She Let Her Ex-Boyfriend’s Mom Into Her Book Club, And It Started A Ton Of Drama Because Her Ex’s Fiancée Now Feels Dumb

Have you ever been in a serious relationship with someone, became really close with their parents, and didn’t know whether or not you should stay in touch with them after you broke up?
One woman recently upset her ex-boyfriend after she invited his mom to join her book club.
She’s 28 and dated her ex-boyfriend, Jim, for about a year. Although she and Jim don’t speak much anymore, she stays in touch with his parents, especially his mom, Amy.
For a little while now, she’s been running a small book club for herself and a few friends.
“We gather in my home library and talk about books on witches or historical fiction,” she explained.
“We also talked about gardening and old folk tales, and I consider it a very fulfilling hobby. Amy asked me last month if she could join my book club. I said yes, and I didn’t think Jim would mind; it wasn’t his business. Amy then joined one session and gushed about it to her husband, who mentioned it to Jim.”
This is where she started having some issues.
Jim is currently engaged to a 30-year-old woman named Beatrice, a woman he had begun talking to towards the end of their relationship. Jim’s parents don’t like Beatrice nearly as much as they like her, so when Amy joined her book club, she started talking about her non-stop.
Jim called her and told her about how, at a recent family dinner, his mom kept interrupting Beatrice and talking about the book club and how well she was doing.

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“Amy had been talking about what books the book club had recommended, and I guess Jim’s dad had commented on how he wished he had a daughter to talk to about books, and that had hurt Beatrice,” she said.
“I later asked Amy not to talk about anything book club-related outside [of the meetings], even though it felt awkward and childish. I thought that would be it.”
Unfortunately, the drama continued as Beatrice later made shady Facebook posts about the book club, which Jim told her Beatrice and his mom fought over.
Since all of this has gone down, Jim has implied that her allowing his mom to be in her book club has caused the drama between her and his fiancée, which she disagrees with.
Should she not have allowed her ex’s mom to join her book club?
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