Woman Devastated After Ex ‘Revenge’ Buys Dream Home That Belonged to Her Late Grandparents

A man on Reddit says his ex-fiancée is fuming after he purchased a home that used to belong to her late grandparents.

"Ten years ago, my fiancée left me a few weeks before our wedding. We grew up in a small town. We were friendly, went to the same school, but we never were in the same clique. She was one of the popular kids and I wasn’t," he shared, adding that the pair eventually connected when he moved back home after college.

"It turned out we shared a lot of the same interests. It seemed like our relationship was going great. About a year or so into dating, ex and I moved into a rented house together. The following year, I proposed. We began looking for a house. [My] ex always wanted to live in her grandparents’ house on the lake near our town," he continued.

The man explained how his ex's family was forced to sell the house when her grandparents died due to an inheritance dispute.

"Six months before our wedding, a chance event happened. The couple who bought her grandparents' lake house had grown tired of our snowy winters. It took some work and nearly all of my savings, but I was able to buy her dream house," he revealed, adding he planned to surprise his then-fiancée with the house as a "wedding present."

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"A month before our wedding, ex and her friends went to Miami for her bachelorette party. I am not sure all of what happened there, part of me doesn’t really want to know, but I do know her high school [boyfriend] was there. When she got back from the trip, she broke down and confessed she was afraid to get married and wanted to call it off. It was a mess. She later moved to Florida and eventually married [her high school boyfriend]," he recalled.

The man eventually moved away, but he kept the lake house and started to fix it up.

"This summer we had the 4th of July at the lake house. My sister-in-law used photos from the lake this summer in her Christmas card. One of those cards made it to ex’s cousin. The cousin recognized the house. The Saturday before New Year’s, ex's mother and sister were at my front door. After pleasantries and answering their initial questions, they made an offer to buy it. I refused. They were not happy," he wrote.

A few days later, he received a "long text" from his ex-fiancée, marking the first time he had heard from her in nine long years.

"She called me an ass for keeping this from her. Her family is blaming her for losing the house again. She then asked me to sell. I still have no intention to sell. Now her and her family are complaining on social media that this is some sort of revenge," he concluded.

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Reddit users rallied behind the man in the comments section, with many suggesting he ignore his ex and her family.

"Your intention was to surprise your ex with the house at the wedding. If you had called off the wedding, I’d reconsider my judgment but she is the reason why she doesn’t have access to that house. On top of that, you’ve made the house your own. Enjoy it!" one person wrote.

"Living well is the best revenge. He needs to blast social media with photos every time he enjoys his beautiful slice-of-heaven lake house," another shared.

"Screw them. You owe them nothing," someone else chimed in.