Last week wasn’t a good week for ‘misbehaving’ mothers-in-law.
Two of them went viral for their ‘stage-five clinger’ antics at their sons’ weddings – thanks to angry posts from their now daughters-in-law.
On Reddit, a bride posted a wedding photo, which at first seems standard… until you take a closer look and see the groom’s mother posing with her hand firmly grasping his.
Mamamia Confessions: the worst thing I ever said to my mother-in-law. Post continues after video.
The bride explained that in the context of her mother-in-law’s pre-nuptials behaviour, she found the photo the icing on the, ahem, wedding cake.
“She went with him when he got his suit fitted,” the bride complained. “Afterwards, she sent me a long fb [Facebook] message detailing how handsome he looked and how she was ‘falling in love all over again’.
“She also mentioned in the same message that she hoped I would ‘match’ him on the wedding day, meaning she hoped I would look as good as he did. I’m not kidding.”
The bride added that the mother-in-law positioned herself in between the new husband and wife for some of the photos.
Top Comments
If you love your son you will do everything you can to make sure his wife is his first priority.
If you smother him and try and maintain inappropriate bonds he will end up distancing himself from you.
This is my husband’s experience with his mum. Clinginess is the opppsite of endearing.
Sounds oedipal to me
It's kinda the other way though!
Like, an Oedipus Complex is the son lusting after the mother, this is the mother lusting after the son!
Thats what I meant,there must be a name for that