Kicked-out Mother Moves To Late Granny’s House, Checks Mailbox & Realizes She’s Rich
He was no longer an owner of the business. After that, he was out on the street!
This was a huge blow to both his sense of self-worth and his family’s life. Janet was in a lot of pain.
What would they eat? How would they live?
How would they pay for their three kids to keep going to school? But the worst was yet to come: a loan shark started calling the family’s house to collect on the loans the man had taken out.
When Janet went to the grocery store to buy the rest of the month’s food, she found that the family’s credit cards had been blocked. When she called the bank, the manager told her that her husband had spent the couple’s money.
He had also taken out loans from the bank over the past few months, and the shortfall was so big that a bailiff would soon be at the family’s door if the debt weren’t paid. In other words, what the family owed the bank was close to the value of the house they lived in, so the bank would sell the house to pay off the debt.
When Janet heard that, she felt stunned, as if the world had stopped around her. She couldn’t figure out how her husband could be so careless and self-centered while secretly racking up debts.
From the Depths of Despair to a Mother’s Secret
When she found her husband later, she went from being tired and bored to being furious and out of control.
“Do you realize how bad what you’ve done is? Mathew, your hobby cost our family a lot of money. We’ll be kicked out of our house with three kids to feed, and it’s all because of a stupid game!”
She was so nervous that she fought with her husband while on medicine to calm her down. Matthew insisted he was simply experiencing a lot of bad luck, but that was about to change.
Janet could not believe her ears.
“What? Are you thinking about playing again? IT IS OVER! Do you understand that if you don’t promise me that right away, I’ll take the kids and leave?”
Matthew bowed his head in recognition that Janet was being serious. He remained silent for a while before promising to change, but he begged his wife to stand by him and not leave.
She wanted to sell it before it was auctioned. That way, she would get a better value on it, making it possible to fully settle the debt with the bank, but only part of what her husband owed the loan shark, who was calling members of the family every day.
“Where are we going to live now?” she wondered as she looked around the rooms and thought about the children.
Janet took a deep breath and explained what had happened to her mother. She was mortified and wanted to disappear from the face of the Earth.
She never imagined it would get this low. She asked to access family money to pay the loan shark.
The elderly woman looked coldly at her daughter and asked:
“Are you sure about this, my daughter? If I give you that money, I will have nothing left for your future and that of my grandchildren, apart from our old house in the countryside, with that mailbox that you loved, remember?”
Janet always wanted to be the first one to open it and bring the mail running home when she was a kid. Her mother would sometimes put candy in the box just so Janet could discover a surprise inside.
But now was not the time to reflect on the past; Janet needed to think about her family’s future, so she confirmed her intention to use family funds to assist her husband. After all, he was a member of her family as well.
Phyllis was upset, so she thought about her three grandchildren before agreeing to give away all of the money she had saved over her life. Matthew would have been in trouble with the loan shark, and his grandchildren would have been homeless if it hadn’t been for her.
Phyllis’ final act of kindness before passing away was the transfer. She fell ill unexpectedly forty days later and had to be taken to the hospital right away.
Janet was devastated by her death in the ICU. After the funeral, she sobbed for many hours.
Even her children couldn’t make her feel better. Janet received a letter from her mother, via the family attorney, a week later.
He clarified that the letter contained the remainder of her mother’s belongings. Janet wasn’t sure what this meant.
When Janet opened the envelope, she discovered a handwritten note on a plain piece of paper. Her mother wished her the best and told her that she could always seek refuge in the rural home where she had grown up.
“May you only receive letters of happiness,” she finished the text.
The key to the place was in the envelope. Matthew stopped playing.
He lost friends and most of his family viewed him with some contempt. He, Janet, and the three children had to leave the beautiful house they owned to live on rent in a tiny apartment.
Without their previous income, the three children had to drop out of private school, but no public school could accept them in the middle of the school year. So the kids would stay all day in the apartment, bored and picking fights with each other.
From that moment on, Janet would look at her husband more harshly. He needed to be better for his family and find a way to regain his dignity, but the truth was that Matthew was depressed after all he had done, and this moved him to rediscover an old best friend: whiskey.
He still got up early every day and went to the street to look for work or odd jobs. His ex-partner was a good man who understood that everyone makes mistakes.
He told Matthew that if he could show that he had changed for the better, he could work for the company again, not as a partner, but as a senior employee. Matthew knew that business better than anyone else.
This gave Janet hope, but the first thing Matthew did when he got home was to look for a bottle. On days when nothing was going on, he would get drunk and fall asleep on the couch.
But he was quickly getting lost. When his ex-partner planned a birthday party for his son, who was the same age as Nate, Janet saw this as an opportunity for her husband to show that he was ready.
While the kids played in the garden, the adults were having lively conversations. Matthew’s former employees at the company and the situation was a little embarrassing for him.
Matthew drank more than he should have. The more drunk he got, the more unpleasant he was with the other children’s parents and with his own wife.
When all around could see that he was already past his limit, Janet tried to convince him to withdraw before he ruined his last chance with his ex-partner.
“Honey, let’s go home. You need a shower and a good night’s sleep. Come on, I’ll help you,”
But he told Janet to shut up and said he wouldn’t do what she wanted, which got everyone’s attention.
“But he told Janet to shut up and said he wasn’t going to do what she wanted, drawing everyone’s attention.”
