She’s Furious With Her Mother-In-Law For Throwing A Tantrum At Her Wedding And Missing The Whole Reception

Do you know any grudge-holders? When you’re close to people who have difficulty letting go of grudges, you often feel like you have to walk on eggshells whenever you’re around them.
One woman is in a bad place with her grudge-holding mother-in-law, who skipped her entire wedding reception after not liking a comment someone made about her during family photos.
She’s 26 and got married this month. She’s been with her husband for eight years, and during that time, she got to know his family quite well. One of the more notable members of her new family is her mother-in-law, Jolene.
“She has always been a flighty, self-absorbed, irresponsible person [and] she’s the type that will be sweet and polite to your face, but she holds a lot of grudges over very small things,” she explained.
“If you ever do something to offend her, she’ll never forgive you for it. I’m almost certain that she has some sort of developmental or personality disorder, but I’m not a shrink, so it’s just an educated guess.”
“One of the ways her narcissistic tendencies materialize is through Facebook. She is absolutely obsessed with Facebook. She can’t go anywhere or do anything without posting about it.”
While being obsessed with Facebook may not be that big of a deal, Jolene takes her interactions with people on Facebook very seriously. For instance, she doesn’t like her maternal grandmother, Rose, because she doesn’t “like” her posts enough.
On her wedding day, the ceremony went beautifully, but things went downhill when it was time to take pictures.
“When my husband and I were standing with his parents for pictures, Rose called out in jest, ‘Jolene, quit hiding behind [the groom]! You’re beautiful,'” she recalled.

Wedding photography – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual people
“I didn’t know it then, but this comment set Jolene off. I heard her mutter a few incomprehensible things while we stood together, so I knew she wasn’t happy about the comment, but I didn’t know the full extent.”
Later, when more pictures were taken, and it was time for dinner during their reception, she and her husband noticed that Jolene was nowhere to be found. This was worrisome, as they figured she wouldn’t want to miss the reception, never less the upcoming mother-son dance.
At one point, her grandmother approached her and her husband and asked where Jolene was since she hadn’t seen her, and wanted to apologize for upsetting her during the pictures. Still, no one could find her.
Finally, her husband found out that Jolene was so ticked off by that one comment that she threw a tantrum and left the venue to sit in a car until her other son could drive her home.
She still hasn’t heard from Jolene since the wedding, which deeply hurt her and her husband. After trying to tag her in some wedding photos on Facebook, she noticed Jolene had her blocked.
“I’m so furious that she took her second son’s only wedding and made it all about her and didn’t even consider his feelings or how much it might hurt him,” she admitted.
“She missed a once-in-a-lifetime milestone for him, all because of her vapid, conceited social media presence. Because of this, I’m just considering going no-contact with her myself, even if my husband does still want a relationship with her. Right now, I’m planning on doing only the bare minimum with her if he ends up wanting it [by] going to Christmas, being civil, but not engaging in any conversation or texting her outside of visits or anything like that.”
Should she try to fix her relationship with her mother-in-law or wait for her to come to her senses?
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