My fiances mother is very difficult and he has gone no contact this year. He is no contact with his siblings and never knew his father. He has two other relatives, his aunt who he has not seen since childhood and his mothers cousin who he has never met. They are easy to find online and he reached out to them. It's been really nice to establish new family relationships after the no contact. His cousin was on Christmas card terms with his mother until this year when she apparently was surprised to find didn't get one. The aunt is no contact with his mother. Anyway, the cousin has a huge valuable Victorian family portrait in her house and sent pictures. She explained how her father inhearited it as the son but his sister, fiances grandmother begged to have it in her house because she really liked it. Her father said he agreed as long as it was eventually given to his daughter. When fiances grandmother died it was in her will it should go to this cousin. Fiances mother knew this but took the painting from her late mothers house, tore off the huge gilt frame and dumped it in the neighbor's hedge so it was easier to carry on public transport (she can't drive). The neighbour saw the frame and the cousin was told it was stolen. It took the cousin 6 months to get the painting back as fiances mother begged her to let her keep the painting as her mother had been allowed and insisted on having a copy made before the painting was returned. The painting came back in a terrible state and cost the cousin 4 thousand pounds to repair. The cousin however didn't seem to be too annoyed and said she had exchanged Christmas cards with his mother every year, didn't hold grudges and had never held the incident against his mother in any way. She seemed keen to maintain a good relationship despite the bad behaviour. I was wondering if anyone else would forgive and forget if their cousin did this ? To me it seems weird not to at least have angry words. This cousin is an only child with a husband but no children so maybe she thought it wasn't worth losing a family relationship over? Currious to see how other people would react to this.