My husband(24) and I(23) moved in with my mother in law during covid. We were having our second child and things were tough. My mother was going through hard times as well so she had asked if we wanted to get a house together since both our and her lease was about to end. We agreed. Him and I were both a little skeptical because we had lived with her before and when our now 4 year old was 3 months old. She kicked us out and said we need to leave our baby with her since we had no place to go. We left and took our baby and she threatened cps saying we are endangering our daughter because it was December so it was snowing and we had “no place to go” (we ended up driving to my friends house right away). We didn’t talk to my mother for a long time. She wouldn’t let us back in the house to get out stuff so we had to get new everything. So now years later we are in the same boat. I assured my husband that wouldn’t happen again because we are getting a house together it’s not like we are moving into her house. But I was wrong, my mother hasn’t changed.
We move in towards the end of July 2020. Things start off pretty well until we are spending $1000 on food a month to feed our little family and my mother and 3 siblings. We kindly talked to her about it and she blew up separated everything in the kitchen and threatened to kick us out. Since then it’s been walking on egg shells. She’s extremely different to talk to, any bump in the road we come along while all living together is a huge deal to her, she starts yelling and calling the cops every moment she gets. Everyone has told us “just ignore it, you know her. She’s always been this way.” So now that I am older I realize that it’s not okay to treat me and my husband like that.
She finally had enough of us and put out eviction papers. She only put my husbands name on it. Who by the way grew up in foster care and has no family to fall back on. Me and my kids are his family. So she tells me she’s just evicting him and not me and the girls. Probably to make herself feel better but obviously I am going with my husband. She gave 12 days on the eviction papers. So we are now struggling to find an apartment. We don’t have the best credit so we would need to probably pay a bigger deposit. Here In Denver living costs are so expensive. The cheapest 2 bedrooms I found in our area is 1300 but there’s only one or two places and none available for move in in July. I’ve found some 1400 and 1500 but I can’t go higher than that. We don’t have a lot of money to our name right now. Our car is always breaking down and we have spent a lot on that recently.
We have enough money to move out and rent a uhaul. But our daughters birthdays are July 11th and July 21st. They are turning 1 and 4. My husbands is in july as well, the 23rd. I feel so bad that all of this is happening and our daughters won’t be able to have a birthday the right way. I would just like to be able to get them a few things. Mostly our daughters. They are always the priority. But I would love to get my husband something as well. He’s worked so hard taking care of us and protecting us. We have no family now. My mother has made sure of that.
Anything helps.. Thank you!