So why did she do it?

[BlueBells]

Re: So why did she do it?

@Arzi

No one can tell you why she did it. We can all sit here and speculate from your side of the story - but since you’ve decided not to bring the issue up with your MIL, I don’t see the logic. You found your rings, and yes it was not nice of your MIL to ‘hide’ them and good job that you didn’t create unnecessary drama. As I understood it, she’s going to leave soon right? So smile and nod along.

Arzi, She left already. But this isn’t about the duration of her stay or whether she’s living with me (she has 6 other kids who live in different states so she tries to switch between them but has to live with certain kids more because she’s helping out with handling grandkids). She brought up certain insecurities that she doesn’t have a place of her own anymore because her husband is no longer alive. I reassured her that our place is her place and that she’s welcome to stay for as long as she can. Besides, I have a single mom who is in a very similar situation, I know exactly what she is going through and its not easy.

You’re right though , you can’t find the answers for everything sometimes. But it just doesn’t make sense to ruin a perfectly good relationship-that too, quite possibly one of the toughest and most complicated relationships to work out- for no reason whatsoever.