My MIL Gifted Us a House for Our Wedding – A Week After Moving In, I Demanded We Return It or End Our Marriage

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Sarah hesitated, her fingers trembling against the edge of the counter. “I didn’t know how to tell you.”

“Tell me what?” I demanded. “That your mother thinks she can control every part of our lives? That you knew and didn’t warn me?”

Tears brimmed in her eyes. “I thought I could manage it. I thought if I just went along with it, things would be easier.”

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“For who? For her?” My voice softened as I stepped closer. “What about us, Sarah?”

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“I’m sorry,” she whispered, her voice so small it barely reached me. “I didn’t know what else to do.”

Her words stung because they were laced with truth. I didn’t know what to do. Sarah’s hesitance to go against her mother’s wishes had a nervous, fearful edge that concerned me deeply, but I couldn’t live like this.

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We’d only been living there for a week when I reached my breaking point. One night, as I headed to bed, I overheard Sarah on the phone with Janice.

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