She Savagely Clapped Back At Her Sister-In-Law For Saying Her Husband Will Leave Her Now That She’s Sick
Everyone has a breaking point, and she finally hit hers. For weeks, she listened to her sister-in-law drop passive-aggressive comments about how men can’t wait to leave when their wives get sick, even as her own husband showed up for her every single day without complaint.
She let it go until she couldn’t. One jab too many, and she fired back with something deeply personal. Now her family wants an apology, but she’s still stuck on a different question.
Why is it always the person being attacked who’s expected to apologize when they finally defend themselves?
For more than two months now, this woman has been battling some medical problems. She is sick, by all means, and her husband is her caregiver.
Her husband gets up at 5 every morning and cleans their house, makes breakfast and lunch, and then heads off to work.
When her husband arrives back home, he cooks them dinner, does more housework, goes to sleep, and gets up the next morning and does it all over again without complaining.
Her husband is the breadwinner in their house, and he does all of their yardwork, so he has a lot on his plate on top of caring for her.
“My sister-in-law (brother’s wife) kept talking about how men leave their wives when they get sick. She’d comment things like ‘Have you noticed any changes in his behavior?’ or ‘When was the last time you searched his phone?’ basically implying that my husband is one of those men, even though she knows and she saw how much effort he makes to help out and support me,” she explained.
“She’d even bring up statistics. She did it once in front of my husband, to which he responded with silence, but she kept staring at him as if she was waiting for him to ‘react.’ I told her that this made me and my husband uncomfortable and that she needed to stop.”
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Earlier this week, her husband got stuck at work late, and she isn’t able to cook dinner due to her medical problems.
Her brother and her sister-in-law had stopped by to visit, so she bought takeout for all of them to enjoy. As they were having dinner, her sister-in-law kept making nasty comments about how her husband must be getting exhausted from caring for her.
She finally couldn’t handle her rudeness and clapped back, but only after her sister-in-law once again dragged up the statistics behind men who leave their ailing wives.
“I snapped and told her that since she was at it, then she should check the statistics of men who leave their wives for not being able to get pregnant,” she continued.
“She went pale, and my brother blew up at me, asking what was wrong with me. She began crying, then went outside. My brother started a huge argument, saying I was a monster for saying such a terrible thing to someone who cannot have children.”
“He even had my husband leave work and come home. I couldn’t argue much because I felt nauseous. They left eventually and got the rest of the family involved. My brother, SIL, and her mother want an apology. My mom and my husband said I shouldn’t have escalated the situation. I understand that infertility is hard on her, but I feel like she was being deliberately hurtful to me.”
Do you think she was wrong for that savage clapback?
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