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- A woman who recently announced her pregnancy to her in-laws says their response has led her to consider cutting contact with them
- In a post on Reddit, she writes that her mother-in-law and father-in-law were more worried about whether or not they could go on an upcoming vacation
- Her husband’s siblings, meanwhile, simply didn’t believe the news
A woman says she’s thinking of cutting contact with her in-laws after their inappropriate response to her pregnancy news.
In a post shared to Reddit, she writes that she is now 14 weeks pregnant and has spent the past couple of weeks letting her in-laws know.
“Now in these past couple weeks we’ve had some terrible reactions from my in laws. My mother-in-law and father-in-law were immediately excited for really just themselves, then said ‘oh darn now we can’t go on our vacation,’ and then told us how to tell the siblings because we were going to cause a fight if we did it wrong,” she writes.
She continues: “Also, they kept mentioning when they could babysit when they had ALWAYS said before I was pregnant ‘we will never babysit so don’t ask.’ Then, the extended family made me swear on my husband’s life that I truly was pregnant, said they didn’t believe us, got mad that we didn’t make a big spectacle of the announcement, and kept mentioning how cool it would be if other family members were pregnant instead.”
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But “worst of all,” she writes, her sister-in-law and brother-in-law “didn’t believe” the news.
“When they finally started to believe it, it was all fake reactions, no apologies and excuses on why they’d react that way,” she writes. “At this point, I truly do not want to speak to any of them. We’ve experienced more joy for our news from strangers than people we spend countless hours with.”
Now, she’s asking the internet if she should just cut her in-laws off entirely.
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While other Reddit users are sympathetic to the poster, many are warning that going no contact will be very difficult — particularly when a baby enters the picture
Writes one: “As a practical matter it will be extremely difficult to unilaterally cut them off. It will be challenging for your relationship with your husband. The two of you need to get on the same page with this.”