Funnily enough it's my mother-in-law's birthday today. The day after my own moms. She is 56 I believe. It's been a strange week and a half with my husbands family and I'm not sure if we will be having the traditional birthday dinner for her. The immediate family always gets together on someones birthday and that person gets to decide what we have for dinner that night. I'll have to ask Casey if we are still having a dinner.
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| Marilyn, my Mother-in-law |
I have no idea whether I should feel sorry for Marilyn or to still feel pissed over what she did. I mean I can understand that meeting someone online who says they love you and calls you beautiful can be special. I can see how she would feel important and validated again because a handsome military man gives you his attention and you want to meet him. What makes me so mad is how she told Vince about the whole thing. Why did she tell him over the phone while he was at work, what was the purpose of that?? He came home completely broken that day. She threw his life upside down and then left him there to deal with it. He ended up getting so wasted with Jeremy that night and crying himself to sleep. He actually told me that if she could do that to her family then how can she really love him. I had no idea how to help him or comfort him.
Then after all that to find out she was sending this guy money! I mean, why couldn't she tell he was scamming her! It was so obvious to me from his Facebook page and the story she told about him. She did finally believe us after Vince pulled up a website that showed the same scam by other people with the same exact story.
I guess everyone is just starting over again. I know Vince's parents are going to start couple's therapy and I hope they can keep their marriage together. I know I've been totally avoiding going over there, but I have no idea how to act or what to say to her. I guess we'll see what I blurt out over dinner tonight...
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