I Overheard My Husband Plotting with His Mother to Sell Our House to Pay Off Her Loan – I Had to Teach Them a Lesson

I answered honestly, but gently.

“No, sweetheart. We’re staying.”

“No, you didn’t do anything wrong.”

“Yes, Dad loves you.

But loving someone doesn’t mean you get to scare them.”

She nodded like she was filing it away for later.

Leo didn’t ask much. He just slept better.

A week later, Jenna called. “It’s official.

The listing is void. Completely. The realtor documented everything.”

I sat down on the edge of the bed.

“And the forged signature?”

I closed my eyes.

“He thought it was temporary,” she continued. “That he could fix it later.”

“Did you explain,” I asked quietly, “that people don’t get to ‘temporarily’ erase someone else?”

Jenna exhaled. “I did.”

Life didn’t suddenly become easy.

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