A woman ignited a viral conversation after she shared that after last year’s disastrous Thanksgiving dinner — one where her in-laws and in-laws took home all the leftovers for themselves — she decided she wouldn’t be hosting this year.
In a post shared on Reddit, the 30-year-old anonymous woman writes that she and her husband hosted his parents for Thanksgiving last year. In her opinion, it didn’t go well.
“It was a disaster,” she writes.
She adds that, as a nurse who works nights, she “was exhausted” and “was late making dinner,” so her husband’s grandparents went to get fast food.
Her husband’s mother, meanwhile, “was supposed to bring three sides, but ended up bringing one frozen meatloaf about six inches long to feed 9 people.”
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“Basically, she didn’t bring anything to share,” the woman added in the post.
At the end of the meal, the woman says her husband’s family “packed up all our food and took it with them.”
“We had the impression that they were putting our food in the refrigerator [because] that’s what they said they were doing,” she adds. “We had absolutely no leftovers.”
Since then, the woman writes that she has worked hard to cultivate a stronger relationship with her mother-in-law, even bringing her food after her own mother died and buying her a dress to wear at her funeral. However, her mother-in-law is still “repulsive”.
“I don’t know why, I ran to take care of her,” adds the woman.
Recently, my mother-in-law called to ask about this year’s Thanksgiving dinner — and the woman told her she wouldn’t be hosting.
“I told her I don’t cook. I was tired, I work a lot (50 hours a week) and I don’t appreciate people taking food from my kitchen that they haven’t cooked,” she writes. “Immediately she started crying and telling me that she lost her best friend, it’s the first holidays without mom, she’s sad, she’s lonely. I told her bad luck. I’m tired of being taken for granted.”
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Commenters chimed in, with one Reddit user suggesting that the woman’s husband “volunteer to cook and host…. Or keep quiet… preferably at her house… so she can deal with the mess and you just have to pack the leftovers to go home.”
Another chimed in: “This is the husband’s problem. How dare he stay away from it his mother? How dare he expect your cook? I don’t think it should be banned him from hosting, but he needs to understand that of course you’re not the one who will be cooking and cleaning for his event.”
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