Her Sister-In-Law Called Her Ungrateful For Getting Upset About The Size Of Her Gender Reveal Party, Even Though Her Only Request Was That The Celebration Be Kept Small
This 30-year-old woman and her husband, who is 32, tried to start a family together for eight years. Now, after three failed rounds of IVF, two pregnancy losses, and countless doctor’s appointments, they are finally expecting a “rainbow baby.”
“We are so grateful yet cautiously optimistic,” she said.
She and her in-laws have always been very close, too, and she views them as a second family. This is especially true for her 35-year-old sister-in-law, who was there for both her and her husband throughout all of their struggles in starting a family.
So, after they officially got pregnant, her sister-in-law really wanted to celebrate. That’s why her sister-in-law begged to throw her and her husband a gender reveal party.
They agreed, but they had one condition – they wanted the celebration to be small with just immediate family present. They also made sure to tell her sister-in-law that several times.
“We weren’t ready to announce our news to anyone just yet because I suffer from anxiety and PTSD from our previous losses,” she explained.
Well, on the day of the gender reveal party, she realized that her sister-in-law had completely disregarded their request. Instead of the celebration just including family, her sister-in-law went ahead and invited her friends, friends of her in-laws, and even her own husband’s family.
This devastated her, but she tried to hold herself together until after the party was over. She didn’t want to cause a scene and wound up crying after the celebration was done.
“I felt like I couldn’t even enjoy my own gender reveal,” she admitted.
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Her husband didn’t like how upset the situation made her, either, and decided that they needed to confront her sister-in-law about it.
Yet, when they called her out on going overboard with the gender reveal party, her sister-in-law accused them of being both unfair and ungrateful.
Her sister-in-law claimed to have put a lot of effort and thought into the party and simply wanted them to feel celebrated after struggling for so many years. In her sister-in-law’s mind, the more people attended, the merrier.
“I told her we are grateful; it’s just that we had only one request that she completely disregarded and that she has to understand how this could have upset us,” she vented.
Still, her sister-in-law just didn’t get it and thought she and her husband were being “too much.” She even called them rude for “coming at her” rather than thanking her for the party.
So, in the wake of all this drama, she can’t help but wonder if getting upset about the size of her gender reveal party really was “ungrateful” or not.
Can you understand why she didn’t want to share the news of her pregnancy with so many people? How would you have felt in her shoes walking into the big gender reveal party that day?
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