In order for you to understand this, I have to explain alot, so this is going to be long.

Ten years ago, my husband and I were in a very financial bind. This was when I was still working before I became disabled. My husband is a construction worker, so during the winter months, he was off alot.

My husband was off for several months and we had used up all of our savings to pay the mortgage and the bills. My paycheck paid for groceries as I was only making minimum wage and we had two teenage sons at the time.

My mother-in-law is very wealthy. I'm not talking a couple hundred thousand, I'm talking close to a million.

We were going to lose the house as we just couldn't come up with the mortgage payments anymore. My mother-in-law offered to pay our bills until my husband got back to work. We didn't ask, she offered. We were very grateful.

Instead of giving us a lump sum to get by with, I had to send her the total each month of the bills and she would send us a check for that amount and I would pay the bills.

There was no mention of paying her back and she knew we were struggling.

Well, a few months ago, she asked for the money back. We were shocked to say the least. We told her that we didn't have the money.

Apparently, she told my husband's sister and so a few days ago, we received a letter from his sister, telling us that we needed to come up with the money to pay their mom back so she could invest it and get interest from it.

I had no idea that his mother had kept track of every penny she gave us as I didn't. Well, she did and his sister said we needed to come up with $7, 280.00, even if we had to borrow against our house.

So, I went to the bank yesterday and applied for a loan against our house. The lady said it would not be a problem and we would have the money in a couple of weeks. I will have to use my social security check to pay this back. I had been using my check to pay for my prescriptions. I don't know what I will do now.

His mother knows all my health problems but has never called to ask how I am doing or has never visited me in the hospital when I was hospitalized several times. Once, I was in a coma and on life support for three and a half weeks and she never visited me. The doctors told my husband that I wasn't going to make it but I pulled through. She only lives an hour away from the hospital, but never showed.

My husband told me that after this is over with and she is paid, he wants no more to do with her. I have to admit, I feel the same way. Am I wrong for feeling hurt? I also feel upset and mad over this. Why would she do this to us?

I would welcome any comments on this as I don't know if I'm wrong for feeling this way. I need others perspectives on this.

Thank you,
Linda