Man Kicks Mom Out for 'Praying' Wife's Unborn Child Is 'Healthy' After Prior Stillbirth. Now She Wants an Apology

A man is turning to Reddit for support aft a tense family meal ended pinch him asking his ain mother to time off his location pursuing a bid of comments she made astir his wife’s pregnancy. 

The 37-year-old begetter and husband, who has been joined for 12 years, began his post by sharing that he and his woman are nan parents of a 10-year-old autistic son. In summation to his son, nan mates knowledgeable a stillbirth astir 3 years ago. 

“My woman has terrible worry astir this gestation now arsenic good on pinch nightmares and I’ve conscionable been trying to do my champion for her,” he wrote, describing nan affectional toll that a erstwhile stillbirth and nan existent gestation person taken connected his family. 

His wife, now 21 weeks pregnant, is seeing a therapist to thief negociate her worry arsenic nan mates hopes for nan champion outcome.

The family’s caller meal pinch his parents was meant to beryllium a clip of togetherness, but quickly took a move erstwhile his mother began making pointed remarks astir their son’s autism and nan caller baby’s health. 

“My mom began talking [about] really hopefully this one’s calved patient mentally and physically implying our son’s autism,” he recalled. The poster instantly unopen down nan conversation.

“I instantly unopen her down and said that’s not moreover connected our minds, she made a remark saying it should be, and my begetter told her to stop.”

Even aft his begetter intervened and asked her to stop, she resumed nan speech later, questioning whether his woman was considered high-risk owed to her property and referencing nan erstwhile loss.

The last straw came erstwhile his mother said, “she’ll beryllium praying for america because it’s much apt to hap if it’s happened earlier and my wife’s property plays a facet now arsenic well.” 

At that point, he decided to extremity nan evening. “I past said okay I deliberation it’s clip for you to leave,” he shared, describing really his mother became upset and insisted her comments were kind.

A heated statement followed, but yet his mother left, pinch his begetter apologizing connected her behalf. The fallout didn’t extremity there. “She sewage upset and said what she said was kind, and I said I already told you not to bring it up,” he shared. “We sewage into a immense statement but she did extremity up leaving, my begetter apologized connected her behalf.”

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The altercation didn’t extremity there. “Later that nighttime my mom started texting maine calling maine an ah [a------] and said she couldn’t judge I would footwear her retired of my location for saying she’d believe for me, and really severely I collapsed her bosom tonight,” he wrote. 

He concluded his communicative saying that nan adjacent day, his mother continued to scope out, telling him she's “still waiting for an apology.” Now, nan man is caught betwixt mounting boundaries and shielding his woman from further stress.