We assume that our family members would be there for us and earn our confidence, but Dorothy’s experience was painful. Dorothy and her husband invited her husband’s 20-year-old sister to their house and requested her to babysit their two children. Unfortunately, everything went wrong, and the sister-in-law violated their confidence in the worst way conceivable.
This is Dorothy’s letter:
We invited my husband’s sister, 20, to move in for free. (She had just started work and lives far away). All we asked was that she babysit our 2-year-old twin boys on weekend nights while we went out.
She said, “I have a life too! If I’m going to sacrifice my time, I need cash!” I refused, and she had no other choice but to accept and things had been going smoothly for months.
We returned one Sunday night to find her weeping and the apartment completely chaotic. She stated that after putting the kids to bed, she went to sleep herself. She came down for a glass of water and saw that the home had been vandalized.
This seems unusual to us. Fortunately, we did not keep anything valuable at home. We barely had $400 in our room, and it was all gone.
My spouse and I later examined our entry camera before phoning the cops. We were horrified to find that she had lied to us. Her partner arrived shortly after we departed and stayed for many hours. He then departed only a few minutes before we returned. She appeared calm and pleased, and kissed him in front of the main entrance.
This was confirmation that no one had broken in; it had always been just her and her partner. They planned to rob us just because we refused to pay her. My husband refuses to notify the cops since it’s his sister, but I don’t want her in my house or around my children ever again. We opened our door to her, and she betrayed us. I don’t get it-did we do something wrong here?
