was annoying because they've been kind enough to let us have such a spacious house with the furniture

for free. In this economy, a house like this would have cost my wife and me a fortune since it was really big and was located in a nice neighborhood as well. I don't even want to think of the price had it been pre-furnished, but I was still willing to put up with all of this simply because my wife wanted these people by her side and that's all that mattered to me. So I let them stay and try to stay out of any unnecessary drama as far as possible. I can't count the number of times I've had to bite my tongue in the past three weeks, but I finally could no longer take it and forced all of them to get the hell out two days ago. I'd left for work like every other day in the morning and my wife had also been out with my mother-in-law for a routine checkup. My sister-in-law

was on winter break and had decided to spend the day with a couple of her friends. The only people at home were my father-in-law and my brother-in-law because everyone else would be out. About half an hour away from home, I realized that I'd left my laptop back at home. I realized that I'd left my laptop back at home and it brought along my wife's laptop instead. I wouldn't get any work done without it anyway since all the files I needed were on my company's laptop, so I was forced to go back and I'm really thankful that I forgot the laptop because once I got home, I realized that something really fishy was going on. I walked into a completely empty living room which was weird because the couch was usually occupied by my brother-in-law or my sister-in-law or both.

but I didn't have time to worry about that so I decided to walk back to my room instead. There, I found my brother-in-law sitting with his back to the door and using my laptop. He's very into tech stuff and I knew that if he was using my laptop, it couldn't be for a good cause. So I confronted him but he refused to tell me what exactly he'd been up to and I'm not very tech-savvy myself so I couldn't tell what he'd been doing either. I told him that I'd call the cops if he didn't tell me and he seemed to be a little intimidated. by that so he confessed that he'd been copying all my data from my laptop to a pen drive that he'd then give to my wife. He'd already done so with my phone a few days back while I was asleep but getting a hold of my laptop had been a little tricky since it was always either

in my room or with me in the office. So my wife had swapped it for her own this morning, hoping that I wouldn't realize until the work was done but unfortunately, I'd realized midway and had come back home sooner than expected. He tried to explain that he hadn't been on board with this since it was unethical and a gross invasion of my privacy but my wife had actually paid him to do this for her. I was shocked that my wife had done such a thing and luckily, she came back home from her appointment with her doctor within half an hour of my return. She knew as soon as she saw my face and her brother's face that she'd messed up and immediately dragged me to her room to talk to me in person. Her mother stood there in the corner,

sulking and glaring at my brother-in-law so I knew that she was definitely involved in this somehow and I turned out to be right as well. My wife apologized for going behind my back first and foremost, but then, she confessed that she'd been trying to spy on me and that's why she'd asked her brother to copy everything he found on my devices so that she could go through it all and check if there was anything suspicious that I'd been hiding. I was incredibly insulted and asked her why exactly she'd done such a thing because as far as I was concerned, I'd never shown any interest in any other women and neither did I ever

indicate that I was bored with my marriage. I loved my wife and I thought she loved me, too. So I couldn't understand for the life of me why she had felt the need to spy on me all of a sudden. I was furious and couldn't keep my cool which she did realize from my voice. I'd already been struggling to keep my temper under control because of how my in-laws had been getting on my very last nerve and this was just the last straw for me, so I kind of blew up at her and she ended up breaking down into tears afterward. I obviously felt guilty because I didn't intend to make my pregnant wife cry and felt like a total jerk for doing so. So then I tried to comfort her and while I held her hands, she told me why exactly she'd done something like this. And just as I'd suspected,

this was all my mother-in-law's fault. For the past three weeks, at night, her mother had been warning her about how men tend to cheat on their wives if they get too big while they're pregnant and she needs to lose some weight as soon as she has the baby because her mother believes that my wife is too big in spite of the fact that she's eight months pregnant. For days, she'd been reminding her that she needed to eat less to look attractive or else I'd inevitably end up looking for love somewhere else. This woman had been filling my wife's head with all sorts of bull crap about how she was getting too big and making her feel insecure every damn day. This is what would go on in her head before going to bed and her emotions were already in overdrive due to the hormonation. She ended up doing something really stupid and paid her brother to hack into my devices to make sure her mother wasn't right and I wasn't actually cheating. She hadn't had the opportunity of going through anything yet and she was practically requesting me not to leave her over this after she explained her reasons to me.

