She’s Refusing To Spend Christmas With Her In-Laws Unless She’s Allowed To Wear A Hat, And Then Her Mother-In-Law Accused Her Of Being The Devil
A month ago, this 25-year-old woman got married, and sadly, she does not get along well with her mother-in-law at all.
At her own wedding, her mother-in-law even tried to be the star of the show, and everything has been downhill since then.
She says her mother-in-law really does dislike her for whatever reason, but this past Thanksgiving gave her mother-in-law a real reason to hate her.
“At Thanksgiving, I was having a really bad hair day, so I wore a black leather cap (a dressier newsboy-style one), which my husband said looked great on me,” she explained.
“The holiday was hostile, even more so than prior gatherings I’d been to, and hubby said MIL said it was because I wore a hat, but I know it was just an excuse. I told MIL I wouldn’t come to Christmas with them, then blocked her number and Facebook.”
Since then, her husband has been upset, as he hates any kind of bad blood. He wants her to try to come to Christmas with his family this year as a last-ditch effort to see if his family can warm up to her and be more inclusive.
Her husband even tried to lay down the law with his own mom, stating that his mom needs to be kind and treat her like she’s family now.
Her husband also mentioned to his mom that if she feels like she’s not welcome at Christmas, that will be it on them attending family events, and his mom will no longer spend any time with him.
She totally gets why her husband is looking for one last shot with his mom, especially since she knows he doesn’t want to cut his mom out of his life, but that doesn’t mean she ever intends to spend any quality time with his mom.
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Anyway, as her husband was relaying to his mom all of this, she asked her husband to tell his mom that she wanted to be permitted to wear the exact same hat she wore to Thanksgiving.
Her husband was confused, as he thought she only put it on to cover up a bad hair day, but for Christmas, the hat will have a whole new meaning.
“…This time, it’s as a statement that they shouldn’t treat me as an outsider, either because I wear hats all the time (right now, it’s just a sports visor, which I’d never wear to a holiday, so it’s not like I’m doing that) or they just don’t like me,” she said.
“If they won’t let me wear a hat, what else are they going to restrict about me? Let me be me, or I won’t come. Period.”
“My husband agreed and relayed this to MIL, and she’s been asking him why he married the devil. He’s growing tense with me, and I told him he’ll probably have to pick a side sooner or later and that I never intended it that way. He spent last night at a friend’s house because he needed to think. I feel bad because I care about him and know conflict stresses him out. I told him to text me when he was ready to talk. He hasn’t yet.”
She filled her friends in on the situation, and they all believe that her pushing the hat thing was going too far.
They also think the hat may have caused more undue stress on her own marriage.
She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to say she won’t be spending Christmas with her in-laws unless they let her wear the hat.
What do you think?
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