After I Gifted My Daughter a House, My Daughter-in-Law Revealed Her True Colors

When Amber Gilbert passes her civil service exam, her mother buys her a downtown apartment outright and wires her three hundred thousand dollars to celebrate. Amber posts the deed online, and the family group chat erupts. Her daughter-in-law, Melissa Lawrence, is furious: she gave the Gilbert family a son and received only a two-hundred-thousand-dollar bonus, while Amber, a "money pit," gets an entire apartment.

Melissa takes to social media to air the grievance, and the two women tear into each other for hundreds of messages. She arrives home clutching her infant son Noah, a suitcase at her feet, threatening to leave. Amber storms downstairs and the argument escalates until Melissa flips the dining table, sending china crashing to the floor.

Fed up, the mother sends Melissa to her parents' house. When Jude Gilbert returns from his business trip, Melissa demands three million dollars to come back, claiming her brother's wedding needs the money. It is not the first such request.