Marriage is a beautiful journey. A marriage works beautifully when both husband and wife understand, respect and prioritize each other. Read the story to know why the wife gets upset with her husband and let us know if you agree with her reaction or do you think she overreacted?
Source: Reddit
I (f27) found out I was pregnant very recently, My husband (m34) and his family are beyond happy and excited. from what I heard my husband was married 2 times before but couldn’t have kids for 10 years. This is obviously a huge deal for his family because his mom will be a first time grandma with this baby.
They threw a celebration dinner for us and as his mom and I were talking about the baby. She told me about how she already started “making memories” and started having “keepsakes” of her grandbaby. I felt a bit confused and asked if my husband bought something for the baby and gave it to her.
She said no but he did bring her my used pregnancy test and gave it to her to store as a “memory” of the news of her grandbaby’s existence. I was floored. I looked at my husband like “did you really do that?” and he nodded while smiling. NGL I felt creeped out, disgusted and very uncomfortable.
After the initial shock I just went off on both of them calling what they did creepy and disgusting and highly violating. My husband argued that it was not a huge deal, he just grabbed the test once I got rid of it, put it in a plastic bag and “gifted” it to his mom as “keepsake”. I told him it made me feel violated and creeped out because that test had my literal pee on it. His mom then said something about “taking care” of the smell and I lashed out even more and demanded they get rid of it but they kept arguing, calling me controlling.
BIL asked me to calm down but I decided to just grab stuff and go home. My husband started arguing about how this is all just an overreaction and said that I ruined his and his family’s joy by how I behaved after finding out about the pregnancy test. He said for him and his mom it’s all about the baby but I somehow made this whole thing about me and hurt their feelings in the process. But that was my literal pee on that test and I just couldn’t help but flip out even if it ruined their joy for the news. Did I overreact?
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