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“There are two things my ex-husband’s family did that were very strange to me right off the bat. First, during our wedding reception, my in-laws’ entire family went to my condo, which my new husband was moving into with me, and trashed it with supposedly ‘funny prank things.’ They covered all toilet seats, handles, and faucets with Vaseline. They filled our entire bedroom with wadded-up old newspaper, covering the floor, bed, and furniture. They opened and emptied all dry goods in the kitchen, all over the floor, removed all light bulbs, etc., etc., etc.”
“I burst into tears when we went to the condo after the wedding to pick up our suitcases for our honeymoon. They had left messages on all the mirrors in my lipstick about how funny the pranks were and how much fun I would have cleaning it up after our trip. I don’t get how this was funny.
Then, when we visited them on our first Christmas as a married couple in their home, we opened gifts, and we were given sets of sheets from all his relatives. Nothing but sheets for the bed. All sheets were strange patterns, like for kids, with Disney prints and pictures of pigs. We had no kids. When I looked confused at my mother-in-law, she said, ‘I asked you once if you needed anything for your condo, and you said sheets, so I told everyone that is all you wanted for Christmas.’
I never remember having any conversation like that. Everyone else got beautiful jewelry and new phones, and we gave everyone expensive, thoughtful gifts. I took home five sets of kids’ sheets.
I did not see my ex-husband’s family often due to living several thousand miles apart, but every time I did, they made sure to pull some similar strange stuff.
My ex has had four wives now, and they all apparently complained to him about his family and their passive-aggressive attitude toward his wives.”
—Anonymous
