My husband and I went through a tough patch last year and we ended up separated for awhile he went back to his parents home, he told his parents alot of our problems and his mom immediately took his side.

Even though me and my husband had problems on both our ends, I feeling overwhelmed while working from home, looking after three kids with no assistance and keeping the house up to date, while my husband felt like I wasn't that interested in him nor our marriage anymore.

I will admit I wish I could have done more to not have us separate, but he refused to help me as he works nights shifts and felt he needed to catch up on sleep and other things during the day.

Like I said his mom, my MIL took his side and made every attempt to attack me for forcing her son to step up. In order to keep our marriage and peace I did ask my husband to try marriage counseling with me, before we caused more issues that lead to a divorce.

Thankfully after a few sessons we saw each other's side of things and put an effort into our marriage and he moved back in.

MIL twice thought she could press her son for details on our progress, but if she didn't like something that had changed she threw a fit over it, I told my husband at our next session how I felt and with the counselors suggestion, told my husband if he could stop talking to me about her, at the same time I was going NC with her. He agreed and whenever she questioned him, he only answered 'great' before changing the subject.

Now recently our counselor suggested a weekend to ourselves, something we haven't had in a while, and we did this weekend, everything was amazing. After working across town on Monday I came back to a spotless house and a cooked meal my husband had made for myself and the kids before he left for work.

His mood was off and when I asked he told me he had to kick out his mother after she showed up with some work papers, but through a massive fit when she saw him washing the dishes, started screaming things like, 'you're not my son, you're not my son, what has that [woman] done to you, you should have ended things months ago'. My husband told her if she was going to act like she was she could leave, she then started crying which resulted in my husband throwing her out.