Relationships with in-laws can certainly be tricky, but seeing your mother-in-law naked takes the cake when it comes to awkwardness. One man took to Reddit to ask fellow forum users if he was the “a*******” for wanting to ban his wife’s mum from their hot tub after seeing her topless.
The disgruntled husband, 31, explained that his 42-year-old mother-in-law was using their hot tub to help with her back pain.
He was sitting with her in the hot tub when she started stretching and her swimsuit top came undone.
He said: “She didn’t exactly rush to cover up and I saw much more than I wanted to see.”
While she did apologise for the incident, the husband admitted it was “still really weird” for him.
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The man told his wife, 28, what had happened and she “laughed it off”, however a “huge fight” ensued when he said he doesn’t want her coming over to use the hot tub “any time soon” – or at least “be around her” when she does.
He added that his mother-in-law had his wife at age 14 and that they interact more like siblings or friends than mother and daughter.
The mum typically comes over every other week to clean the house and then eases her back pain with a dip in the hot tub.
She offered to help out around the house and her son-in-law appreciated the extra help – “until now”.
While she had never exposed herself to him before, the man claimed she had done a few questionable things like brushing her chest up against him when reaching for things, wearing low-cut shirts when coming to the house with only him there, and generally being “very touchy” – although his wife explained that’s just how he is.
He continued: “There has been no verbal flirting whatsoever, as far as I can tell, but until now I haven’t really been paying attention.
“I am now second-guessing previous encounters with her, but I may just be paranoid.”
The man explained that while he doesn’t want to cut his mother-in-law out totally, he could do with some space to reset.
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Many Reddit users took to the forum to weigh in on whether the husband was being an “a*******” to his mother-in-law.
One user empathised: “This feels like a testing-the-waters thing to me and it isn’t unreasonable that it would make you feel weird.
“It’s unfortunate that your wife decided to fight about it instead of hearing you, but you can just drop it and conveniently be busy with other things if her mom comes over to soak.”
However, another user took a different standpoint defending the mother-in-law.
She said: “I feel like you might be overreacting. My swimsuit always feels like it’s untied in a hot tub.
“Strings/straps just floating around, especially when the jets are on. It probably took her a second to realise it was actually off.”
Responding to his worry that his mother-in-law brushes up against him when reaching for things, she said that “this is life with boobs”.
And she concluded: “Unless you know that she specifically chooses or changes into a low cut top when she knows it’s just you, who cares?”
After doing some thinking and reading the comments, the original poster said he “realises he overreacted” and is going to apologise to both his wife and mother-in-law. He resolved to do his best to “pretend it never happened”.
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