Woman Snaps at Mother-in-Law Over 'Snide' Remarks About Her Remote Work. But Her Husband Says She Was Too 'Mean'

A female yet had capable of her mother-in-law's disrespect, snapping backmost astatine nan female pursuing a caller rude comment.

In a station published to Reddit, nan anonymous 28-year-old writes that she useful from location arsenic a package developer.

Her mother-in-law, she adds, "has ne'er understood aliases respected that."

"Every clip she visits, she makes snide remarks like, 'Oh, must beryllium bully to beryllium successful pajamas each day,' aliases 'Back successful my day, we really had to commute to work,' " she writes successful nan post.

The business reached a fever transportation astatine a caller dinner.

"During dinner, personification asked what I do, and earlier I could answer, MIL chuckled and said, 'Oh, she watches Netflix and calls it coding,' " she writes. "Without skipping a beat, I smiled and said, 'Yeah, and that ‘Netflix’ paid disconnected your son’s student loans and bought this house.' "

"Everyone laughed. MIL sewage really quiet," she continues. "After they left, my hubby said I was being unnecessarily mean and should’ve conscionable fto it slide."

Now, nan female wants to cognize if she was successful nan incorrect for snapping back.

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However, galore chap Reddit users focused little connected nan 2 women and much connected nan husband.

"Well possibly if he wants to debar being humiliated successful nan early he should make judge he puts a muzzle connected his mother truthful these unfortunate things don't hap immoderate more," 1 personification wrote.

Added different commenter: "So galore men can't grip moreover nan astir insignificant insinuation that their spouse mightiness beryllium nan breadwinner."

"He astir apt enjoyed nan thought that group would deliberation he'd paid it disconnected himself, paid for nan location himself, aliases astatine slightest contributed nan mostly of it," personification other chimed in. "Now it's successful nan unfastened that not only is his mum horrible, he's besides not 'the breadwinner' aliases whatever. Rather nan wife, he's fto beryllium humiliated for years, is nan 1 who gave him everything."