She Didn’t Invite Her Sister-In-Law’s Family To A Barbecue This Year Because They Ate All The Food At Last Year’s Gathering, And She Got Accused of Fat-Shaming Her Sister-In-Law
This woman likes to host barbecues and beach days for her family. However, her sister-in-law’s family is reportedly morbidly obese.
She claims that her sister-in-law and her sister-in-law’s husband are both over 300 pounds. And their daughter, who is just 12 years old, is reportedly “pushing 200 pounds.”
“They’re the type of people to buy a smoker and a giant chest freezer for $3,000-plus but fail to pay their mortgage and land tax and ask family to help them out,” she explained.
“And when they are called out on it, it’s met with a ‘making sure my family is fed is my top priority.'”
Now, she agrees that feeding a family is a major priority. However, she thinks it’s a big issue that her sister-in-law’s family of three tends to eat enough food for 10 people.
Anyway, this all came to a head last year when she extended two invitations to her sister-in-law’s family for a barbecue and beach day.
She detailed how, on both occasions, her sister-in-law’s family ate all of the food so quickly that many of the other guests didn’t even know she was offering food at the gathering.
“I vividly remember them putting three hamburgers, four hotdogs, and nearly half a container of pasta salad on their plates and still going up for seconds and thirds,” she recalled.
“I wish I were kidding, but I’m not.”
Kalim – stock.adobe.com- illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
That’s why, for the second barbecue she hosted last year, she decided to buy even more food for all of her guests. Yet, her sister-in-law’s family proceeded to take all of the leftovers without even asking first.
She didn’t find out until afterward, once all of the food was gone– including the dishes– and her kids were still hungry.
She knows it was her sister-in-law’s family who did it, too, since they had been the only people who left by that point.
So, for this year’s barbecue and beach day, she decided just not to invite her sister-in-law, her sister-in-law’s husband, or their daughter.
“I can’t afford to feed them, and quite frankly, I don’t want to feed them,” she reasoned.
“I don’t want to have a beach day and have to run out to the store midway through to get my kids something to eat when I know I packed and cooked plenty to last a day.”
The barbecue and beach day reportedly went great, too, and no guest was left hungry.
However, her sister-in-law wound up finding out that they weren’t invited and was seriously furious.
First, her sister-in-law claimed that they “would have liked a family meal, too.” But she just responded that she couldn’t afford to feed her sister-in-law’s family.
At that point, her sister-in-law asked what that meant. So, in the nicest way possible, she tried to explain the food issue to her sister-in-law.
Ever since then, she has gotten called every name in the book and was accused of both embarrassing and fat-shaming her sister-in-law.
And now, she’s been left wondering whether inviting everyone to the gathering except for her sister-in-law’s family was really the wrong thing to do.
Can you understand why she didn’t want to host her sister-in-law’s family again or not? Do you think she handled this the right way? Or could she have addressed the situation better?
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