I felt horrible, not just because my wife had felt compelled to do this and had suspected me of cheating but also because I knew exactly why my mother-in-law had been doing this. My wife's family is mostly on the skinnier side and their women are really petite, as they say. My wife, however, is kind of tall, well-built, and on the kovya side. Now to most people, this would seem attractive but it's always been an insecurity for her. My wife had told me about her complicated relationship with food, her body, and her mother in the initial years of our relationship. Growing up, her mother was an almond mom who believed that strictly monitoring my wife's portion. and making sure she ate way less than what was required of her would ensure that she doesn't grow up to be a fat cow which is what she used to refer to my wife when she was in her teens and had gained a lot of weight. Her mom's strict diet regimes had led to an eating disorder which was inevitable because my mother-in-law was obsessed with how her daughter's body looked and didn't want it to appear unseemly in the slightest.

And by unseemly I mean chubby, which my wife naturally is. It's God-given and I don't mind it. Heck, I don't even give a damn about it because I love my wife for who she is. Not because of her body or because I find her attractive, which I do but there's way more to her as a person that I love and admire. My wife did manage to lose a lot of weight in college since she was then living away from her mother and was finally able to build a healthier relationship with food and exercise and she's stayed at the same weight since then more or less. She's tried her best to win over her mother and I used to think that things have changed but clearly not. Her mother was still the same awful person and it's unlikely that she was even capable of changing anymore.

Even while her own daughter was pregnant, she kept pushing her to lose weight which is insane because my wife's literally growing another human being inside her. In fact, their visit to the doctor was regarding her weight because her mother believed that she was too fat and was overreating again. She told me that she'd been really stupid and was sobbing while telling me not to leave her and promise to lose weight. That's how hysterical she was. Not being able to bear it anymore, I decided to give her a comforting hug to calm her down. I told her that I didn't care about how much she weighed and that I just wanted her to be happy and healthy, which seemed to pacify her a bit. I told her to stay in her room and then left to force my in-laws to leave because I'd seen enough and I'd heard enough. I couldn't take this anymore and there was no way in hell I was letting my mother-in-law near my wife again.

So I told them to leave and my father-in-law and brother-in-law were ready to go but it was, as expected, my mother-in-law who kicked up a fuss and refused to leave saying that this was her daughter's house and she didn't need my permission to live here. I reminded her that this was actually the house that I'd inherited for my parents whom she seems to hate and so, she could either leave on her own or I'd be glad to call the cops and have her escorted away. After some arguing, my father-in-law finally forced her to leave with him. Since then, I've been spending all my time at home with my wife and reassuring her that she'll be just fine because that episode had taken a toll on her. I can't imagine why a mother would put her own child through such emotional turmoil, especially when they're pregnant and already going through so much.

But that's the kind of woman my mother-in-law is and she even had the audacity to text me yesterday and demand that I let her move back in so that she can take care of. of my wife. I was livid when I read that and in the heat of the moment, I told her that she'd be lucky if I ever even let her around my wife or baby in the future ever again. Having said that, I blocked her but this morning, my father-in-law who's a usually silent man, called me up and told me that I owe my mother-in-law an apology because she's been inconsolable since last night. She can't bear the thought of being separated from her daughter and her future grandkid and insists that she only wants the best for us. I'd offer refusing to let my mother-in-law see my wife after she'd been forcing her to feel bad about her body while she was eight months pregnant.

Update 1, Hey, Everybody. So first of all, thanks to everyone who commented on the original post. My heart truly goes out to everyone out there who's had to face similar experiences. I really can't imagine how awful it must have been for you guys, but I truly and genuinely hope that someday, you guys are able to move past the trauma of being shamed and harassed just for your body type. I truly wish that for everyone. My wife's been doing a lot better now that we've gone completely NC with her family and it's been close to a week since we last heard from any of them. She hadn't even wanted her family to come live with her in the first place but her mother had forced her to arrange that, that evil old hag. Not only had she driven her nuts during

her stay here, but she'd been bothering my wife since the beginning of her pregnancy and nagging at her about her weight constantly. I felt guilty because this thing with her mother had totally slipped my mind and I was just focused on providing a safe space for her and the baby during the pregnancy and had forgotten to consider other factors like my dear mother-in-law. My wife told me that she'd been feeling really insecure about her body once again now that she was living with her mother and that's what had made her act so crazy and suspicious, but she was over it now and promised to never do something so weird ever again. But honestly, I was more worried about her and her mental health.

