Based on the cliffhanger in the image, here is a full completion of the story:
Lately, my MIL kept insisting my son come visit her. Usually, he’d go once a year, and to be honest, he hated it. But my husband insisted, and I did not want him to drift away from his grandma. He went, crying, but when I called him, he seemed okay — said he made friends and it was not so bad. But when he came back … the look he gave me — I’ve never seen such hatred in anyone’s eyes, not even from an enemy. He did not hug me. He just yelled, “I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!”
I later found out what happened on his last day there! It turned out my MIL had spent the entire week meticulously brainwashing him. She had convinced him that the reason I sent him there wasn’t for a vacation, but because I was “tired of being a mom” and was looking into giving up custody of him. On that last day, as he was packing his bag, she sat him down and told him a complete lie: she claimed I had called her and begged her to keep him permanently because I wanted to start a “new life” without him.
She told him, “Your mother cried on the phone, not because she missed you, but because your father is forcing her to let you come back. She doesn’t want you there.”
The “friends” he made? She had bribed neighborhood kids to tell him how lucky he was that his grandma wanted him, because his own mom obviously didn’t. When he looked at me with that hatred, he wasn’t just being a brat; he was a heartbroken child who genuinely believed I viewed him as a burden.
My husband didn’t believe it until our son finally broke down in therapy and repeated the specific phrases his mother used. We have immediately gone no-contact. She wanted to steal his affection by destroying his trust in me, but all she did was ensure she will never see her grandson again.
