She Called Her Mother-In-Law Uneducated On Nutrition And Kicked Her Out After Her Mother-In-Law Started Criticizing The Pasta She Cooked Her Son For Dinner
When you’re a parent, it can be really annoying to be judged for the food you’re feeding your kid. Every kid is different. Some kids have certain food restrictions, and at the end of the day, being able to feed your kid at all is a victory.
One woman recently snapped at her mother-in-law after she gave her grief for giving her son a meal without meat in it one night for dinner.
She and her husband have an 18-month-old son, and she’s pregnant with their second child. They live in a major city, and her husband’s mom lives about 45 minutes away from them.
Her mother-in-law has a doctor near their home, so every time she has an appointment, she likes to spend the night with them afterward so as not to go home in rush hour traffic. It’s also nice because she gets to visit her grandson.
However, a recent visit from her mother-in-law has made her not want to invite her back.
Her mother-in-law was at her house just before dinnertime as she had a doctor’s appointment earlier that day.
“I was just about done cooking dinner [and] my husband was at the gym,” she recalled.
“I felt absolutely exhausted from pregnancy and chasing my toddler around all day. We were running low on groceries, so I was planning to make a really easy dinner of spaghetti with frozen meatballs. But when I went to start cooking, I realized we were out of the meatballs. It was too late to go to the store to get something else to make; my kid was already acting hungry, and I was starving and exhausted. So I just thought we [didn’t] need to have protein with every single meal and made the pasta without meatballs.”
When she gave her son a plate of pasta, her mother-in-law began giving her some attitude, implying that a plate of pasta wasn’t enough to satisfy him. She explained the grocery situation to her mother-in-law, hoping she’d understand and leave her alone, but unfortunately, she continued to nag.
Maria Sbytova – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
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Her mother-in-law then said she wished she had texted her about not having enough food because she could’ve gone to the grocery after her appointment and gotten a “real dinner” for her grandson and future grandbaby.
That comment really bothered her, as the pasta was a “real” meal, and her son had plenty of protein-rich food earlier in the day.
“I told her maybe she’s uneducated with how much protein humans actually need and [that] there [was] nothing wrong with our dinner,” she recalled.
“She immediately got very upset that I called her uneducated when she’s ‘raised three boys‘ and she knows what growing boys need to eat.”
Then, her mother-in-law told her she should’ve been more prepared, which set her off. She snapped and yelled at her mother-in-law, telling her to get out of her home and that she needed to stop coming over if she would keep judging her mothering capabilities.
Her mother-in-law left with a huff and later called her husband to tell him she had a “hormone-induced rage.” Her mother-in-law hasn’t apologized, and her husband wants them to apologize to each other to keep the peace.
However, she believes she has nothing to apologize for, that her mother-in-law was the one in the wrong.
Should she apologize to her mother-in-law?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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