His Sister-In-Law Wouldn’t Stop Complaining About Her Ex And Throwing Around Buzzwords During A Nice Dinner, So He Asked Her If She Had A Degree In Psychology
Do you have someone in your life who will find any reason to talk about their ex?
One man recently snapped at his sister-in-law, who wouldn’t stop complaining about her ex-boyfriend as if she were a licensed psychologist at what was supposed to be a nice dinner.
He’s married to his wife, and they’re both in their 30s. His wife has a 24-year-old sister named Suzy, who was recently over at their house for what was supposed to be a nice evening of dinner and drinks.
Unfortunately, just before the dinner, Suzy had broken up with her boyfriend of two years.
Suddenly, once Suzy arrived at their house, it was as if the sole purpose of her visit was to vent about her ex-boyfriend. She started venting not long after she got there, and she would not stop.
He tried to change the subject several times, but after about an hour of listening to Suzy bash her ex, he decided to head into the kitchen to start cooking dinner and have some alone time. But then, his wife and Suzy decided to sit at their kitchen island and continue drinking and chatting while he cooked.
“Every single word out of Suzy’s mouth was about her ex, and it wasn’t just normal badmouthing,” he explained.
“She was using a bunch of clinical and therapy buzzwords like ‘narcissist,’ ‘gaslighting,’ ‘toxic,’ ‘disregarding boundaries,’ etc. I tried to change the topic multiple times but to no avail. I tried turning on music to drown out Suzy’s psycho-babble, but she just talked over it.”
At one point, Suzy told a story about her ex and asked him if he thought it was something a narcissist would do. He told her since he wasn’t a psychologist, he wouldn’t know, hoping she’d take the hint that she should lay off the ex-talk for a while.
Jose Calsina – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
However, Suzy kept pushing him, trying to get him to contribute to the conversation. That’s when he snapped.
He asked Suzy, “Do you have a degree in psychology, Suzy? Are you a therapist, or are you just regurgitating terms you heard on TikTok?”
He then told Suzy to move on or get out of his kitchen. Suzy became very upset and ran out of the room with his wife behind her. After he finished cooking, his wife returned to the kitchen alone and told him that Suzy had taken an Uber home because she didn’t feel welcome in their house anymore.
“I told her that I had politely tried to redirect the conversation multiple times and even gently asked them both to leave the room so I could cook, but Suzy insisted on goading me about my opinion on something that I care literally zero about,” he recalled.
“My wife told me I should have just humored Suzy because she’s going through a breakup and needed a safe place to vent.”
He told his wife there was a difference between venting and using psychological terms and pretending to know everything.
Should he not have snapped at Suzy like that?
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