{"id":83935,"date":"2024-10-07T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=83935"},"modified":"2024-10-07T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:07:37","slug":"my-sister-in-law-never-pays-her-share-so-i-gave-her-a-taste-of-her-own-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/my-sister-in-law-never-pays-her-share-so-i-gave-her-a-taste-of-her-own-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sister-in-Law Never Pays Her Share, So I Gave Her a Taste of Her Own Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really need your advice on how to deal with a tricky family member. I have a sister-in-law who’s driving me up the wall, and I’m wondering if I handled the situation the right way or if I went too far.\n

So, here\u2019s the story. My 28-year-old sister-in-law lives in another city and often visits us. She always stays at our place instead of booking a hotel, and whenever she\u2019s here, she insists on going to fancy restaurants. But there\u2019s a catch \u2013 she always \u201cforgets\u201d her wallet or makes up some excuse not to pay. She even hints that since I make more money than her, it should be my job to cover her expenses \u2013 not my husband\u2019s, but mine. And yes, I do earn a decent income, but I can\u2019t keep paying for her every single time.\n

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In the past, I\u2019ve just paid the bill and asked her to pay me back, but she never did. Last night, she booked a super expensive restaurant again, and I decided I\u2019d had enough. Here\u2019s where it gets interesting \u2014 I pulled a trick I once saw on an episode of my favorite TV show.\n
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Before we left, I made it clear that I wouldn\u2019t be covering her bill this time. As we headed out, I pretended I had forgotten something inside, went back to the room, and found her wallet lying right on top of her suitcase. I put it in my purse without saying anything. When we finished eating, she tried the usual, saying we needed one bill because she\u2019d \u201cforgotten\u201d her wallet. That\u2019s when I pulled it out of my purse and asked, \u201cYou mean this wallet?\u201d\n
She was furious, saying I crossed a line by taking her wallet without asking. And to make matters worse, she saw that I wrote this story for you and is now even angrier, claiming I made her look bad.\n
Source: Brightside\n
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I really need your advice on how to deal with a tricky family member. I have a sister-in-law who’s driving me up the wall, and I’m wondering if I handled the situation the right way or if I went too far. So, here\u2019s the story. My 28-year-old sister-in-law lives in another city and often visits …\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":83936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83937,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83935\/revisions\/83937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

For illustrative purposes only\n
\n
In the past, I\u2019ve just paid the bill and asked her to pay me back, but she never did. Last night, she booked a super expensive restaurant again, and I decided I\u2019d had enough. Here\u2019s where it gets interesting \u2014 I pulled a trick I once saw on an episode of my favorite TV show.\n
$\"\"$
For illustrative purposes only\n
Before we left, I made it clear that I wouldn\u2019t be covering her bill this time. As we headed out, I pretended I had forgotten something inside, went back to the room, and found her wallet lying right on top of her suitcase. I put it in my purse without saying anything. When we finished eating, she tried the usual, saying we needed one bill because she\u2019d \u201cforgotten\u201d her wallet. That\u2019s when I pulled it out of my purse and asked, \u201cYou mean this wallet?\u201d\n
She was furious, saying I crossed a line by taking her wallet without asking. And to make matters worse, she saw that I wrote this story for you and is now even angrier, claiming I made her look bad.\n
Source: Brightside\n
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I really need your advice on how to deal with a tricky family member. I have a sister-in-law who’s driving me up the wall, and I’m wondering if I handled the situation the right way or if I went too far. So, here\u2019s the story. My 28-year-old sister-in-law lives in another city and often visits …\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":83936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83937,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83935\/revisions\/83937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}