I'd forgiven the whole situation with her brother and what she'd made him do because that was just her being overly emotional and paranoid. Thanks to all the bull crap that her mother had been saying. I told her that she could eat all that she wanted to and it literally was nobody else's business but her own. I also informed her about what I'd said to her mother when she texted me a few days back, and she said that I'd done the right thing. Even though she doesn't want to see her again

and I'm not about to let it happen, either because that woman is literally the devil incarnate. She'd made my wife's life a living hell and I wouldn't even have let her set foot into my house had it not been for my wife's insistence. That had been a huge mistake, but at least I know better now and am not about to let that happen again.

If she needs any help at all before or after the baby is born, we'll get in touch with trained professionals because clearly, her family is not a go-to option for us anymore like it had been earlier. And while I'd love to have my parents involved, I'm not about to bother them since they love their peaceful life on the outskirts. They've promised me to come visit when my wife goes into labor since they're only a three-hour drive away but I'm not going to bother them before that day comes. For now, I'm working from home and trying to make up for lost time with my wife since she'd really been through a rough patch and I'm making sure she's eating enough as well. I really, really hope

things go smoothly for us from now onwards because I don't think either of us is mentally equipped to deal with more hiccups. Not at such a late stage in the pregnancy, at least. My wife's due in a couple of weeks and I just want these last few weeks to be just as smooth sailing as it had been earlier. Update 2. So my mother-in-law decided to make a reappearance just as we'd started to think that we'd managed to get rid of her. It's been close to ten days since I kicked her out and this morning, my wife and I woke up to someone banging on the door and screaming their head off. She recognized her mother's voice and instantly demanded that we call the cops, which we did and within half an hour, they'd come by and escorted her off our property but it didn't end there.

Even after the cops had taken her away, she decided to continue trying to contact us and even involved our next door neighbors by demanding that they pass on a message to us. Our neighbor is a single woman in her late 40s and it was pretty awkward for her, but she told us that my mother-in-law had come by a few minutes ago, handed her a note, and told her to pass it on to us. The note was for my wife and it said that she needed to leave me and go back to her family so that her mother could look after her. Or else she'd be really disappointed in my wife.

Well, good for my wife that she's an adult woman and doesn't need to be looked after by someone like her. I don't know if I did the right thing or not, but I crumpled that note. up and tossed it in the bin, where it belongs without even reading it to my wife and she didn't ask about the contents of it either. I told my wife that things had gone far enough and we needed to start thinking about legal action against her and she agreed. So we've decided to file for a restraining order against her because, after everything that's happened so far, I can't think of a single conceivable way that can end happily for all of us with her still being a part of our lives. I just cannot envision her in our future anymore.

Maybe if the rest of her family apologizes then I still might consider it but not her mother. That woman has put my wife through hell and back throughout her childhood, her teenage years, and now even during pregnancy. I made the mistake of letting her into my wife's life once, but I'm not about to make that same mistake yet again. Update 3. Hey, everybody. So I'm here after almost a month and a lot of things have. happened since my last update here. My wife and I are parents to a wonderful baby girl now and trust me, we're going to do a way better job as parents than what my in-laws did. My wife is already an excellent mother and I'm trying to be a good father as well. Part of that was making sure my

mother-in-law had no access to her grandchild so we managed to get a restraining order against her for two years a few weeks before my wife gave birth. Her mother was hysterical when she was served and contacted a bunch of people including my parents, a couple of our friends, one of my wife's cousins, and other relatives of hers so that at least one of them would put her through to my wife but all of them knew how terrible our relationship with her was now so they were wise enough not to contact us on her behalf. They did tell us about the calls but we didn't care. A few weeks after that, my wife finally went into labor and after almost 18 hours, we had our daughter with us. It was crazy that we were finally parents and it was very emotional for us.

