She Doesn’t Want To Take Her Mom To Go Wedding Dress Shopping Since She Always Makes Mean Comments About Her Weight
This woman is marrying her fiancé and is struggling with her mother, who tends to nitpick her looks and deliver backhanded compliments.
So when it came time to try on wedding dresses, she decided to make a day of it with her bridesmaids and shop for their dresses.
When she chose only to invite her two bridesmaids, sister-in-law, and sister, her mother became upset, dragging her whole family into the argument.
She knew the issue was becoming larger when her step-father began probing her for answers to why she was excluding her mother.
Though she has fair reasons for not inviting her mother, her dad seems bent on guilting her into doing so.
“My whole life my mum has seemed so toxic to me and selfish,” she explained.
“She will always make little comments about my appearance or weight, or be ‘telling a story’ she heard about someone else but still throw a little jab in there about me.”
Her sister was the one to tell their mother about the shopping trip. So now, her mother is communicating through her sister, asking again and again why she wasn’t invited.
Still, she is afraid to address the deeper issues in their relationship. And the trip itself is set to be drama free — she described wanting it to be “an intimate day with my bridesmaids that I don’t see often.”
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Redditors shared their opinions about the situation, largely agreeing that the trip would be better without her mother’s negative energy.
One user wrote, “If she wants to be included in such things, she has to show you basic respect and not repeatedly insult you.”
But they also made sure to tell her that she should reach out and say something if she ever wanted to improve their relationship.
“You would be in the wrong if you didn’t tell her the reasons you weren’t inviting her. Otherwise, she would just continue with the same behavior and not see how this is her consequence.”
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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