This woman has a 31-year-old son named Peter, and in under three months, he’s marrying 29-year-old Ellie.
She has never liked Ellie or gotten close to her, even though Ellie has been with Peter for close to 7 years.
Ellie is not friendly at all, and she also has some serious concerns about how Ellie behaves. One example of Ellie’s poor behavior is from back when Ellie started dating Peter.
Peter was living with her back then, and Ellie would come on the weekends to visit. Ellie and Peter would cook dinner at her house, yet never invite her to have dinner with them.
“I found this to be incredibly rude, as it felt like they were excluding me in my own home,” she explained.
“There was also an incident where she was using the washing machine when it overflowed, which completely warped my hardwood floors and led to me having to cancel a dinner party I had been planning for weeks while I got someone out to fix them.”
“Over the years, she’s barely made an effort to get to know me, and every overture I’ve made has been rebuffed. I even made her a birthday dinner one year, and she said she felt sick, which delayed dinner for everyone else, and it was cold by the time she was “feeling better.”
When Peter proposed to Ellie, she was sad that Ellie failed to reach out to her. Then, she gave them a substantial sum of money to help them pay for their upcoming wedding, and she didn’t receive a thank you from Ellie.
Later on, during a phone call, Ellie briefly said thanks, but in a way that was utterly ungrateful.
Her most recent example of Ellie’s bad behavior stems from a couple of months ago when she visited the couple.
Ellie spoke to Peter in an alarming and worrisome way. Ellie and Peter then got into some kind of argument in front of her, and she was shocked by how rude and cold Ellie was to Peter.
“I never even spoke that way to my ex-husband, even when I hated him!” she exclaimed. “Ellie gave Peter the cold shoulder for an entire day and refused to join us on any of the activities we had planned.”
“I got the invitation to their wedding a few days ago and just felt sick to my stomach. After thinking on it for a few days, I felt like I would be doing Peter a huge disservice if I didn’t speak up about my concerns. I just don’t see how he can actually be happy in this relationship.”
“He did not take it well, and we ended up having a huge fight. He told me that me and Ellie’s relationship is one of the biggest stressors in his life, and that Ellie has been a rock for him through some tough times over the last few years. He also berated me for never giving her a chance, even though I feel like I’ve done a lot. Now he’s not taking my calls, and it looks like Ellie has blocked me, so I’m sure he told her what I said. I just want my son to be with someone who deserves him.”
She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to tell Peter to call off his wedding.
What do you think?
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