Her Husband And In-Laws Wouldn’t Let Her Daughter Bring A Teddy Bear To His Birthday Dinner, So She Got A Different Table At The Restaurant, And It Made Her Husband Furious
This woman has a daughter who is just 10-years-old. At that age, you are supposed to be pleading with your parents for sleepovers and worrying about what cartoons come on after school.
Unfortunately, though, her daughter has had to deal with the weight of something much heavier– her 11-year-old best friend dying from leukemia.
So, her daughter has understandably been beyond devastated and trying to find ways to console herself. And one of the solutions has been a sentimental plush toy.
“My daughter started carrying around the teddy bear her friend gave her as a way to soothe and control her anxiety,” she explained.
And even though she thought that was a perfectly appropriate way for her daughter to grieve, her husband– who is her daughter’s stepfather– totally disagrees.
In fact, he actually thinks that it is absolutely ridiculous to carry a teddy bear around in public and even said her daughter is going through a “behavioral issue.”
Well, anyway, they just agreed to disagree on that topic until just yesterday– her husband’s birthday.
She, her husband, her daughter, and their extended family all had plans to go out to dinner and celebrate the occasion. But her husband was traveling separately, so he just told her and her daughter to meet him there.
And obviously, her daughter wanted to bring the teddy bear again– so she let her. But apparently, the moment her husband and mother-in-law spotted the plush toy, their faces turned white as a ghost.
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“Then, as I was taking a seat, my mother-in-law flat out said that she was sorry, but she could not allow my daughter to sit at the table with ‘important guests’ with a teddy bear,” she recalled. Plus, her husband even backed up her mother-in-law. Yikes.
She did not cause a whole scene like you might have expected, though. Instead, she just asked her mother-in-law when all of those “important guests” were supposed to arrive at the restaurant.
Then, once her mother revealed they had ten minutes, she just got up, took her daughter, and sat down at another dining table.
It was obvious that her husband was totally taken aback, as was his family. But no one said or did anything.
However, as guests started to arrive, they obviously recognized her and her daughter and asked why they were seated separately from the rest of the family.
Well, she decided to spill the beans, and amazingly, all of the guests began ditching her husband and sitting with her and her daughter!
“One by one, they started joining me. I don’t know how this happened. And my husband and his mom were furious about it– because eventually, only he, his mom, brothers, and their significant others were at their table,” she said.
Plus, all of the guests showed her daughter a great deal of positive attention and even asked a ton of questions about the special teddy bear. So, after about thirty minutes of that, her husband and in-laws ultimately had enough, got up, and just left the restaurant.
However, she did not follow suit– and rightfully so. Instead, she and her daughter stayed, enjoyed their meal, and went home later.
After she arrived home, though, she realized that her husband was nowhere to be found. Then, she started to receive some pretty nasty texts from both him and her mother-in-law.
Her husband and mother-in-law apparently had the nerve to call her petty and even accused her of ruining her husband’s birthday, stealing all the guests away, and turning his family members against him.
“He also mentioned how I could have left the toy in the car but chose to be disrespectful, and now the outcome is awful,” she vented.
So, her husband ended up staying at his parent’s house that night and has not gone home since. And now, she is starting to wonder if getting herself and her daughter their own table was the wrong thing to do since it seems to have just escalated the situation.
Do you think it is normal for her daughter to want to carry around the teddy bear? Why do you think her husband is so against it? If you were in her shoes, would you have gotten a separate dining table, too?
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