I could tell that my wife was very upset a few hours after birth that nobody else from her family had bothered to show up or even asked her how she'd been doing for the past couple of weeks and I was worried that this would put her at risk for postpartum depression so I got in touch with a counselor as soon as I could and convinced my wife to start seeing a mental health professional so that she wouldn't have to feel like she was taking on the world all by herself. Luckily, she did heed my advice and has been doing online sessions with the guy I put her in touch with and I'm hoping it makes her feel better. Apart from all of that, we're seriously having the time of our life with our daughter and I hope that she grows up to be just as wonderful a human being as her mother is, if not more. My parents are going to visit in a week or two. They've had to postpone their visit since my uncle fell sick, but I'm actually kind of glad to have this time with my family.

It's just the three of us right now and I feel so at peace with everything when I'm around my two loves. I don't mean to gush, but this just feels like our family is complete now. That's the end of the first story. Let's begin the second one. I hope you enjoy this story. Relative by marriage attempted to bribe me to conceal her extramarital relationship. I acquiesced for an extended period until the individual she was involved with coerced me, prompting me to unintentionally divulge their clandestine affair.

Well, here goes nothing. To keep this as short as possible. I, 22F, have an older brother, 26M, and he's been married to his girlfriend of two years for about six months. My brother and I don't get along at all and haven't been on good terms since high school when he spread a rumor about me, that I was a kleptomaniac and people had to be wary of me. He did this because he was mad at me for telling his then-girlfriend that he'd been flirting with another girl who had a bio with him. My brother was a bit of a playboy in high school

and he had a reputation for messing around with multiple girls at a time because he thought that made him look cool. So when I told his then-girlfriend that he'd been cheating on her, she confronted him in the cafeteria and there was a whole thing that went down where she totally humiliated him in front of all his cronies. He found out somehow that I'd tattled and to retaliate. He spread that rumor about me, of course, everyone believed him because he was 18 and a senior on the varsity football team and I was just a 14-year-old freshman. He ruined the next couple of years of my life with that rumor because I was already kind of unattractive and dorky in high school with braces so a rumor like this was the last thing I needed. I got bullied relentlessly for the next four

years after my brother graduated and I didn't even get to attend prom or homecoming or any of the other events because nobody wanted to be seen with me. That's how bad the bullying was. I had a couple of friends who were only with me because they'd also been bullied so that was some solace, but still, my brother had totally ruined my high school experience with what he did and it stayed with me. That kind of bullying is enough to scar anyone for life. And the saddest part was that I hadn't even offered that information to his girlfriend voluntarily. She cornered me after school one day and demanded to know if the other girl had anything to do with my brother and I just got too intimidated because she was a senior and a lot bigger than me physically so I told her the truth.

I didn't want any trouble and I also didn't want to lie because I felt that both the other girl and his girlfriend deserved better than to be cheated on. If I'd known that what I did that day would backfire in the worst possible way, then I probably would have just kept my mouth shut. That was back then and after he started that rumor, I just stopped talking to him. I still had to live with him under the same roof, but that was it and I tried my very best to avoid conversation with him at any cost. He moved out for college after a few months, but even when he'd come back home for the holidays, I'd avoid him like the plague. I wouldn't say I went and see with him after I moved out because that wasn't possible because both of us would come back for the holidays and our parents had instructed us both

to be on our best behavior around our relatives, so we tried our best to civil to each other for our parents' sake, but that's about it. I didn't have any intention of attending his wedding either, but my mother told me that it'd be really strange if I didn't and my parents care a lot about putting up appearances, so I did as they said, and I think I got lucky that I did because that's how I found out about my sister-in-law's affair. My sister-in-law, Chloe, 28F, I'm using a fake name for her, had been with my brother for two years before they got married. They'd met through a common friend. She'd never been very nice to me, whenever we used to meet at holidays and stuff, and would always act stuck up. I didn't find that very surprising since she was my brother's girlfriend, so I never

made an effort to get to know her either and neither of us like the other. On the day of her wedding, about half an hour after the ceremony was over and I'd had my lunch, I decided that it was time to leave. At the time, Chloe had told everyone that she was going back to the hotel to change into something more comfortable so she could join in on the celebration and had been gone for ten minutes when I took my leave. On my way to the parking lot, however, I caught her making out with one of my brother's friends, Marcus, in a desolate corner where nobody would be able to see them but unfortunately, my car was parked a few spots away from where they were standing. I was stunned and didn't even know what to say but then, Chloe spotted me and tore away from

