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Mom Refuses To Help MIL Who Abandoned Them When They Were Homeless, Laughs In Her Face
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Mom Refuses To Help MIL Who Abandoned Them When They Were Homeless, Laughs In Her Face

Mom Refuses To Help MIL Who Abandoned Them When They Were Homeless, Laughs In Her FaceWoman Abandons Family As Soon As They Become Homeless, DIL Laughs In Her Face When The Tables Turn“We Were Looked At Like We Were Scum”: Woman Laughs In MIL’s Face When She Asks For Help Because Of The Way She Treated Her Family When They Were At Their LowestMother-In-Law Refuses To Help Her Family When Times Are Tough, Gets Laughed At When She Needs Help LaterMIL Refuses To Let Homeless Son's Family Live With Her When She Has 2 Rooms Available, Is In Tears When The Tables Turn And Now They Won't Take Her InMIL Has The Audacity To Ask To Stay With Family After Letting Them Go Homeless With 3 Kids A Few Years AgoWoman Laughs In MIL's Face When She Asks To Stay With Them After Letting The Family Be Homeless When They Needed Help In The PastMIL Expects Son's Family To Take Her In When She's Homeless, They Refuse Because She Did The Same To ThemMIL Refused To Let Her Son And His Family Stay With Her When They Became Homeless, They Laugh In Her Face When She Asks To Live With Them For The Same Reason“Am I A Jerk For Laughing In My MIL’s Face?”: Woman Punishes Struggling MIL For Turning Her Back On Them When They Lost Everything
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Even if you don’t believe in fate and karma, you can’t deny that the universe sometimes has an odd way of giving people exactly what they deserve. Try asking for help after you’ve denied it to someone else in the past. Oh, how the tables have turned!

Redditor u/Evening-Still2174 shared the ups and downs her family went through over the past few years. She explained to the AITA community how she, her husband, and her three kids became homeless in 2020. The woman’s mother-in-law refused to lend them a helping hand despite her earlier promises—something that really came to haunt her later on. Scroll down for the full story.

Bored Panda has reached out to u/Evening-Still2174 via Reddit, and we’ll update the article as soon as we hear back from her.

A woman shared how her mother-in-law abandoned her relatives when they needed her help the most

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Things started going downhill at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020

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The woman, her husband, and their kids were forced out of their home. Their relatives were far from charitable

Image credits: Pressmaster (not the actual photo)

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However, things soon changed drastically

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The mother-in-law quickly realized that she got a taste of her own medicine

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The author of the post, u/Evening-Still2174, proved that everything is possible, as long as you set your mind to it. Despite the fact that she and her family had to live out of a van and then a homeless shelter, they managed to bounce back in a spectacular fashion.

Not only did they build their own house from scratch (something yours truly dreams of doing someday), but they also created their own business. Now, they’re financially stable and incredibly happy. What more could you want?

Now, in 2023, the script has fully flipped. While the OP and her family are enjoying their hard-earned success, her mother-in-law is having a very hard time surviving. She’s suffered financially, she’s lost her retirement, and she might get evicted. In short, times are very tough for her.

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Fearing losing her home, she turned to her son and daughter-in-law for assistance. However, the OP laughed in her MIL’s face. “I will admit that my first reaction was to outright laugh at her and her audacity. She looked immediately offended and uncomfortable, especially after I stated there wasn’t a chance of that happening,” she writes.

The woman still wasn’t sure if how she reacted to her mother-in-law’s request was right, so she turned to the internet for advice

However, some of the woman’s friends thought that she might have approached things wrong. This is what prompted her to share the post on the AITA subreddit in the first place. Most readers were on the woman’s side. They pointed out that she did nothing wrong by rejecting her mother-in-law, after how she treated them. They noted that it was a mean reaction, but something that was merited.

It’s one thing to refuse to help your family who became homeless; it’s far worse to promise them help and then go back on your word. This type of behavior meant the MIL was in no position to get help when she was the one who needed it. Unfortunately, just because someone is related to you by blood doesn’t automatically make them a good person. Not everyone’s a good parent or grandparent. Not everyone is willing to make (even minor) sacrifices for their family.

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Child homelessness is a far bigger problem than many people realize

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According to the Eviction Lab, which tracks the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in 9 states and 32 cities, landlords have filed for nearly 1.8 million evictions from the middle of March 2020 till January 7, 2023. The most evictions were filed in Pennsylvania (206k), Virginia (180.7k), and Indiana (150k). There’s been a general uptick in the number of evictions after the moratoriums at the start of the pandemic were lifted.

Campaign for Children notes that, according to a 2021 study by the Childcare Services Association, 1 in 18 kids under the age of 6 experience homelessness every year in the United States. That’s 1.3 million infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

Meanwhile, SAMHSA notes that child homelessness is often under-estimated. Based on the findings of a report done in 2013, the “typical family experiencing homelessness” in the US “consists of an African-American mother under the age of 27 with two small children; 51% of children who experience homelessness are under the age of six.”

Most readers were on the woman’s side. Here’s what they thought about the family drama

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Jonas Grinevičius

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Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

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Jonas Grinevičius

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Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

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Gabija Palšytė

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Gabija is a photo editor at Bored Panda. Before joining the team, she achieved a Professional Bachelor degree in Photography and has been working as a freelance photographer since. She also has a special place in her heart for film photography, movies and nature.

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Cassie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is it that someone with equal responsibility (SIL) has the gall to be angry that anybody else shirked it when she didn't bother taking it on, either?

Sandra Gleeson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why didn't the MIL move in with the SIL as she had a house from her father?? This story sounds a bit suss to me

Tina Hugh
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got suspicious when they said she had two extra rooms. Who has two extra rooms? And then the family built a house they now live in? Sounds like a fairy tale

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Dre Mosley
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They built their own house? I don't know, man. I know this happens, one of my friends did it, but he's a licensed contractor/builder, so out of the gate he knew what he was doing. That's a huge undertaking for someone with no experience and really risky and costly if you botch it. Props to them if they actually pulled that off. Anyway, the judgemental SIL who had her house handed to her, should have taken mom in.

NotTodaySatan!!
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We don't know if they did or didn't have experience. The cost of building materials blew up and everyone with building projects stalled, or many did. Maybe husband is a contractor by trade and was laid off when everything stopped in that arena.

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Cassie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is it that someone with equal responsibility (SIL) has the gall to be angry that anybody else shirked it when she didn't bother taking it on, either?

Sandra Gleeson
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why didn't the MIL move in with the SIL as she had a house from her father?? This story sounds a bit suss to me

Tina Hugh
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got suspicious when they said she had two extra rooms. Who has two extra rooms? And then the family built a house they now live in? Sounds like a fairy tale

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Dre Mosley
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They built their own house? I don't know, man. I know this happens, one of my friends did it, but he's a licensed contractor/builder, so out of the gate he knew what he was doing. That's a huge undertaking for someone with no experience and really risky and costly if you botch it. Props to them if they actually pulled that off. Anyway, the judgemental SIL who had her house handed to her, should have taken mom in.

NotTodaySatan!!
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We don't know if they did or didn't have experience. The cost of building materials blew up and everyone with building projects stalled, or many did. Maybe husband is a contractor by trade and was laid off when everything stopped in that arena.

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