Her Sister-In-Law Screamed At Her For Making Her Look Fat While Rock Climbing
Most of us know by now how inappropriate it can be to comment on someone’s body weight or appearance, and it can feel terrible to be accused of doing so.
One woman set up a rock-climbing exercise for her brother and his wife while they were in town, not knowing that she had gained significant weight since she last saw her. Then, she returned home and was accused of purposefully trying to embarrass her.
She’s 20-years-old and is incredibly passionate about sports.
She’s the junior coach of a wrestling team, referees basketball games three times a week, and can frequently be found at her local gym rock wall climbing. She’s been competitively rock climbing and has her own equipment.
Recently, her 29-year-old brother and his 30-year-old wife came into town for the holidays. She doesn’t see them often, as they live on the other side of the country. She had only met her sister-in-law once in person and hadn’t seen her in over three years.
Before their visit, her brother told her that he and his wife were looking for some trust exercises they could do while they were in town. She told him she could bring them to the gym for rock climbing.
“He asked how much weight the harnesses and rope could hold,” she recalled.
“I looked it up, and it [holds] over 2000 pounds. He also asked how it was trust-based.”
She told her brother that one person acts as a belayer while the other climbs the wall and that the belayer is in charge of the ropes that hold up the climber and ensure they don’t fall, so rock wall climbing is similar to a trust exercise.
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However, she had no idea that rock wall climbing would be challenging for her sister-in-law when she recommended it to her brother.
“I have only met my brother’s wife once due to him moving across the country,” she explained.
“She was an average weight when I met her. However, I didn’t know that over the course of [three and a half] years, she had gained over 300 pounds, and my brother didn’t mention that exercise might be an issue. I didn’t comment about her weight when we met up at the gym.”
She went to complete a more challenging rock climbing exercise while her brother and his wife did a more basic exercise.
However, after only 25 minutes, her brother went up to her and said he and his wife were leaving and would see her when she got home.
She thought nothing of it and completed her workout. But when she finished at the gym, she arrived home to a lot of drama.
“My sister-in-law cornered me and screamed at me, talking about how I set her up to make her look and feel fat and how I [rubbed] my athleticism in her face,” she said.
“I apologized, but she and my brother got a hotel room, and both of them [are refusing] to speak to me.”
Did she do anything wrong by suggesting rock climbing to her brother and sister-in-law, or is her sister-in-law being unreasonable?
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