Source: Reddit
Edit: they aren’t married, referring to her as DIL is just easier for the sake of storytelling.
Our son and DIL (26 yo) have been together for 2 years and live together. We’ve always thought she’ a very nice girl and she seems to make my son happy, so no problem from us.
Our son has his own law firm that he’s currently trying to get started. We’re very proud of him, and we’re fortunate enough to help him with a start up loan. DIL works a retail job that she’s very happy with.
Some time ago my husband and I were over at their apartment and we decided to order some food. Husband and I wanted to pay, and since DIL was ordering from her phone we gave her our card so she could draw the money from our account. We thought it goes without saying this was to draw an amount once, for lunch. However DIL apparently put our card into her Apple Pay, and have been using it since.
We didn’t notice for some months but recently saw withdrawals we didn’t recognize. We had our accountant look into it, and he discovered that 1) DIL has been using our card on her phone and that 2) she’s spent around 17K. We were quite shocked and called her up and asked why the hell she’s been using our card. She got very defensive, tried to deny it and eventually said she was entitled to it, and why do we care since we haven’t noticed her use for over 4 months. We told her she needed to pay us back immediately or we’d report her actions for theft.
She apparently doesn’t have the money to pay us back. We’ve gone to our son and he’s offered to pay us back even though he actually cannot afford to. This isn’t about the money for us, but more about the fact that she’s stolen a huge amount of money. While we are comfortable and it took us time to notice, we still recognize the seriousness of stealing 17.000 USD. Our son has completely dismissed her behavior and excused it as her being stressed. She’s taken no responsibility, and we’re honestly wanting to go forward with the police report to teach her consequences to her actions. Would we be TA for doing this?
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