After His Wife Called His Ex’s Family “Unemployed Trailer Park Trash” While At A Dinner With Their Friends, He Reprimanded Her In Front Of Everyone
Do you know people you’re not super close to anymore, but you still appreciate them and respect them?
One man recently got upset with his wife after she made some judgmental comments about the mother of his son at a dinner with friends.
He has a 13-year-old son from a previous marriage. He knew his first wife when they were teenagers. They had their son during their senior year of high school. Although he and his son’s mother are now divorced and aren’t close anymore, he still greatly appreciates her and her family.
His ex-wife’s large family hasn’t had the greatest reputation. Many of them are tough-looking tattooed people and live in a trailer park.
His ex has uncles and brothers who have spent time in jail. However, they were incredibly supportive and helpful after they had their son.
People say it “takes a village” to raise a baby, and he said his ex-wife’s family was like his village when his son was born.
Years have passed since his divorce, and he is now remarried. He recently had dinner with his son and wife at their friend’s house. Once the meal was over, his son went to play video games with their friend’s son in the other room.
Although he wasn’t at the table, he was still in earshot of all the adults who stayed there to chat.
Somehow they got onto the subject of tattoos. His friend mentioned his ex-brother-in-law and the impressive tattoos he has.
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Then, his wife made a negative comment about his ex’s family and their tattoos and said his son would soon be covered in them.
He told her he wouldn’t mind if his son had tattoos as long as they weren’t bad. His wife replied by saying his son could become “unemployed trailer park trash” like his mom’s family.
He was appalled by his wife’s comments, especially because she said them in front of friends and with his son just a few feet away.
He knows his son has told his wife great things about his mom and her family, so he doesn’t understand why she would make those rude remarks. He told her he couldn’t believe she had said that.
“I followed this up by essentially telling her she had no right to talk about my son’s family like that and pass judgment on people she doesn’t know,” he remembered.
“I also told her I don’t agree with her sentiment that tattoos equal unemployment and that the majority of my ex’s family are happily employed.”
In fact, several members of his ex-wife’s family own businesses. Her brother, the one with all the big tattoos, went from being a semi-professional boxer to a business owner with a master’s degree.
After that, they stopped talking about his ex-wife, and things were awkward between him and his wife for the rest of the night.
After they got home and started getting ready for bed, his wife was angry with him for speaking to her like that in front of their friends.
She didn’t like that he defended his ex and thought he made her look like a jerk. He explained that she shouldn’t have said such things while his son could hear her. He ended up sleeping in a different room that night.
When he met with his brother the next day, he told him he should’ve waited until they got home from dinner to say those things to his wife.
His brother also said that publicly defending his ex-wife sends the “wrong message” to his current wife.
Should he not have said anything at the dinner table that night, or was he right to defend his son’s mother?
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