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Beginner November 2022

Future mother in law drama

Chloe, on October 23, 2021 at 4:25 AM Posted in Family and Relationships 0 8
Hi everyone!
So my fiancé and I just started wedding planning a week ago. We started looking at venues first and already found one we love. We live in Hawaii but are planning on moving back to Virginia soon and having our wedding there. Because we aren’t able to tour venues in person, my sister offered to go see this one venue for us with my mom. My mom and I were talking and thought it would be a nice idea to invite my fiancé’s mother to join them on the tour.
A little back story: my fiancé and I moved to Hawaii only two months into dating (we were best friends first) and have been here for the past 7 years. In those 7 years I have seen his parents twice. My fiancé doesn’t call/talk to his mom much so the only relationship I have with her is when we FaceTime on holidays. So basically, I asked my fiancé for her number and texted her for the the first time asking if she would like to join my mom and sister on the venue tour. Over an hour later and no response back, she calls my fiancé sobbing saying “does she even know my name?! Why didn’t she say it in her text? I’m not going!” And hangs up. (My text started off with, “Hi! It’s ____”) After the complete shock on my end, thinking I was doing something nice, I didn’t know how to respond. My fiancé decided to ask his brother for advice on how we should respond and he gets all heated saying to my fiancé, “you’re planning your wedding and you didn’t CALL her?!?” With technology being what it is these days I didn’t see anything wrong with this form of communication as this is primarily how I keep in contact with my own family. I do see their side and respect their feelings, however my fiancé’s brother then went on a 20min rant about how they don’t even know me, how I’m not marrying into their family but my fiancé’s marrying into mine, brought up how his ex at least made an attempt to get to know their mom and I haven’t (again, I live across the country and my fiancé doesn’t even talk to his mom much), and a bunch of other misconceptions they have about me that clearly aren’t true. I had my fiancé call his mom back to clear up those misconceptions of me not wanting to spend time with them (it was my fiancé who didn’t want to) and she’s managed to make this whole situation all about her. My fiancé got her to agree to go see the venue but has demanded that my mom/sister call her when they’re on their way to the venue and again when they arrive. Because she “doesn’t like texts”.
My question for you guys is what are your thoughts on this whole situation? Am I in the wrong or is she?

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Latest activity by Chloe, on October 25, 2021 at 11:41 PM
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    Master July 2019
    Hannah ·
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    While I agree that she's definitely being over-dramatic, I don't think there's really a right or a wrong here. She made her communication preferences clear, and while they may not be what you prefer, I would just respect her desire to be called instead of texted and watch out for any other behaviors. It may be that this is just her 1 weird thing or she may continue to act like this with other things. Has your fiance said she's often dramatic? Is that why he has limited contact with her?
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    Krista ·
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    I am so sorry, that sounds awful! You reached out to her and only got grief and misconceptions throw at you. If she felt that way for any amount of time she should have addressed it. Communication goes two ways. If she is upset she doesn’t know you and has done nothing on her end to remedy that then it’s really on her
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    Ingrid ·
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    Wow, there is definitely something more about this. Your text was just the final straw for her. This has nothing to do with you, maybe other than sending a text rather than calling her. Sounds like you FH needs to connect more with his family, but communication is a two way street she should call him too. I'm sorry this happened to you, but know you didn't do anything wrong and in fact wanted to include her. Next time call not text. . .
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    Peyton ·
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    No good deed goes unpunished. Yikes! Not a big surprise that your fiancé avoids this woman like the bubonic plague. This woman is looking to be insulted. Good luck trying to avoid that

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    Chloe ·
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    Yeah, now that I know her preferred method of communication is via phone calls, I will DEFINITELY be doing so from here on out. My fiancé actually looked over my text first before I sent it out to make sure everything looked okay because he “knew she’d find something wrong about it”. I don’t think he intentionally limits contact with her, we just aren’t the best at doing so (I’m the same way with my own mother). I also don’t think he had any clue she prefers to receive phone calls either because he was just as shocked as I was with her response
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    Chloe ·
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    Thanks for your kind words. Really makes me feel better 🤍
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    Chloe ·
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    Thanks for your kind words. Yes, communication is definitely a two way street and it’s something we all need to work on. And YES! I will most definitely be calling her from here on out! 😓
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    Chloe ·
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    Here’s to the future with the future MIL 😬😬
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