He Asked His Girlfriend To Ease Up With Her Dinner Joke Tradition While His Parents Are In Town, And She Got Very Offended
When it’s time to introduce our partners to our parents or close relatives, getting nervous about being embarrassed by either side is normal.
One man recently asked his girlfriend to ease up on her dinner joke tradition while his parents were in town, and she got very offended.
He’s 28-years-old and has been with his girlfriend for a little over a year. They recently moved into an apartment together on the west coast.
His parents still live on the east coast and are due to stay with them for a weekend in about three weeks, so he and his girlfriend have been preparing their place for them.
There is something he’s worried about ahead of his parents’ visit, and it has to do with his girlfriend’s quirky dinnertime ritual.
“My girlfriend does this thing every night where when we serve dinner, she tells some sort of little pun or knock-knock joke, and then says ‘Dinner and a joke!'” he explained.
“And then we eat. She does it for every meal she makes [and] even the meals I make.”
He believes this was a tradition her late dad started, and it makes his girlfriend very happy.
“I’m a little tired of it, but I know it makes her happy, and it’s important to her, so I smile and play along, and I never say anything about it getting old,” he said.
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However, his parents aren’t very silly people. His mom is a Ph.D. chemist and medical doctor, and his dad is a very serious surgeon. While he acknowledges that not all people who work in medicine are super serious, his parents are. They also have a tendency to be quite critical.
He fears they’ll find his girlfriend’s “dinner and a joke” annoying and doesn’t want his girlfriend to get upset if they say something.
So, he talked with his girlfriend and asked her to stop her dinner joke tradition just for the weekend his parents are over. Then, she can go right back to it.
Unfortunately, this really offended his girlfriend, and she told him he was being a jerk before going to stay at her mom’s house for two whole days.
Was he being mean by asking his girlfriend to stop her dinner jokes, or was he just trying to protect her?
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