I have heard about mothers in law from hell but never really thought they were a thing. That was ofcourse, until I had a rather interesting conversation with my uncle who taught me that there are indeed some mother in law from hell.

You see, if a woman who is a narcissist or sociopath (in general a "Lucifer's daughter"), and she gets married, has offspring who then, in turn, get married, she will be a horrible mother in law. And alot of the time, a man's wife will have to deal with her shit mess simply because such mothers raise weak men; sons they can control.

Trust that if the man had a spine, he would have erected boundaries that his immediate family and close friends would know to respect.

And I recently came across a story that involves such a situation only things went so far left that it is now a fraud case. I was trawling the internets for a story to tell when I stumbled upon a post on Reddit in which a woman was decrying the fact that her mother in law had taken out a credit card under her son's name (the woman's husband) without their knowledge and now expected them to settle the debt.

To make matters worse, the debt in contention was accrued so that the mother in law could pay for her daughter's wedding!

Yesterday, my husband gets a letter in the mail from a collection company. It seems like it can’t be right because they say he owed about $8,000 on a credit card he’s never seen before. He called their number and the company said they would cut him a deal and he’d only have to pay $5,000. He thought it was a scam so he hung up. He then called the actual credit card company and found out the card was real and it was in his name but it hadn’t been paid for several months.

He called his mother yesterday and she denied knowing anything about it, his father said the same thing. When he said he would just have to report it as theft to the police he said his mother’s demeanor changed completely, telling him he shouldn’t go to the police and should just take the $5,000 off to pay it off.

She finally confessed to taking the credit card out in his name back in January “but only to pay for the wedding”. You see, she wanted her daughter to have her dream wedding but knew they couldn’t afford it. My MiL couldn’t afford it all either, so they took a credit card out in my husband’s name so that they could make the dream wedding happen.

And responders to her post actually had helpful advice for the lass and by extension the couple:

CPA and fraud examiner here. Whatever you do, DO NOT pay ANYTHING towards this debt! Don't listen if the credit card company wants to offer you a "deal", they are not looking out for you and don't care your information was stolen, they just want their money...

What would you do were you in this situation and have you been in a similar situation? If you have, how did you handle it?