This Reddit user had to learn the hard way that her husband would always choose his mother over his spouse and child. The husband went against an agreement he made with his wife to cut his mother out of their lives for something despicable she did to their baby girl.Taking to Reddit on the night before Valentine\u2019s Day, 2024, a 31-year-old married woman noted how her husband informed her he\u2019d go to work on the special day. The original poster\u2019s (OP) husband apologized, explaining his boss called him in for an extra shift due to being short-staffed.The Reddit user explained that she was bothered but took it in her stride because she and her husband never did anything extravagant on the day,\n
except watch movies and cuddle. However, that year it was different because they had a six-month-old daughter, but she still let it go.OP revealed her husband had been working for the same company for nine years, with his schedule and lunch break remaining from 10 a.m. until eight at night ever since. The Reddit user shared that her car was in the shop and wasn\u2019t due for completion until February 16th, but the mechanic finished early and called her at around 11 a.m. to fetch it.Since the shop wasn\u2019t far, OP walked to it with her infant daughter before driving to a gas station that has a small restaurant inside.\n
To her surprise, she saw her husband\u2019s truck outside, who worked 45 minutes away from the establishment in the opposite direction.OP noted it couldn\u2019t have been his lunch break because of his standard and unchanging schedule. She went inside and saw him sitting with his mother, which left OP shocked because she and her husband had decided to go \u201cno contact\u201d with her mother-in-law (MIL) a month before.The decision was made after the grandmother slapped her infant granddaughter in the face, leaving a red mark because the baby bit down on the woman\u2019s arm while teething. OP walked up to their table and asked her husband how work was,and he got up and replied:\u201dI\u2019m sorry, I just wanted to have lunch with my mom for Valentine\u2019s Day.\u201dThe Redditor asked her spouse if he wished to have lunch with the \u201cwitch\u201d who slapped their infant daughter across her face. She told him to go ahead and enjoy his lunch but not to return home as he could stay with his \u201cmommy.\u201dThe mother of one\u2019s husband later texted her, complaining that the two couples who were sitting close by started giving him and his mother ugly looks. He even revealed that one of them gasped, saying \u201cOh my God,\u201d while his mother gave OP dirty looks.\n
When she left the restaurant, her husband followed her to her car and stated, \u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019m allowing her around our daughter.\u201d He claimed he shouldn\u2019t have to lie about having lunch with his mother and felt the whole thing was \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u201dSo, he lies to you. Both about work and seeing his mother.\u201dOP\u2019s husband then called her out for embarrassing him in front of the whole restaurant. She replied, telling him that he should be more embarrassed by hanging out with a child abuser before getting into her car and leaving.Going into their joint bank account, she froze it after seeing that a $400 purchase had gone off from her MIL\u2019s favorite antique shop, meaning OP\u2019s husband had bought her a gift.\n
The mother of one turned the account off because she felt more than half of the money was hers as she also worked full-time, earning $9 more per hour than her husband.Livid, OP called her friend, wanting to hang out as she was frustrated by how her husband agreed to go no contact with her MIL but then lied to ditch her and their daughter on Valentine\u2019s Day. However, the woman\u2019s friend told her she was being overdramatic and should\u2019ve left the restaurant and confronted him alone and in private.In an edit, OP explained that she ended up leaving with her baby when her MIL assaulted the child. The older woman allegedly picked a fight with OP when she and her husband told the older woman to leave, so the mother of one exited instead.Ironically, her husband told her he called the police, who took a statement. According to him, the police later said it was a \u201cword of mouth\u201d case and they weren\u2019t going to pursue it.\n
But now, OP had doubts about him ever calling the police.One Reddit user replied to OP\u2019s story saying, \u201cThis is more than just \u2018lunch\u2019 with his mom. He had to fill the hours between 9 am (leaving home for the 45 min drive to work) and 9 pm (including the 45 min drive home) somehow. So he is continuing to lie to you. NTA. Why would he think he deserves \u2018consideration\u2019?\u201d\u201dSo, he lies to you. Both about work and seeing his mother. Then he takes her out for Valentine\u2019s Day and buys her an expensive present after she abused your child? Update me when you kick him out,\u201d said another reader.\u201cNTA first of all it is Valentine\u2019s Day not Mother\u2019s Day & is completely inappropriate to ditch your wife for your mother. Secondly (sic) go open an account only in your name for your paycheck & meet with a lawyer,\u201d suggested a Reddit user.Wow. This story had some twists and turns in it. Originally I was thinking you sounded a little passive aggressive about Valentines Day (sic), but when I started reading the second paragraph I understood the real issue. Your husband lied to your face.\n
Not only that, he lied to your face on Valentine\u2019s Day which may be the dumbest thing you could do as a husband. I think freezing the bank account may have been a little much, but $400 is no joke so I guess I can understand. You\u2019re obviously not the [expletive]. Ya\u2019ll need couples therapy,\u201d commented another person.The consensus was that OP wasn\u2019t the wrong party for reacting badly to her husband lying to her and meeting his mother behind her back. Some people even thought these were grounds for divorce!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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