Toxic parents defend a thieving son-in-law, but his brother-in-law refuses to let him return to his house after catching him "borrowing" money without permission: ‘He stole from me’

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 19, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Stealing from a family member is a low blow, so when this man caught his brother-in-law with his hands literally in his piggy bank, he was not only angry, he was betrayed. Despite breaking the circle of trust with his closest confidante, the brother-in-law doubled down and had the audacity to start blaming the homeowner for "spying on him." 

As it turns out, he had good reason to be spying in his own home, because he couldn't trust a brother-in-law with sticky fingers and a pride complex. 

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  • AITA for banning my brother-in-law from my house after he stole from me?
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  • My brother-in-law has a history of borrowing things and "forgetting" to return them. Last week I caught him taking cash
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  • from a drawer while he thought I was out. When I confronted him, he said he was "just borrowing it" and got angry at me for "spying" on him.
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  • I told my sister he's no longer welcome in my home. She says I'm "ruining her marriage" and that he only "took it
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  • because he was desperate." My parents want me to "be forgiving." AITA for standing firm?
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  • Thieves have a way of backpedalling when they get caught red-handed. Ashamed at their ineffective stealth, they save face by being indignant instead. As shameful as it is, the entire family backed the wrong guy in this next story, defending the thief and berating the man he stole from. As if the guy who got robbed was in the wrong for banishing the guy who stole from him… 

  • bippityboppity... NTA. Tell them they are welcome to allow thieves in their home but you will not. Let them know they should be thanking you for not calling the police.
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  • DetroitSmash-... NTA. He's welcome to steal from them and see if they're as forgiving as they expect you to be. If
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  • your sister's marriage is ruined because you won't let her husband inside your house to steal from you, then it deserves to be ruined.
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  • GoddessfromCypr... NTA, you are not responsible for your sister's marriage. If banning him us all it takes, there's something wrong with their marriage anyway.
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  • The cheek of him though, you catch him stealing and he accuses you of spying, in your own home. Tell you family he's lucky you didn't call the police.
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  • GlassChampionshi... Hmmm, I wonder how much he has "borrowed" from other relatives?
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  • Its not borrowing if you haven't asked before hand, its stealing, and he was caught red handed. No, I wouldn't let him back in my house, sad, sad sad
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  • Glittering-Sugar-07 NTA. Your brother-in-law is a thief.
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  • Your sister is out of line for even marrying a thief, let alone defending him.
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  • And as for your parents, if they want you to be forgiving to a thief as toxic as your BIL, let them be mugged by him, let him
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  • mugged by him, let him steal from them and then when they come complaining that they want to ban the BIL from entering their house, tell them they should be "more forgiving" to BIL.
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