Mom secretly charges 31-year-old daughter-in-law rent money, DIL finds out her husband knew all along: “Imagine finding out you’re the tenant in your own marriage”

When you find out you were lied to by people who you put your trust in the most, it's as if the world around you completely falls apart. Like a dilapidated building on the brink of collapse, your world and everything you thought you knew suddenly feels so fragile and without stability. The rug has been pulled out from under you, and your feet can't even touch the ground. You're in a non-consensual freefall, bereft of wings or ground to keep you from the pain of your fall.

There's no reason to lie to your partner, your lover, your spouse, and if you do, it only perpetuates more lies, more trust issues, to the point where neither of you can go on together. When one person lies, they don't only affect the person they're lying to, it often stimulates their paranoia and sense of trust in the other. Take cheating for example. Isn't it always the cheater who accuses their partner of cheating on them? Their own lack of integrity seeps into the relationship whether the other person knows it, and it can create trust issues, even though they're the ones who started it.

In the story below, the protagonist is a woman whose husband has been lying to her about their living situation. She thinks she's paying rent to a landlord, meanwhile she's just paying rent to her mother-in-law.

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AITAH for finding out I’ve been unknowingly paying rent to my husband and his mom for TWO YEARS?

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It's obviously uncouth to be lying to your wife, as well as charging her rent, but I'm a little confused about how it got to this point. When they signed the lease, she didn't ask to see it? She didn't ask to meet the landlord? How did she end up in a situation where she didn't even know who the landlord was?
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