She Faked Going Into Labor Because She Was Worried Her Mother-In-Law Would Try To Keep Her Husband From The Delivery Room, And Sure Enough, Her Mother-In-Law Lied About Having A Heart Attack “From Excitement”
I’ve heard many stories of overbearing mothers-in-law who make their sons’ wives’ lives very difficult with their intrusiveness and lack of boundaries.
One woman recently decided to test how far her attention-seeking mother-in-law and oblivious husband, and it’s one of the wildest stories I’ve heard in a while.
She and her husband are 25 and expecting their first baby any day now. While she loves her husband, she’s been bothered by his strange and unhealthy relationship with his mother, as it’s gotten worse since they got married.
Her husband’s mom is extremely possessive of him and has become overly involved in their relationship. Her mother-in-law demands to see her son daily and has crossed boundaries several times.
For instance, she said she wanted to move in with them once the baby is born, and whenever they want to go out for a special occasion like their anniversary or date night, her mother-in-law calls with an “emergency,” so her husband rushes to her side.
She has been very nervous about giving birth and wants nothing more than for her husband to drive her to the hospital the moment she goes into labor and stays by her side during the delivery. However, due to her mother-in-law’s previous behavior, she worries that won’t happen.
“As the date is approaching, I’ve become increasingly worried that his mother will have an ’emergency’ during birth, and I will have trouble getting to the hospital or will be forced to be alone,” she said.
“I voiced my concerns, and it caused fights between me and them. I even suggested asking my best friend to drive and keep me company, but [that idea] was shot down with them asking, How can’t you trust your own husband?'”
So, to put her husband’s loyalty and his mom’s delusion to the test, a few days ago, she pretended to go into labor. After calling her husband and giving him the news, he said he’d head right to her from work.
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An hour later, after waiting around, she got another call from her husband, who said he had to rush to his mom’s instead.
He said when he called his mom to share the baby news, she went into cardiac arrest because she was so excited.
“He said he would have to miss my birth and actually asked me to call my friend to drive and stay with me,” she recalled.
“I was very angry and heartbroken, so I told him I wasn’t actually giving birth, that it was a test that showed me how he would actually behave.”
“[I said] that it proved he would always care for his mother more than his wife, who was carrying his child. He was very angry and even blamed me for his mother’s ‘heart attack’ in that moment.”
As she predicted, she and her husband later found out that his mom didn’t have a heart attack, and the doctors declared it a false alarm.
Since this incident, things have been extremely uncomfortable between her, her husband, and his mom. She isn’t sure what to do, especially because she’s only days away from giving birth.
Should she hold out for her husband or make sure her best friend is there to help her have the baby?
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