Mom Refuses To Help MIL Who Abandoned Her Family When They Were Homeless, Laughs In Her Face
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Johny in
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On 14th February 2023
Even if you don't believe in fate or karma, you can't deny that the universe has a weird way of delivering people precisely what they deserve at times. Try asking for aid after previously denying it to someone else. How the tables have shifted!
Redditor u/Evening-Still2174 revealed her family's ups and downs over the last few years. She told the AITA community about how she, her husband, and their three children became homeless in 2020. Despite her prior assurances, the woman's mother-in-law refused to assist them, which came back to haunt her later on. Scroll down to read the entire story.
A woman described how her mother-in-law abandoned her relatives when they most needed her aid
Things started to get worse in 2020, with the start of the Covid-19 virus
The mother, her husband, and their children were evicted from their house. Their relatives had not been very kind
However, things quickly altered dramatically
The mother-in-law soon realized she had gotten a taste of her own medicine
The creator of the article, u/Evening-Still2174, demonstrated that everything is achievable if you put your mind to it. Despite the fact that she and her family had to live in a vehicle and later a homeless shelter, they recovered spectacularly.
They not only built their own house from the ground up (something yours truly hopes to achieve eventually), but they also started their own company. They are now financially secure and quite happy. What more could you ask for?
The script has completely reversed by 2023. While the OP and her family are enjoying their hard-earned prosperity, her mother-in-law is struggling to make ends meet. She has suffered financially, lost her retirement, and may be evicted.
Fearing losing her home, she turned to her son and daughter-in-law for assistance. However, the OP laughed in her MIL's face. "I will admit that my first reaction was to outright laugh at her and her audacity. She looked immediately offended and uncomfortable, especially after I stated there wasn’t a chance of that happening," she writes.
The woman was still unsure about how she should have responded to her mother-in-law's request so she turned to the internet for guidance
However, several of the woman's acquaintances suspected that she had addressed the situation incorrectly. This is what first led her to share the message on the AITA subreddit. The majority of readers sided with the woman. After how she treated them, they pointed out that she has done nothing wrong by rejecting her mother-in-law. They recognized that it was a harsh reaction, but it was justified.
Child homelessness is a far bigger problem than many people realize
It's one thing to refuse to assist your destitute family; it's quite another to offer them assistance and then break your word. Because of this behavior, the MIL was unable to seek assistance when she was the one in need. Unfortunately, just because someone is your blood relative does not automatically make them a decent person. Not everyone makes an excellent parent or grandparent.
According to the Eviction Lab, which monitors the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic in nine states and 32 cities, landlords filed roughly 1.8 million evictions between the middle of March 2020 and January 7, 2023. Pennsylvania (206k), Virginia (180.7k), and Indiana had the most evictions filed (150k). Following the lifting of the moratoriums imposed at the outset of the epidemic, there has been a general increase in the number of evictions.
According to 2021 research by the Childcare Services Association, 1 in 18 children under the age of 6 suffers homelessness in the United States each year. That equates to 1.3 million babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Meanwhile, SAMHSA notes that child homelessness is often underestimated. Based on the findings of a report done in 2013, the “typical family experiencing homelessness” in the US “consists of an African-American mother under the age of 27 with two small children; 51% of children who experience homelessness are under the age of six.”
Most readers were on the woman's side. Here's what they thought about the family drama