Marcus as quickly as she could. I was frozen in my place and watched her push Marcus away and tell him to leave. He made a run for it and she decided to approach me. I didn't say a word while she talked to me and explained that while my brother was a wonderful guy and she knew that he'd always provide for her, her heart wanted something else, which just meant that my brother was rich enough for her to marry, but Marcus was the one she loved. I was repulsed because I always did look down on gold diggers, but then Chloe requested me to keep this quiet and she'd give me whatever I wanted. Something just clicked at that point and I decided that I wanted to get back at my brother for everything that he'd put me through. Had it been someone else that was getting cheated on,

I would have definitely spoken up and let them know, but my brother himself had taught me the importance of staying silent sometimes. He'd been the one to teach me that just because you know things, doesn't mean you have to say things back in high school. So I told Chloe that I'd keep quiet but only if she'd be willing to pay me one grand every month. I knew that my brother made a decent amount of money and Chloe had a somewhat okay income as well but it wasn't as much as my brothers. He's a data analyst and Chloe works at the front desk in a hotel so they could definitely afford to spare one grand for me every month. Chloe had initially been a little resistant. but I reminded her that she herself had told me that she was ready to offer me anything and I'd named my

price so the ball was now in her court. She could either agree to my terms and send me the money every month or I could go and tell my brother everything, I was fine with either. She tried to negotiate, but I put my foot down and refused to back down so eventually, she had to agree. I'd been working as an HR representative at a firm after I graduated from college and I can live nicely. One grand isn't something I wouldn't be able to do without, but it definitely did help. Not only financially, but I also felt great knowing that I was getting back at my brother and his wife for being horrible to me. That's the way it had been for the last six months until last week. Marcus decided to pay me a visit out of the blue. I could see through the cameras outside that he'd bought a cake with him to make it look like it was

my birthday or something and I guess that that's how he'd gotten past security, by saying it was a surprise. I didn't trust him at all and was skeptical about letting him into my apartment. so he spoke to me from right outside the door. Apparently, Chloe had finally told him about our little arrangement and he didn't like it so he'd come over to talk to me and tell me that I needed to back off. He said that I couldn't just blackmail Chloe like this and told me that if I tried to get in touch with her again,

then he'd make sure that I'd have hell to pay. I was really pissed off and told him to leave me alone, and he did, but only after he reminded me that he was capable of turning my life into a total nightmare if he put his mind to it. He left the cake for me at the door and it said nothing apart from the B word and icing. I hate his guts but I've got to hand it to him.

He does know how to execute the theatrics just perfectly. After threatening me, Marcus went away and I decided to make the call and inform my brother about what Chloe had been up to for God knows how long. I was furious that she'd even dared to send someone to threaten me because as far as I was concerned, I was holding up my end of the deal well and hadn't breathed a word of what I'd caught her doing to anyone at all. and she'd had the audacity to let Marcus threaten me. I knew that she knew about Marcus' visit because after he left,

I checked my phone to call her first, but I realized that she'd blocked me, which is why I decided to call my brother up. Fortunately, he did answer the call and I told him everything, including the bribes, and said that now he could do whatever he wanted to with that information and hung up before he could respond. Then I kept my phone aside and went for a short walk to clear my head. I came back to more than 50 texts and 10 missed calls from Chloe accusing me of ruining her life. My mother had also called me and I decided to call her back to understand what exactly was happening.

