24-year-old woman gets entitled 48-year-old MIL kicked out after she "accidentally" dumps hot coffee in her luggage: 'My wife and I both knew she was lying'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 5, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

Some people will just make up stories whole cloth and expect you to believe them no matter what. You probably have at least one person like this in your life: they'll make up stories about any and everything, from where they were all day, to who they're texting, to how much money they're spending on frivolous shopping trips. Sometimes they don't even mean anything malicious by these constant lies, but they seemingly can't help but make things up for literally no reason. 

This MIL seems to be a particularly frustrating example of this. When you fall in love with someone, you don't always take their family matters into consideration before falling head over heels. You start talking, you go on a few dates, meet their friends, take a few weekend trips, and then you start meeting their family members. By that point, you're really attached to that person, so you view their parent's quirks through rose-colored glasses. Plus, you think, you'll only see them every now and then, so what does it matter if Dad is bossy or Mom is too clingy? 

Check out the story of this woman who is somehow still unsure if she's being too harsh on her MIL after the MIL spilled a lot of coffee into her suitcase. Commenters assured her she was wrong, so keep reading to see if you agree with them! 

Next, read about some construction projects that went totally wrong, like one person who noticed that "They paved over a cone on Washington Ave." 

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    "AITA for getting my MIL kicked out after she spilled coffee in my suitcase?"

    1 (24f) came home at 3am from work trip few days ago. I was jetlagged, only wanted to see my wife (25f) and go to sleep. I was surprised to see that my MIL (48f) was also waiting with my wife for my arrival at our living room. The second I walk in, my MIL starts complaining about how I was supposed to arrive at 2am, how she has been up for one hour more than she thought she would, etc.. I had sent a message to my wife that my flight was delayed, but my MIL thought that
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    I should have sent her a message aswell, even though I didn't know she would also be waiting for me. My wife calmed her mother down and I told them that I was going to sleep. That was apparently another thing for my MIL to start complaining. She thought that I needed to empty my suitcase before I go to sleep. My wife stood up for me and told her mother that I don't need to empty it right now and I can do it in the morning when I wake up. They
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    argued for a little while, but finally I got my permission to go to sleep from my MIL. At this point I need to say that I left my suitcase closed and it was out of the way, standing near a wall. Fast forward to next morning, when my wife and I woke up to a scream from my MIL. Both of us got straight up from bed and went to see what happened. My MIL stood horrified in the middle of our living room and she was looking at my suitcase, which
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    now was laying open on the floor. My wife asked what happened and my MIL responded that she had "accidentally" spilled coffee in my suitcase, because I had left it laying open on the floor. My wife and I both knew she was lying, because I did not leave the suitcase like that. I looked at my suitcase and immediatelly realised that the amount of coffee in my suitcase didn't match the size of the cup my MIL was holding, because the cup
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    was small and there were lots of coffee in the suitcase. I started crying, because everything that I had in the suitcase was ruined. My MIL started saying I was overreacting and I shouldn't have left my suitcase laying around like that. She said I was an AH because I blamed her for what happened. At this point my wife kicked her mother out and comforted me.
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    Now that few days have passed, have started thinking that maybe I overreacted and it really was my fault that my MIL spilled the coffee in the suitcase. So am I the a hole?
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    This woman still thinks she over reacted?! She can have a nice long think about it while she tries to salvage all of her clothing and the suitcase it was inside of

    I got my MIL kicked out and I might have overreacted the whole thing.
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    Commenters nearly unanimously agreed that this woman was underreacting to the bold and blatant disrespect from her MIL

    pixiecantsleep NTA. The suitcase was zipped up and closed and standing on its end. To get it to how mil had it she would have had to lay it down, unzip it, open it up and then go into the kitchen, make the coffee and then pour it in.
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    Do you hear how unhinged those steps sound? At any point she could have stopped and asked herself am I doing" she did not. You are definitely not the a h le here.
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    TheObvious13 NTA She's literally - damaged your property, I'd send her a lovely little bill saying whilst you're sure it was an accident, of course you expect her to replace the items and that you're perfectly happy with cash.
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    Swiss_El_Rosso NTA Give your wife a long hug and a kiss, she is the best for you. Let MIL dry out where ever she is, there is no need to have her with you.
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    Ok-Status-9627 Maybe I'm being slow this morning, but I fail to see how you got your MIL kicked out. From what I've read, you had an emotional reaction to the destruction of your personal property, after a stressful night travelling, probable lack of sleep (it is unclear what time you were woken) and the
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    r de awakening by a scream. Did you demand your MIL leave? Did you have a go at her/your wife? Did you fake cry? Unless you have kept something key out of the post, you didn't get your MIL kicked out, her own behaviour did that for her. NTA
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    Brainjacker weird finally I got my permission to go to sleep from my MIL. I have started thinking that maybe I overreacted and it really was my fault that my MIL spilled
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    the coffee in the suitcase. what? how??? NTA but again, something here's very weird. Do you live with MIL? Why was she there and awake at 3am? Why did your wife not give you a heads up?
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    Inanda2 NTA - why was your MIL even there? She wilfully and deliberately ruined your property because you didn't unpack when she said. HUGE red flags Your MIL needs to learn boundaries
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    Chermineyttor NTA. Your MIL apparently likes to be the center of attention at all times and just threw a tantrum cos she wasnt.
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