When I met my husband Derek and our twin girls Ella and Sophie, I thought I had finally found happiness. But I had no idea that Lorraine, my mother-in-law, was planning something bad to happen to me behind my back. Her evil plan would make things different and test how close our family is.
I thought I would have a happy meeting with my husband the day I brought the twins home from the hospital. Instead, Derek called me to say he couldn’t pick us up for some reason. He said that his mother was in the hospital because she was having terrible lung pains. Even though I was upset, I tried to be understanding.
What I saw when I got home with the twins, though, shocked me. Our things were all over the front yard, and the locks had been changed. I thought Derek wrote a note on the doorbell telling me to leave and take the “little moochers” with me. It broke my heart.
I found out that Lorraine was behind everything as I tried to make sense of what was going on. She used Derek against him, lied about being sick, and planned the whole thing to get me and the kids to leave. Why did she do it? She didn’t want granddaughters, she wanted boys.
I was sickened by how mean she was, but I knew I had to do something. I took the car to the hospital and found Derek there. He didn’t know what was going on at home. We talked to Lorraine together, but she didn’t feel bad about what she did.
At that time, Derek stood up to his mom and protected me and our girls. She was told to leave and never come back. Our relationship changed, and I was proud of him for standing up for what he believed in.
As we started over with our lives, I understood that Lorraine’s actions, even though they were bad, had brought us closer together in the end. Our love grew stronger as we learned to value each other and our girls.
