21-year-old pregnant woman had shared her story on Reddit’s “AITA” subreddit. The pregnant OP stated that she is pregnant to her twins, and also has a 2-year-old son with her 27-year-old husband.
Her husband had wanted his mother to move in with them after his father passed away, due to his mother’s old age. But OP was not happy with the moving in of her mother-in-law, as she described her, “she is extremely nitpicking and always finds something wrong with the way I do things.”
OP explained that her mother-in-law is from South Asian culture, while she was raised in the west. And stated that she is trying her best to respect her culture but her mother-in-law is not an easy person to live with.
After the mother-in-law had moved in with them, the old woman was ordering to OP, as if she was her slave. OP stated that she is doing her best to please her mother-in-law, but at one point, she had enough.
“She finds some kinda fault with everything I do!!! It gotten so stressful for me that it ends up leaving me in tears.” OP wrote.
Her mother-in-law wanted OP to cook a traditional dish, which she had no idea what was it. So she asked for help, and her mother-in-law had refused to help her. OP spend whole night researching for the dish. After she tried her best to cook it, mother-in-law commented that it was awful, and throw the plate she worked hard for.
“With cleaning she’s always watching me telling me that I’m not cleaning right and that she doesn’t understand how her son could marry someone who doesn’t even know how to be a wife.” OP added.
As the mother-in-law was continuing on her terrible treatment towards the OP, she tried to talk with her for a more normal behaviour. Then her mother-in-law would talk with her husband, and accuse her as if she was the disrespectful one.
“I’m pregnant and exhausted and can no longer cope with this anymore to I told my mother in law that enough is enough and that I’m no longer doing anything for her until she learns to treat me with respect and whether she likes it or not I’m the mother of her grandson and unborn granddaughters which makes me family.” OP explained.
As she confronted her mother-in-law, she started to call her names, and accuse her as being distespectful. The mother-in-law said to OP that, “she’s disgusted her son choose me.” Then she called her son, and acted as if she was the hurted one.
After her husband listened the story from his mother, he supported her, against his wife. Even though OP tried to talk with her husband, he was stating that his mother was still grieving, and she should put more effort for her.
“But the thing is I brought this to my husband attention enough times and all he did was downplay his mom’s actions and claim that she’s warm up to me soon enough which she hasn’t.” OP concluded.
Many Redditors had stated that she was not wrong in any of her actions, and she should kick the mother-in-law out, or talk with husband for the situation, where he should send the mother-in-law to a care facility.
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