She told me that my mother-in-law hadn’t just manipulated her with lies about David.
She told me that my mother-in-law had found out about her medical diagnosis two years before the baby was born.
I stared at her, the pieces of the puzzle shifting violently in my mind.
My mother explained that she had been experiencing memory lapses and confusion long before the pregnancy.
She had gone to a specialist and received the devastating diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s.
She had kept it a secret from everyone, even me, out of a desperate, misguided sense of protection.
But my mother-in-law, in her obsessive, paranoid state, had found the medical records.
She had discovered that my mother was hiding a degenerative, hereditary brain disease.
My mother-in-law had used this information to completely break my mother’s spirit.
She had told my mother that if she ever caused any trouble, she would expose the genetic defect.
She had threatened to use the diagnosis to claim that I was unfit to be a mother, that I would eventually lose my mind and endanger the baby.
My mother said she lived in absolute terror of my mother-in-law for years.
Part 1: My Husband Stopped His Mother, Then Asked My Mother One Question…
