Backstabber...

I just learned tonight that my MIL is trying to get in contact with someone who owes my husband $10,000... and she doesn't want me to know about it.

She asked me roughly two weeks ago for my ex-landlord's phone number, but didn't tell me why.

Tonight, my BFF told me that my MIL came over last night and asked for my ex-landlord's number again, because he's not returning her phone calls.

Then MIL told BFF that before my husband was arrested for molesting my kids, he'd loaned a friend $10K... and that this friend had indicated that he was ready to pay it back. Somehow, Ex-landlord seems to be the go-between, but he's not easy to reach.

MIL confided that she and my husband really need that money. I don't know if she thought that might make my BFF more likely to help or not. Apparently she never considered our relationship, because she was taken aback when BFF said, "Jo really needs money, too, you know. She's almost out of the money she had in savings."

MIL just seemed to brush that off, repeating, "(Son) and I really need that money, so we need to get in touch with (Ex-landlord) as soon as possible."

I just gave this woman a lovely coral necklace, for which I carefully picked out just the right beads and painstakingly strung as securely as I could, which I knew she’d love, for Mother’s Day. She’s been wearing it almost every time I’ve seen her since I gave it to her. And this is how she repays me.

She (and her son) have always insisted that NOTHING comes before family, that you protect and defend family above all else.

Yet she doesn't care that I have no income, that her son has never supported me since going to prison, that my sons are her grandchildren. She doesn't care that I dedicated my life to taking care of her son, forsaking my own wishes for his, until the day I learned that he was sexually abusing my son (and my daughter, as I learned later). She doesn't care that I have always called her Mom, that I've honored her just as I did my own, that I considered her as close a family member as if she were my own flesh and blood.

She just wants money... and she stabbed me in the back in an attempt to get it.

I will never trust her again. I can’t. I’ve been married to her son for nearly 12 years now, and she still doesn’t think of me as family.