Her face fell, the color draining from her cheeks. “What… what are you saying?”
I straightened, picking up my purse.
“I’m saying… I just don’t feel close enough to you to make that kind of commitment.”
She looked at me, her face contorting in shock and hurt. “Susan, sweetie… please. I… I’ll do anything.
We can get closer. I’ll make it up to you!”
I stood up, looking down at her, my heart strangely calm. “I’ll be sure to send you a ‘thinking of you’ card.”
And I walked out.
Dave was furious when I told him!
Not at me, but at his mom for a change! For the first time, he saw through her. He confronted her and told her how wrong she was to manipulate me.
Cynthia called, texted, and begged me.
She even showed up at our house once, tears streaming down her face. I watched her from the window, standing on the porch, looking so small and vulnerable as she offered to “make things right.”
But I didn’t open the door.
She eventually found another donor. It wasn’t me or Dave.
And once she recovered? She went right back to hating me, colder and crueler than before!
But this time, it didn’t hurt. Because now, I knew the truth.
She never wanted a daughter-in-law (DIL).
She wanted a spare body part.
And I wanted nothing to do with her.
Sadly, Susan isn’t the only daughter-in-law with a horrible mother-in-law (MIL). In the following story, Lucy’s MIL also didn’t like her but seemed to come around when she bought her and her husband a Christmas tree. On Christmas Day, something bad happened, exposing the real reason why Lucy’s MIL brought the tree.
Source: amomama
