Some people respond to being told no by finding a more creative way to say yes on your behalf. The future mother-in-law in this story is a graduate-level practitioner of that skill

Before this update, I wrote: «Wedding gifts should come with strings attached, but when your fiancé’s mother is a puppet master like this woman, you’re better off with no gifts at all,» and, well, not to brag, I was spot on.

Now our bride-to-be shares an update, because when she thought it was over, for her mother-in-law, it only just begun.