“I bought a house seven years ago and met my fiancé, Al, four years ago. This year, he moved in, and we’ve been working on making it a home for both of us. But right now, 95% of the stuff and furniture in the house is mine,” she explained. “When his mom comes over, she’s kind of a snoop. He’s used to it, but when she does it in our house, it’s so uncomfortable because she’s just going through my sh*t. When I call her out, she says, ‘I was just helping with chores,’ or makes excuses. Al tells me to let it go because she has ‘a lot of nervous energy,’” she wrote.
Woman catches fiancé’s mom snooping, responds with epic hidden notes
Her fiance was angry at her after seeing the notes that she had left behind for his mother to find.
Meeting your partner’s parents is a big milestone in any relationship, and it often comes with a mix of excitement and anxiety. One woman got along well with her fiancé’s mom—except for one small issue. His mother had a habit of snooping through her things, which made her deeply uncomfortable. Instead of confronting her directly, she decided to have a little fun and prank her by leaving embarrassing notes around the house. She later turned to Reddit to share the story, asking if she had taken things too far with her approach.
She let it slide for a bit but then her fiance's Mom made a comment about an affirmation note she came across. "One thing she snooped on was actually embarrassing. In my home office, I had a little affirmation post-it note on my monitor saying, 'I am smart, I am skilled, I am deserving of great things.' It was a silly thing my therapist recommended to get me in a confident mindset before an interview. Anyway, she made a comment about my ego... But as a joke, I decided to do it again," she wrote.
"I had my best friend over and we got wine drunk and wrote a bunch of 'affirmations' to hide," she wrote. She left notes all over, and they were hilarious and very tongue-in-cheek. Here are some of the notes she left.
Medicine cabinet: My teeth will regrow! I am sharklike and powerful!
Kitchen drawers: I know when to spoon, but I also know when to fork! I am sexy and self-assured!
Work desk: I will not just f*ck my way to the top of the company, I will f*ck my way to the top of the world!
Walk-in closet: I am beautiful with clothes and without! Especially without!
They wrote a bunch more and had fun leaving them around for her fiance's Mom to 'find.' "Next time my MIL came over she saw a few. And she didn't acknowledge them to me even though she definitely started acting a little weird about me," she wrote. "I went to run some errands and when I was out, she confronted Al about the notes and was trying to tell him that I seemed unstable, egotistical, and moving in was a bad idea. She showed him the notes and he didn't really know what to make of it," she recalled.
Her fiance wasn't too pleased and accused her of unnecessarily antagonizing his mother. "He asked me and I said that they were just some silly private notes to boost my self-confidence and make myself laugh; how had she gotten them? Had she been going through my things? He said she was just tidying, and saw them. And they were real weird," she recalled.
"I was like 'have you met me? You should know how weird I am. Anyway if you don't want your Mom seeing my weird sh*t you've got to stop letting her go through my sh*t.' He asked if I left them on purpose to annoy her, and I admitted that was kinda the joke, but I also have other weird or private sh*t so what I said about her needing to stop snooping if she didn't want to find weird crap was still for real," she wrote. "He said I was making stuff hard for him, his mom was really protective and adjusting to him moving in with a girlfriend for the first time, and I was agitating her on purpose and making her think I wouldn't be a good partner, when he wanted her to have the opposite impression of me!"
Reddit users overwhelmingly sided with her. "She's snooping through your home. I'd have gone further and left little notes like, "Nobody likes a snoop," and "You aren't welcome to go through my things." But yours were pretty damn funny. It's a red flag if your fiance stands up for her invading your privacy like this," one person wrote. "If you don’t set boundaries with your fiancé’s mother now, it’s going to be infinity times worse once you get married," commented another.
This article originally appeared 3 years ago.
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