My Snooping MIL Thought She Was Exposing Me – but She Walked Right into the Trap I Set in My Closet

When my mother-in-law, Jennifer, moved in, I tried to stay positive—despite her reputation for being controlling and nosy. At first, things seemed fine. But I soon noticed my belongings were being moved. My perfume was off-center. My sweaters were folded wrong. I knew someone was snooping—and I was sure it was her. Mark, my husband, didn’t believe me. He thought I was imagining things. So I set a trap,

I wrote a fake journal entry saying I felt unloved and was thinking of leaving Mark. Then I hid it deep in the closet—somewhere no one would find it unless they were looking. Three days later, during a family dinner, Jennifer exploded. “She’s hiding something from you, Mark,”