This woman is a mom to two twin girls who are 18-years-old, and both of her girls took the SAT last month.
Yesterday, the results came in, and her daughter Laura did great, but her daughter Emily didn’t do that well at all.
Emily worked very hard on her SAT prep, so she was super disappointed in the score she received.
Emily has always had a tougher time than Laura when it comes to schoolwork, and Laura doesn’t have to try nearly as hard to excel.
“My MIL has always favored Laura, mostly because she does better in school,” she explained. “She won’t show it very obviously, but in little ways.”
“For example, she makes them a birthday cake most years and always writes Laura’s name bigger and first.”
“Emily resents this a bit but doesn’t mind too much, as they rarely see their grandma. Only Laura regularly video calls her, with my husband.”
Her mother-in-law called them yesterday to check in on how the girls did on their SATs, so she handed the phone to Laura to speak to her mother-in-law.
Before she did pass the phone, Emily informed her that she did not want to speak to her at all.
Laura told her mother-in-law how she did, and she could hear her mother-in-law getting super excited. Her mother-in-law then questioned Laura about how Emily did, and Laura simply said it went “alright.”
Laura handed the phone back to her, and her mother-in-law wanted to know if she could visit the girls to congratulate Laura. She let her mother-in-law know that was fine, and today, her mother-in-law dropped by their house while her husband was working.
Her mother-in-law had a box of cookies, and when she came in, she handed them to Laura and mentioned she was proud of her.
“Emily was standing there too and looked hurt,” she said. “I asked if she had brought anything for Emily.”
“She laughed a little and said not this time, but she’ll make even better cookies when Emily does her resit (no one told her she was resitting, my MIL just assumed).”
“Emily went upstairs, and I think she was crying. So I told my MIL very sharply that she can take her…cookies and get out. She was shocked and angry, but she left. Laura is also upset because she says she earned it, and I’m ruining her relationship with her grandma. My husband says I had no right.”
She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to kick her mother-in-law out of the house. What do you think?
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