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

He did what he always did when he felt exposed.

“You said you’re selling the house. Explain the context where that’s not exactly what it sounds like.”

Mark exhaled slowly, as if I were the unreasonable one. “We were talking about options. Mom is under a lot of stress. I was just trying to calm her down.”

“By selling our house?”

Helen threw her hands up. “I knew this would happen. You can’t say anything in front of her without drama.”

Drama.

“Mom is under a lot of stress.”

“This is my home,” I said. “And my children’s.”