Confronting family about stealing?

How would you approach a family member who you know has stolen from your family, but it was 2 years ago?

The reason why I’m just now thinking about bringing it up is because at this point, I’ve finally faced the reality that things were stolen rather than lost. My husband had two nice watches that “went missing” at my mom’s and grandparent’s house less than a year apart. First he had an Armani watch that went missing back in 2018. He took it off, placed it down at my mom’s house, and he never saw it since. It was a house full of people. It was my mom, stepdad, 3 sisters who are teenagers, and a couple of my stepdad’s nephews who are my age (29). Well, at first I was thinking it fell in the couches. We looked, and they also gave us those couches this year because they moved into a new house. When they moved earlier this year I was thinking “oh maybe they will now find your watch that you lost a couple years ago,” but nothing came up. I figured if it was just lost, then it would have came up when they moved this year.....NOPE.

The thing is I want to point the finger at my stepdad’s nephews.....However...

I can’t, because like I said, he also “lost” a Micheal Kors watch at my grandparent’s house like less than a year after his Armani watch “went missing.” My stepdad’s nephews were not around when his Michael Kors couldn’t be found. My mom, grandparents, three sisters, uncle, my husband, and I were there when it went missing. We checked everywhere and couldn’t find it.

For the past two years I guess I was in denial about someone stealing from my husband. Especially someone in my immediate family. I think I’ve come to terms that someone took those watches.

For these past two years I actually blamed my husband for being so careless with these expensive items. It got to the point where I told him no more watches because I thought he kept losing them. He agreed because he even thought he lost them.

I told him that if he buys anymore watches please just hand them to me if he wants to take them off in public.

Now my question is, would you even approach this situation to your family members who you think took his watches? I’ve narrowed it down. Or...just let it go be because it was a couple years ago?

I’m just so disappointed. I’m so close with my family.

Edit: @Briabella...Where does it say that we were “staying with relatives, and that we didn’t have our own place?????” ......We go see my mom and grandparents multiple times a week. We were visiting them when those things were stolen. Also, what does them giving us furniture have to with my husband’s watch being stolen? Not sure why you needed to point that out, but we also moved into a new place this year and they were getting rid of their furniture, so we decided to take it. Also, the person(s) who I believe took them were absolutely not “helping us out.”

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