You’ll be home alone on New Year’s Eve, and I’m embarrassed to go out with you, my husband declared.

Mom Sold Her Apartment for Yulia — and Moved In to Take Over Our Home
Elena Mikhailovna came to stay “for two weeks,” but she ended up living with us for almost three months. During that time she tried to control everything: constant criticism, rearranging our things, commenting on Anna’s cooking, even helping herself to money from my wallet under the excuse of “household needs.”
When I asked her to stop, she revealed the truth — she had sold her apartment and given all the money to Yulia. She never planned to leave our place.
That day I packed her suitcase and drove her to Yulia’s apartment — the place where all her savings had gone. Yulia was shocked to see her standing there with luggage, and her boyfriend Nikolai immediately walked out. He wasn’t willing to live with my mother.
Yulia blamed me, but I reminded her she had taken the money without considering where Mom would live afterward.
For the first time, my mother had to face the result of her own choices — not “ungrateful children,” but the consequences she created herself.