“What is it about pregnancy that makes people forget any sense of manners?”
: I so agree! Even if people aren’t as outrageous as the relatives in the letter, you don’t want to question yourself because someone wrinkles their nose or says “interesting …”: I know she said her husband “let it slip,” but if they had made it an explicit mission of their pregnancy to absolutely keep the name a secret, I doubt that would have happened.
Or “Ewww, I know a [insert name] once. They were such an asshole.” It makes no sense, but when you share things like this with people, they think that they are entitled to weigh in negatively on something you’ve spent time and care on. But, it’s too late, it’s done, the mother is being terrible—and racist?: Absolutely—I think even when people have the best intentions, it’s a way for them to feel like they’re intimately involved .
: And her husband has to stop letting things “slip.” Which really means, not doing anything to make his mom thinks she gets a vote—even if that means withholding a lot of parenting information.: I was glad to see that he is playing an active part in defending her, which seems to not be the case in most of these letters. But yeah, a better situation would have been just not giving her ammo.
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