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- A woman says she won’t be staying at her mother-in-law’s house after being told she would have to sleep in the basement four years ago
- In a post on Reddit, she writes that she and her husband asked to sleep in an upstairs bedroom, but were told instead they would be relegated to the unfinished basement
- Weeks later, they learned the mother-in-law allowed a family friend to sleep in the upstairs bedroom
A woman says she’s no longer comfortable staying at her mother-in-law’s house after being told she would have to sleep in the basement.
In a post shared to Reddit, the anonymous woman explained that she and her husband told his mother they would be coming to town for a day and needed a place to sleep for the night. The woman noted that she was pregnant at the time, but they “hadn’t told anyone yet because we were waiting on my doctor appointment to officially confirm.”
When her husband asked his mom if they could sleep upstairs in his grandmother’s old room — which is “close to the bathroom and has better air circulation” — they were told yes.
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But one week before their trip, the poster’s mother-in-law called “crying and saying she doesn’t feel comfortable with us sleeping in there.” Instead, she said they’d need to sleep in the basement, which is unfinished and without a working bathroom. His mother added that “if we don’t want to stay in the basement then we need to stay in a hotel.”
“Now a hotel wasn’t initially in our cards because we were only staying for a short time but I then felt uncomfortable and we paid for the hotel,” she wrote.
“Two weeks later I heard that she allowed her family friend to stay in the same room we asked to stay in and she didn’t feel uncomfortable with her,” she continued.
It’s now been four years since the incident and the couple has yet to stay at her house again. The woman added that her mother-in-law “doesn’t even offer” when they come to town. Still, the poster turned to Reddit to ask if she was in the wrong for no longer asking to stay at her in-law’s home.
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Other Reddit users shared their own takes on the situation in the comments.
“You were never welcome to begin with. That is what she was hinting at without saying it,” one person wrote.
Another added, “Yeah the second my in-laws stick me in an unfinished basement is the moment I know I’m not wanted. See ya!”