By ElhonnaDS - 20/05/2013 16:25 - United States - White Plains
ElhonnaDS tells us more.
OP here- A couple of points of clarification: 1) She wasn't paying the bills- I was looking for a cheaper apartment. We'd have gone down from a 3-bedroom to a studio. Where I live, I would have been paying a pretty standard rate for what a studio is- it was just convenient to be renting from family, with whom I generally get along. 2) He's my fiancee now. We'd have been married by the time we moved in. 3) She has definitely had some interesting idea manifest over the last couple of years, as she has begun reading the Gospel according to Saint Google. It seems these days she will take any chain e-mail she gets with about the same degree of seriousness as the actual Bible. For most of my life, we have had very normal and respectful boundaries about our differences in belief. I knew she had some odd ideas, but the idea that she would demand to have control over every book, movie, piece of clothing, game, etc. that we had in an apartment we were paying to rent was much further out than I thought she was. 4) When I say she thinks they are demonic, I don't mean she doesn't want me watching Hellboy or other movies that are about demons. What she specifically said is that the physical objects (outlined as movies and books that depicted violence, sex, horror, fantasy, aliens, superheroes, any object that had any cultural reference that could be traced to a non-Christian religion or superstition, satanic heavy metal and video games, etc.) were actually all carrying demonic spirits in a real and physical sense, which would be brought into the apartment with them, and she needed to protect herself by not letting us bring the demons in (the apartment, while having a separate entrance, is attached to her house). So, needless to say, we thanked her very much and cancelled our plans to move into that apartment pretty much immediately. The FML is mostly that she's so far gone from when I was younger, and that she sprung this on us after we told everyone we were taking the apartment, rather than up front when we discussed rent, parking, furniture and pretty much every other detail.
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If she's so religious why is she okay with you staying with your fiance?
Why does she have to be religious? You can be against demonic things without being religious. Maybe she's just superstitious or the kind of person who believes in demons/ghosts/curses/faeries/etc.
But... Being religious is being superstitious?
not necessarily. i pull my forelock every time i see a magpie, avoid walking across three drains and under ladders, but i don't particularly believe in the divine. religion and superstition are different
You're the one paying the rent, just tell her how grateful you are for her renting you a cheaper place and firmly tell her that you're keeping everything. If she still restrains you then you must burn her alive! Jk, find another place or deal with it with the exceptions of cheaper rent
You have a hell of a problem there OP
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69 - Are you flirting with me? That's demonic...
and his comment was number 69, doubly demonic!
Oh PLEASE come back and post the list.
What religion is she?
Agree to the terms then ignore her and insure she doesn't have a key.
I know how that is...Jesus parents even on my own I can't keep something that is okie without getting an earful...
Never do business with family if you want to keep the peace.
I would love to know what was on that list just to see what level of psycho we are talking about here.
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I would have so much fun with that. Never mind movies and books; bring out the candles, robes, and spells!
Over controlling mother.. Classic