A netizen shared how his girlfriend moved into his home to stay with him and his mother started making her do housework, among other things.
The mother then accused her of “stealing their son” and the guy then had enough and moved out the next day.
Here is the story:
“I faced similar issues as you guys as well. But instead, I am the son whose mother treats my room like storage.
It didn’t help that my then-girlfriend (now wife) was moving in to stay with me. We had wanted to stay together whilst working from home. I have never seen my own mum clean and mop the floor at 7am in the morning yet she had started demanding my wife to do so!
This carried on for 2 weeks, and of course, I helped her out. But it just got to me that my mum was using my wife to force me to do whole house chores! Normally we would split the work and I would just settle my own room, but what the heck, suddenly me and my wife need to do the whole house??
Just because my wife is “freeloading” and not paying bills? But hey! My wife did give a lot of gifts and we even forked out for family dinners every weekend! My wife had never talked back to my mum before. I warned my wife that I came from a toxic family and they will not appreciate any of these gestures.
The last straw was when my family scolded her for “stealing their son/brother”. I was fed up and we packed our bags and left home the next day for a rental flat (while I am waiting for my own resale flat).
All these happened during the covid period and I am glad we had managed through it.”
Editor’s note: You did the right thing standing up against a tyrant.