Chip Chick
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.
