Her Brother-In-Law Saved Her 4-Year-Old Daughter From Drowning In A Lake, But She Didn’t Thank Him For This, So Her Sister Called Her Ungrateful
If you’re a parent, has one of your relatives ever helped make sure your kid was safe from harm?
One woman’s brother-in-law recently saved her young daughter from drowning in a lake. However, she has yet to thank him because he made an aggressive comment after doing so.
She has a four-year-old daughter who doesn’t know how to swim yet. She doesn’t know how to swim either, but her husband does.
Recently, her cousin threw a birthday party for their kid, and it was on a lake. Unfortunately, her husband couldn’t be there, so she had to give her daughter a talk about water safety and told her always to wear her life jacket.
She also has a toddler son and brought him to the party. At one point in the day, she had to feed her son and put him down for a nap.
“I left my cousin in charge of my daughter while I left to feed my son,” she recalled.
“My daughter hadn’t been into the water at all, and I thought she was fine. She was not. I still don’t really know what happened. One second, everything was fine, and the next, everyone was screaming. I got down to the lake’s edge just as my brother-in-law was pulling my daughter from the lake.”
She noticed that her daughter’s life jacket had been removed at some point, and her brother-in-law had to find ways to get her daughter to cough up the water she had swallowed. Thankfully, her daughter was okay.
Once everything had settled down, her brother-in-law snapped at her. He said that bad parents led to dead kids and that she needed to teach her daughter how to swim.
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“I didn’t really have much of a response, [I] just packed up my kids and drove her to the ER,” she said.
“She’s completely fine, just a little shaken up and very afraid of water.”
While in the ER, her sister texted and said she needed to thank her brother-in-law for saving her daughter’s life. But because she was occupied with her daughter, she didn’t respond immediately, leading to her sister calling her ungrateful.
Now, she’s stuck in the middle of a lot of drama between her sister and brother-in-law and has barely been able to process everything.
“My brother-in-law DM’ed me, asking if I would have rather she drowned,” she added.
“Following that, I have received message after message. I tried to explain that I’ve been busy, but my sister said not to contact them unless it’s to thank him and apologize. I will probably thank him just to keep the peace, but I think they’re out of line. There was no need for his comment and their following behavior.”
She’s hesitant as to what she should do. While she’s thankful for what her brother-in-law did that day, she’s very hurt by what he said to her and how he’s been treating her since. Her husband thinks she should cut contact with him and her sister, while her other family members think she should thank him right away.
How should she approach this situation with her brother-in-law?
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