Her Mother-In-Law Commented On Her Baby Weight And Insinuated Her Husband Only Pursued Her Because Of Her Figure, So She Kicked Her Mother-In-Law Out
One of the last things most new moms, especially those who experienced difficult labor, want to think about is hitting the gym and doing a bunch of exercises to get their bodies back to where they started.
This is why losing baby weight shouldn’t be high on your list of conversation priorities when you see a new mom.
A woman is appalled at her mother-in-law, who began pressuring her to lose her baby weight only about a month after delivering her son via c-section.
She’s 27 and has been with her 28-year-old husband since college. They’ve been married for four years, and just three and a half weeks ago, they welcomed their first child, a baby boy.
It was a difficult birth, as in the middle of everything, there were some complications, and she had to get an emergency c-section. It was a scary moment, but she and her baby were fine in the end.
“Recovery has been very hard and painful, especially because I felt very unprepared, not having expected to have a c-section,” she explained.
“However, my husband has been amazing during this process, and my mother-in-law often comes to help, too.”
She is very close with her mother-in-law, especially because she’s known her for so long and also because her own mom passed away during her senior year of high school.
Her mother-in-law stepped in as a mother figure when she needed one most, and she often thinks about how glad her mom would be that she found someone like that.
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Things usually go really well between her and her mother-in-law, but they got into an argument during a more recent visit, as her mother-in-law surprised her with some harsh comments.
She was feeding her son while her mother-in-law sat across from her, and her husband was on a work call. They were chatting about everyday things until she stood up, and her shirt rode up, exposing some of her stretch marks and recovering belly.
“My mother-in-law asked, ‘Oh wow, did you get some stretch marks?'” she recalled.
“This didn’t bother me because I had emphasized how much I was trying to avoid them, and we talked about it a few times. I was like, ‘Oh yeah, they popped up at the end,” and I pulled down the band of my leggings to show her.”
When her mother-in-law got a better look at her body, including her c-section scar, she concerningly asked her if she had been doing her “exercises.”
She tried laughing off the question and lightly telling her mother-in-law that what she said was rude, but her mother-in-law was serious. She told her she wasn’t trying to be rude but wanted her to be healthy.
Making matters worse, her mother-in-law then said she had an “amazing figure” before giving birth and that she didn’t want her to lose it.
Trying to be stern, she told her mother-in-law she wasn’t worried about that at the moment, and her mother-in-law gave her a weird look, wondering if she was sure about that.
“She then goes on to basically insinuate that my husband, her son, originally only pursued me because of my figure and that I needed to get back to it,” she recalled.
“I was so offended and couldn’t help the tears that welled up in my eyes.”
She was appalled that her mother-in-law would say those things to her and eventually told her to leave, as she didn’t want to have a crying breakdown in front of her.
Her mother-in-law stormed out, and when her husband heard about what happened, he apologized profusely for his mom’s behavior and reassured her that he was not only attracted to her for her body.
Thankfully, he made her feel a lot better, especially after telling her she was healing and healthy, which was all that mattered.
Her mother-in-law hasn’t spoken to her since and is waiting for an apology.
Should she apologize to her mother-in-law, or should it be the other way around?
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