Some forms of revenge take time .
This was the case with a daughter on Reddit who had a terrible relationship with her mother as a teen. So when her mother came to her, looking for a place to stay, it seemed only fitting to give her a taste of her own medicine .
The mother could stay with her, but on one condition: she had to abide by the same harsh rules she had as a teen.
The daughter shared her controversial story to the True Off My Chest community on Reddit.
Here, users can get personal things off their chest . She began by explaining that she has never had a good relationship with her biological mother .
“I went to live with dad at 16 because she told me she hated me and kicked me out,” she wrote.
“My older brother, the golden child, I know for a fact has a spare bedroom she could sleep in now that she’s losing the house.”
Given their history, she doesn’t understand why her mother would ask to live with her.
She also explained that her mother being homeless is entirely her own fault.
“She and my stepdad bought a 7-bed room house 10 years ago, right after she left her job of 20 years to work at some stupid start-up that was out of business only 3 years later.”
Her stepdad, who she called “miserable” spent the last years of his life bedbound since he was severely overweight.
When he died at 500 pounds, it drained the last bit of money that her mother had. The bank also took back the house.
This led the mother to end up on the doorstep of her daughter.
“After mistreating me since I was a kid, and ignoring me unless she wanted something since she married that thankfully dead land whale. She had the nerve to ask to live with me!”
The OP explained that she doesn’t have the room.
Her and her husband live in a two-bedroom home. The spare bedroom is his office, the basement is her art studio, and the couch in front of the fireplace is for their cats.
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“There is no room for the wicked hag anywhere in this house.”
But since she knew that this opportunity would never come again, she decided to open up her home — on one condition. “I told her she could live with us, if, and only if she decided to follow the house rules.”
The rules were pretty strict.
The first one is that all electronics were to be turned off by 6 pm. “If she was caught with any after that they would be taken away and sold at the next yard sale,” they wrote.
Bedtime was at 7:30 p.m. If the mom was caught awake, her clothing would be taken away for the week.
The harshness continued: all chores must be done the moment she wakes up. “If I roll out of bed and they are not she will not be getting meals for the day.”
As you can imagine, the mother hated these rules.
She said that they were “inhuman” and asked her daughter if she was insane, despite making her daughter live the same rules as a teen. She then stormed out of the house.
“My brother called me and told me I have ‘the biggest balls in the family’ for the stunt I pulled,” they wrote.
“From the sounds of it though, none of the spawn want the brood mother to live with them. I hope she finds a nice park bench to stay on.”
People on Reddit were absolutely living for her revenge.
“LMAO I am sorry I LAUGHED at these conditions,” they began. “I am so sorry you had to suffer through that as a teenager but that must have felt absolutely incredible and empowering to be able to shove those inhuman conditions back down her throat.”
“As a person who also was badly abused as a child: I love you,” another Redditor wrote.
“THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!! FOR LIVING OUT ALL ABUSED KIDS DREAM. AND FOR LETTING US LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH YOU. my heart is so happy I want to dance. I want to shower you will gold,” a third happily added.
Some Redditors had similar stories of revenge.
When one man and his new wife went to stay at his sister-in-law’s place for a week, she insisted that they stay in separate bedrooms. The sister was worried that they might have sex.
So when the sister and her husband came to stay with them years later, they were asked to sleep in separate bedrooms.
Were they outraged? Yup! But did it feel good to dish out revenge? You bet! Petty is the name of the game!
H/T: Reddit