Apparently, my brother had already suspected her of cheating because she'd been stupid enough to leave her phone unlocked around him several times and he'd read a couple of texts from Marcus but they weren't Sue's texts so my brother didn't mind it but he did question her on why exactly she'd speak to Marcus so often because it's not like they were friends, as far as he knew. She'd convinced him that they were friends now and it was all platonic but today, after I told my brother what was going on behind his back, he confronted Chloe and realized that she'd been stringing him along all this while after he checked her phone. Now he's about to file for divorce and is absolutely devastated. My parents are furious with me because I enabled this for six whole months and want me to apologize to my brother and return the money to him because it's blackmail money. I don't agree with what they're saying at all because first of all, I don't even think this is

technically blackmail. She's the one who offered to do something for me. I know she probably meant to get me a spa treatment for free at the hotel or something less conspicuous than this, but this is what I wanted and she agreed to my terms. It wasn't blackmail, it was just a deal that his wife had struck up with me to keep her secret. Fair and square. So I don't understand what they're so up in arms about when it's Chloe they should be mad at right now. On top of that, the expectation that I'll apologize to my brother and return the money to him is absolutely ridiculous. I don't owe him either of those and I'm definitely not going to do it. He was a jerk to me and ruined four years of my life with his stupid rumor and I haven't been able to get over that still.

As for the money, that's between Chloe and me and since I held up my end of the deal, I think I'm definitely entitled to what I got and I'm not paying anyone back. I told my parents that I wasn't doing either of those things so now they're threatening to cut me out of their lives for good because I've turned into someone they don't recognize anymore. It's been a week and I haven't yet spoken to them but they remind me every day that what I did was really very messed up, but I honestly don't think so. I'd for taking bribes from my sister-in-law to hide her affair from my brother because my brother started a rumor about me in high school. Update 1, hi, so I did what everyone here suggested and I decided to go and see with my family.

This incident finally made me realize that my parents were also just as bad as my brother and I'm actually better off without all of them. They just suck and haven't ever been nice or kind to me. Everything they used to was just to make it seem like we were a happy family on the surface, but I know the truth. I know that they never stood up for me and let me get bullied for years without a word because they didn't want to get into it. They never reprimanded my brother either for starting the rumor

because of the same reason and dismissed it as normal sibling rivalry when they could see very clearly that he'd made me suffer badly. Nobody had bullied him after his girlfriend yelled at him in the cafeteria. it was just one bad day for him. But to retaliate for one bad day, he ruined four years of my life and even then, I continued to try and act normal around him just for the sake of my parents because I wanted to be a good daughter to them. Just for some crumbs of affection and validation but I'm not going to get any of that. Even my brother and I were close growing up and only grew apart when he started high school because he was suddenly too cool for his little sister and I

was too dorky to be seen with him. So really, my entire family has been nothing but shallow and cruel and I'm actually glad that I'm finally done with them. They were never going to love me and they were never going to change. Even with this incident, they found a scapegoat and tried to make me the bad guy without even caring about why I'd done what I'd done. Had they tried to fix things for me back when I was suffering or intervened and made my brother be a decent freaking person to me, then maybe I wouldn't have done something so extreme and unnecessary to him just for revenge. But they don't care about my past. All they care about is that I ruined my brother's future and his marriage. I'm selfish, I'm heartless, and I'm a criminal and so much more, but he's just

their perfect little boy, who, by the way, is in his late 20s. I was foolish to ever expect that my family would be kind to me and I was an even bigger fool to continue to stay in touch with my brother, after what he did to me just so that my parents wouldn't be mad at me. I should have just cut him off after I moved out for college and let that be the end of whatever little relationship we still had. But as they say, every cloud has a silver lining, so I'm going to choose to look at the bright side of this. Karma finally got him and now,

he's going to experience the pain that he'd put so many girls and women through during his high school and college days just so that he could appear cool and desirable to his other lame guy friends. The cheater finally gets cheated on, life has come full circle for him. All I'm going to do is just grab the popcorn and wait for the drama to unfold because I've earned this. It's not like I'm walking away totally empty-handed because my sister-in-law's bribes still covered half of my rent for a couple of months and it was great while it lasted. So right now, I have no regrets to speak of. It's been two weeks since I put up

my original post and thank you to everyone who commented because that did help a lot more than I expected. I mulled over it, sulked about it, and even wept a lot, but finally, I did manage to block all my family members everywhere I could. I've also told security not to let any of my family visit me so there's just no way they can get to me unless I choose to let them. As for Marcus and Chloe, they've pretty much been MIA ever since the news broke. I have no updates on them since we don't have any friends in common. I can still get updates on what my family's up to from time to time from a couple of cousins of mine, but I have no clue about them. In a way, it's quite relaxing since I don't have to worry about anyone now and can just live

