My mother-in-law extorted my wife for years by using my wife's younger siblings against her

to guilt trip her into doing whatever she said. Here's what happened. So my mother-in-law

has seven children. My wife is a second oldest and along with her older brother are children

from a previous relationship. Their stepdad is to put it lightly, a very terrible human being.

Nevertheless, he's the father of their five youngest half-siblings and he is also a decently

wealthy landowner in their small town on the Mexican side of the US Mexican border,

so there's nothing that they can really do about him. Now, I could write an essay on why this

man is so terrible, but I will stick to the main one. This terrible no good poor excuse for a

stepfather would constantly harass and hurt my wife in really inappropriate ways ever since they

met when she was four or five years old. Eventually, he took things way too far when she was about

10 years old, and when her mom found out five to six years later, the lady's bride idea was

to simply send her daughter away to live with her grandma in the United States. As a side note,

my wife and her brother are Mexican, but they were born in the US. It was while she was living with

said grandma that my wife eventually met me at our high school prom, and after about a year,

we became a couple. Unfortunately, the grandma is a special kind of social conservative,

the hypocritical, manipulative, and controlling kind, but not in a political way.

Once the grandma found out, she instantly demanded that my then girlfriend break up with me,

saying all kinds of lies about me, like how I was gonna dump her, as soon as I've used her,

or that I was only with her so she could pay for my college tuition. Instead of giving

into her grandma's demands, she held her ground and told her no, so the grandma kicked her out,

and she moved in with my family. While she's been living with me, my mother-in-law continued to have

no contact with her, and occasionally asked my wife for money. Now, I should point out that it was

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