📝 AITAH for wanting to pursue legal actions?

By Frequent_Truth90 • Score: 4 • April 12, 2025 5:03 AM


Hi, first time post here ever for me. I've been really angry and depressed about my issue, with no support from my SO on this. So my babies are the first great grand kids in my family. My grandpa(86M) wants to be involved with them but lives states away. Since he's too old for traveling and they're both under 2 I haven't taken them to see him yet. Every month he sends me money to buy them things as a way of being apart of their lives. Apart from video calls and tons of pictures/videos from me. I get informed delivery of all the mail coming to my residence which I live at with at with SO, MIL, & BIL. Letter from Gpa was in email photos, so I checked the mail several times that day. Never received any mail. Called post office for a few days asking if it was there, they said every time after checking around it was not. SO starts searching house, thinking it might of got set down by someone else. He finds all the other mail from that day in MIL room, but not my letter. Asks her questions about if she had it, checked the mail, etc. She says no, was in bed all day after a procedure the day before. I tell SO to ask BIL, since 2 days after the letter mail day he "wins" exact amount at casino, wasn't suspicious then because didn't know of other mail being brought in. He denies it was him. SO says we will file police report to check post office as well as have them go to casino and check cameras to see if he did in fact win the money. BIL gets very defensive, still denies it was him and says he'll pawn belongings and give us the amount so "we don't go through all the problems of police report, I've been arrested over false allegations before and don't want that to happen again." SO is very certain it was him. I was given no apology, no reimbursement. SO says to let it go and not trust BIL anymore. Moves on. I'm still pissed off that my personal property, my mail was violated and nothing was done about it. WIBTAH for still filing a police report? I give and do so much for this family, extremely kindhearted willing to go above and beyond for them. For nothing to have come of this? I've been focusing on my babies but the anger is turning to depression that I wasn't stood up for, the wrong against me even just apologized for? I would like for my money back, but at the very least just acknowledged what happened was wrong and my SO doing more than just letting it go. I have opened a P.O. Box only I have access to as well so this can not happen again.

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