Her Sister’s Husband Forces Her To Be Skinny, And She Finally Said Something About It In Front Of Their Family
When this woman was growing up, her little sister was either of average weight or on the chubby side. A couple of years ago, her sister tied the knot and then dropped an alarming amount of weight.
She and her family members didn’t see her sister in the months that followed the wedding, so when they finally saw how ridiculously skinny she became, they were alarmed.
She thought her sister had some kind of an eating disorder; that’s how drastic her weight loss was.
“My parents even asked her if she was unwell, and her husband was the one who brushed us all off and made a comment about how beautiful she looks,” she explained.
“Over the years, it’s become very obvious that her skinny body is her husband’s choice. She barely eats these days when, before, her appetite rivaled the men in the family.”
“I’ve noticed she eats less when her husband is here, which is directly because he shoots everyone down when we try to express any concern for her, even if it’s subtle.”
Yesterday, her cousin was fawning over her sister’s weight loss and raving about how amazing she is.
Her cousin complained about not having the same kind of devotion to losing weight. Her sister was pretty quiet as her cousin was talking, but her brother’s wife and the rest of her cousins were eager to agree.
They also were rolling out the flattery, but she found it worrisome that they were “romanticizing” her sister’s weight, as they were in the company of some family members who were in their young teens.
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She knows how harmful and dangerous it is for young girls to hear things about being super thin, so she piped up.
“…I warned them being that skinny wasn’t healthy, and the only reason my sister was that skinny [was] because she had to because of her husband,” she added.
“The cousin who originally brought up the topic joked that she would do it too if she had my sister’s life and then changed the subject, so I thought that was the end of that. However, my sister confronted me when we were alone and yelled at me for making her husband seem like some toxic, controlling misogynist.”
“She accused me of being jealous and having no idea what I was talking about. My sister isn’t a confrontational person, and it was completely out of character for her to react that way, so I apologized even though I stand by what I said.”
She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to point out that her sister’s husband is the one forcing her to be skinny since her sister will not forgive her.
What do you think?
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