From real life. “Mother-in-law decided to ruin our lives”: She keeps poking her nose into our affairs and making up rumors about me

Even before he met me, my husband had a stable job with career prospects, so he took out a mortgage on his own apartment.

He didn't want to pay rent when he could invest the same amount in his own apartment every month.

Then he met me and we started living together almost immediately. After meeting my future mother-in-law, I immediately realized that we would never find common ground with this person. She honestly believed and still believes that I was with her son only because of money and his apartment.

Yes, of course. That's why I started helping him pay off the mortgage as quickly as possible. But that's no argument for my mother-in-law. I work in a supermarket as a deputy director. I don't earn much, but I have enough for everything. I always give part of my salary to my husband to pay it off early, we want to move from his pre-wedding one-room apartment to a two-room apartment.

My mother-in-law lived in the countryside with her husband. When he died, she didn't want to live alone for long. She decided to sell the house in the countryside and buy an apartment in our building, but with a different entrance. That's when our peace ended, my mother-in-law started coming over every day and poking her nose everywhere.

She even wanted to get to my chest of drawers with underwear, but I managed to pull her away just in time. I have never been a spendthrift, but I like to dress nicely and take care of myself. I never spend much on all these activities, I do my own manicures, I order clothes online, it's cheaper, I rarely go to beauty salons, I prefer home care.

Of course, all this requires money, but many of my friends spend ten times more on all of the above than I do. My mother-in-law first got to the heart of my clothes: “Why do you have two winter jackets?” Yes, I have two jackets: one short and sporty, and the other a warm down jacket that I wear in freezing temperatures. I don't see any extraordinary exaggeration here. When my mother-in-law saw two pairs of winter boots in the hallway, she started crying again. Yes, two pairs, one to get wet, the other to replace.

It may seem like a lot to some, but it's been like that my whole life. Her complaints didn't end there. Every time she comes to our house, she immediately runs to the kitchen and looks into our fridge. “You can take the most necessary things. Why buy such expensive cereals and pasta when there are cheaper ones?” – she exclaims. She doesn't understand that I work in a store and I can take something home.

I once shouted at her when she started to get indignant about my bag again, she got offended and went home. She didn't express any more indignation in front of me, and now she's confusing my husband. I thought my husband would get fed up with her, but to my surprise he started listening to her. “How much does this sweater? cost” he asked me when I unpacked the package from the online store. I spoke honestly with my husband and assured him that I don't spend too much. Like every woman, I want to look beautiful, but at the same time I try not to cause too much damage to the family budget.

My mother-in-law has a new quirk lately. Now she thinks I'm cheating on her son or will do it at every opportunity. A few weeks ago, my husband went to work in another city for three days. My mother-in-law came to my place in the evening and stayed until late at night. After I tactfully pointed to the door, she told me that she was afraid to spend the night alone in her apartment.

She had lived alone for so many years, and now she was suddenly afraid. “My neighbor was robbed last week, so now I'm scared,” she said. I told her that she should give me the keys to her apartment, I'll sleep there, and my mother-in-law can stay here. She sighed and went to her apartment. “You did the right thing,” her husband said. At least he supported me here, but it didn't end there.

Now my mother-in-law tries to get into my phone every time, and she even persuades my husband to do the same. She always comes up with something new, she made friends with an old lady from the neighboring building and now they sit together on a bench. My mother-in-law complains that I'm a spendthrift. I can't even imagine what else she'll come up with. My husband was recently invited by friends for a night fishing trip, and my mother-in-law probably won't leave me alone during that time.

Once, when my husband was away, I simply didn't open the door for her, pretending that I wasn't there. She told my husband that I came with some guy in a car, spent time with him somewhere, and then took a taxi home and just didn't open the door for her. I really can't wait to move out of here, because living so close to my mother-in-law is just a nightmare.

She sits by the window every day waiting for me to come home from work, counts our money, and always sticks her nose in other people's business.