A bride-to-be recently hit her breaking point with her soon-to-be mother-in-law just weeks before her wedding.
In a Reddit post, she shared that her fiancé’s mother has “always been controlling,” but a recent incident pushed her over the edge.
“I had my wedding dress hanging at our house (I’m getting married in 3 weeks). I came home yesterday to find it GONE,” she writes.
It was later revealed that her mother-in-law got rid of the gown because she believed it was “too revealing.”
“She said she ‘donated it’ because it was ‘disrespectful to her son’ and she ‘couldn’t let him be humiliated.’ I lost it,” the bride recalls.
Her 29-year-old fiancé is also “furious” and has stopped speaking to his mother. Yet, the mother-in-law doesn’t seem to grasp the seriousness of her actions.
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“We’re scrambling to figure out what to do. MIL is texting nonstop saying we’re ‘overreacting,'” the bride adds. “I feel like I’m living in a nightmare.”
People in the comments encouraged the couple to involve law enforcement, noting that the “cost of a wedding dress might just put this theft into felony territory.”
“Call the police and file a report naming her as having confessed to the crime,” one user suggested. “Depending on the price of the dress, it may be a serious charge because theft escalates with higher charges after I think $500.”
Another commenter advised, “Your fiancé should tell his mom that if she doesn’t get the dress back he’ll never talk to her again and she will never see her future grandchildren. Either that or she gives you cash for it. After that, you should go no contact with her indefinitely. And she absolutely CANNOT come to your wedding.”
