This is not my story. This was told to me by a woman I knew from work several years ago; she’s a very sweet nurse.
Nurse graduated from nursing school and decided with her friend to
move to one of the cities that was listed as having “the most eligible
bachelors” from some publication. She moves and starts dating her future
husband.
Future Husband’s mother is a viper and decides Nurse is not good
enough for her family. The happy couple eventually get engaged and
future mother-in-law is having none of it. Tries for several months to
break them up; tries to convince Nurse to go back where she came from
and simultaneously tries to gently convince her precious son that Nurse
may not be good for him.
To add some more context to this situation, this MIL is pretty nasty
to Nurse but hides it well to other people, always making sure she’s
super (fake) sweet to everyone when others are around.
Finally wedding plans are set so MIL gets desperate. She gets Nurse
alone with a “generous” offer: leave fiance and never come back in
exchange for $10,000 (note: this was almost 30 years ago so I guess it
was kind of a shitload of money for most).
Nurse is so sick of this woman’s shit and is incredibly insulted.
However, she’s intelligent and maintains her composure. Nurse accepts
the offer.
Nurse takes the money, does not leave, and gets married anyway. Nobody else knows about this.
MIL cannot say or do anything about it without exposing herself to her family as a horrible person.
Nurse and husband are still happily married; their kids are grown; husband still has no idea this went down.
MIL has suffered silently for almost 30 years.
I reblog this every time I see it, because it’s a Machiavellian power move AND I LOVE IT!
This woman behind me at the doctor’s office has now said at least five times that her 9-month-old baby is “a flirt” and how he “flirts with all the ladies”.
Yes, this babbling infant who is currently being amused by car keys and mouth smacking noises is a master at romance and is certainly not just cooing at anyone who comes into his still-limited visual range because that is literally the only thing he knows how to do.
the thing that makes me the angriest about this bullshit
and it is bullshit, just the most patented, reeking bullshit imaginable
is that the justification i always hear when people are called out on this jackassery is that ‘well, he gets so much more excited to see ladies than men’ and it’s like – do you really not
are you really so fucking stupid that you don’t realize the reason for that? that women are allowed, it’s socially acceptable for strange women to fawn over other people’s babies. it’s practically expected. Of course your infant responds more often to the attention of strange women – because that’s the attention he is used to getting, you absolute waffle.
like, men getting all excited and curious about strange babies tends to be seen as suspect, because we as a species have fucking failed at developing as society. Your baby doesn’t respond as often to men because he’s not exposed to them as often or in the same way.
stop sexualizing your fucking infants you absolute knobs.
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