‘Pack your things and leave,’ he ordered.
She looked at him with tears in her eyes.
‘You can’t be serious. I’m your mother!’
‘And Jenna is my wife. And they are my daughters. If you can’t respect them, you have no place in our lives.’
For the first time, Lorraine had no response. She went upstairs to pack her things, slamming the doors behind her. Derek turned to me, his eyes full of remorse.
‘I’m sorry, my love. I didn’t know.’
I took a deep breath, still trembling, feeling the tension slowly ease.
‘I just want us to move on.’
Lorraine left that same evening. Derek apologised a thousand times and kept his word: he changed the locks, blocked his mother’s number and even reported the nurse who had accepted the bribe.
It wasn’t easy. For months, we rebuilt our lives. And one evening, as I was rocking Ella and Sophie to sleep, I realised something: Lorraine had tried to destroy us… but she had achieved the opposite. She had made us stronger and more united.
Unfortunately, Jenna is not the only daughter-in-law who has had to deal with an unbearable mother-in-law. In the next story, Michelle’s mother-in-law catches her son and his wife with a DNA test for their child, confident that she will finally be able to separate them. But things did not go at all as she had imagined.