My husband and I have been married for only two and a half years. We have a 15-month-old daughter. One day, my husband confessed to a month-long extramarital affair with a relative. He admitted to being intimate with her once and said he felt guilty and needed to marry her to avoid ruining her life. He proposed that the three of us form a family. He refuses to divorce me and claims he will take care of both of us. I was shocked, as ours was a love marriage that, after a big fight with our families, we eventually presented as an arranged marriage.
After hearing his confession, I confronted the girl’s family. They were shocked and refused to let their daughter marry my husband, telling him to leave them alone. However, my husband insists he loves her and can’t forget her. I later discovered that the affair had actually been going on for six months and that my mother-in-law was involved. The girl confessed that my mother-in-law encouraged her to accept my husband and that both my husband and mother-in-law pressured and even tortured her to agree to the marriage. Now, her family fully supports me and has promised not to let my life be ruined.
My husband hasn’t fully recovered from the affair and still isn’t treating me well, although he hasn’t left me and our child. My mother-in-law continues to interfere in our family and is silently destroying it. I love my husband and want to save our marriage. What should I do about my mother-in-law? How can I get rid of her influence?