'She CHOSE that!' Woman throws son's 'perfect' girlfriend out of her home over a 'joke'
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: A worried woman has posted her concern on Reddit’s 'AITA' forum after she felt guilty for not accepting her son’s girlfriend and her bizarre “joke." The woman, who handle is u/throwaway__467, wrote, “My husband (58 M) and I (56 F) recently met my son’s (24 M) girlfriend for the first time. He’s been crazy about her. Apparently, they’ve been dating for a year before he decided to have her meet us officially,” under the title, 'AITA for kicking my son’s girlfriend out of our house?'
The woman said, “What he’s told us about her all seems great: she just got her degree, was enjoying her job, family-oriented, etc., I’m honestly just glad he’s happy with her. My husband and I don’t think he’s ever been this into someone before, so I feel pretty bad about what I did. Last weekend, he brought her over for dinner. By now we’d been anticipating meeting her with how much our son has been gushing about her. How perfect she is, that she’s ‘the one’, in his words.”
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‘My son is grinning ear to ear’
The woman described what happened as her son’s girlfriend arrived. She wrote, “They ring the doorbell. We open the door. She looks exactly like her pictures, which is a great start. My son is grinning ear to ear - another great start. We invite them in. She accepts my hug and a firm handshake from my husband, and then she opens her mouth: ‘I’m the one your son puts his penis in.’”
“To be frank, I was appalled. I expected my husband to laugh (both he and my son are jokesters, and as annoying as it can be I love it) but THIS was just too much for me. Maybe I’m reserved, but of all things, she could have shared about my son she told us THAT. One look at my face and my husband knew how much I disapproved,” she remarked.
‘I was too disturbed by the visuals it put in my head’
Explaining what happened after that awkward greeting, the woman wrote, “Maybe I let my expectations get too high, and it’s unfair to have them, but I reiterate: of all things to say to her boyfriend’s parents - whom she’d never met - she chose THAT? My son was amused at first but when he noticed my reaction his face dropped. I felt like he’d sold me the full package, everything he’d always been looking for in a girlfriend. I was too disturbed by the visuals it put in my head, and it translated into anger. I told her to get out, and I wanted to say more about how gross it made me feel but, fortunately, left it at that.”
She stated, “My son didn’t want to go, insisting I give her another chance, but I was too fed up and uncomfortable by this point. Even my husband, who’s enjoyed his fair share of raunchy jokes, wouldn’t let up. They left and I immediately felt guilty,” adding, “My husband thinks she’s the one who should apologize. I’m considering giving her another chance, but before I do, was I the AH?”
‘This just doesn’t sit right’
In the comments section, people understood her discomfort and also her husband’s point of view as well as a user wrote, “Seriously. I’m married with a kid, my in-laws obviously know that I’ve had sex with their daughter. The number of times I’ve mentioned our sex life to them is zero. Because just WTF, who does that shit?”
Another user commented, “I'm all for using humor to break the ice, but that joke sunk like the Titanic against an iceberg. I gotta give OP credit for trying to be so gracious about it now that the initial shock has worn off.” The third user posted, “My bf and his family are extremely liberal and the most lovely tolerant people I’ve ever met. I think they’d be uncomfortable and disapprove of me if I said that as my opening line.”
“NTA. This just doesn’t sit right. You said your son was all big smiles and amusement when they arrived and up until he son realized you weren’t all that impressed. You also said he jokes around like that with his dad… What are the chances it was your sons idea all along and she just (regretfully) went along with it? Because if that’s the case, you probably can’t get ahold of him because he’s doing damage control with his girlfriend who’s now mortified and angry that his super funny joke gave you the worst impression of her that she could imagine,” a comment read.
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