the way I want or without giving a damn about my parents. I feel a lot less burdened than I used to and I love this feeling. I don't need any of them back either. Update 2. Okay, quick update. I just learned that the reason Chloe has been so quiet is because she's pregnant. And things are really messy right now between her and my brother, but my parents are obviously blaming me for it. One of my cousins who still follows them on Facebook sent me a post by my dad where he'd named and shamed me for ruining my brother's marriage over some petty high school grudge. It's not my brother's fault that he was cheating back then and neither is it Chloe's fault that she'd been cheating on my brother. It's all somehow my fault. He's posted about what has

happened but has left out all the important details, including the fact that Chloe was the one who had tried to make a deal with me first and not the other way around. It's not like I caught her with Marcus and then forced her to cough up money every month or else I'd spill the beans. I didn't even have that idea until she made an offer so they really can't use the term blackmail here, that's literally just ridiculous. And my older relatives, my aunts and uncles who are around my parents' age or older are obviously on their side because they don't know my side of the story and be, even if they knew, they wouldn't care because my parents have made it very clear that I'm the one at fault here and I'm the one who needs to be put in my place.

So they've taken it upon themselves to send me several texts expressing their disappointment and discussed regarding my actions and they're even saying that they expected better from me. Which is just so crazy because literally who even are these people. They only ever used to care about me during the holidays and even then, our conversations would be strained and weird. I don't consider my extended family close at all so it's ridiculous that they even expect something from me. They don't even know me well enough to expect anything. Let's start there. And my dad hasn't put up the story about how I got bullied relentlessly because of my brother's rumor. He's conveniently left that very important detail and passed that incident off as

petty when it really wasn't. He has no idea how hard those four years were for me. I was totally on my own with barely anyone to have my back, be it at school or at home, and I'll pray that no other kid has to go through something like that. It broke me and no, I don't think I'll ever just get over it. They just want to act like the victims right now and make it seem like everything was my fault, but unfortunately, I'm not going to let them get away with it. I've posted my side of the story as well so that they can't control the narrative. It's just been 15 minutes since I posted and I don't have the nerve to check my notifications right now because I'm not prepared for all the hate. that I might get. But I know for sure a couple of my friends and some family members definitely

will stand by my side on this one. I'm just hoping that the positivity outweighs the negativity. Honestly, I'm just done with my family. They're literally the human version of a bad migraine and I can't wait for this drama to blow over. Update 3, Hey Everybody. So it's been about three days since I shared my side of the story and it got quite popular among people who went to school with my brother and me. Unfortunately, that post also reached another woman from my brother's year and she publicly dragged my brother for lying to her about his marital status. She'd read my post and then read the post that my dad had posted for context and since it was a public post, she'd been able to find it easily. So then she put two and two together and shared that apparently,

my brother who was acting so devastated that his wife had cheated on him with his friend was not too far behind her. About a month ago, this woman had been visiting the city since she'd moved out of state after high school ended. My brother replied to one of her stories on Instagram, struck up a conversation with her, and asked her out on a date and they did get intimate as well later on. He didn't tell her he was married and he'd very cleverly used a burner account to text her instead of his real profile where he had pictures with Chloe. Apparently, he uses that account to stock women he knows, so at least he's smarter than Chloe. So this unsuspecting woman kept her meeting with him a secret for ages and then when she left, my brother had even

promised to keep in touch but then blocked her everywhere after she went back and it was only now that she found out the whole truth. It was crazy that my brother had done this but it wasn't surprising because, after all, a cheater will always remain a cheater. It's just hilarious that he ended up with another one of his kind as well and now, they're caught in a divorce and what's going to be a very interesting custody battle because Chloe doesn't even know who the father of her child is yet. I've obviously been having the time of my life hearing about all the drama that's been going on with them because this was the guy who was extremely cruel to me as a teenager and scarred me for life. And now, life was dealing him even worse cards. This is just karma at its best and it's so damn

entertaining for me because I don't care about them now, so I'm just watching it all unfold like a real-life soap opera.