Woman Snaps at Mother-in-Law Over 'Snide' Remarks About Her Remote Work. But Her Husband Says She Was Too 'Mean'

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2 days ago

A woman who works from home says her mother-in-law frequently makes rude comments about her job
Her husband's mom always jokes that it "must be nice to sit in pajamas all day"
Things reached a fever pitch when the mother-in-law made another remark during a dinner — and the woman fired backA woman finally had enough of her mother-in-law's disrespect, snapping back at the woman following a recent rude comment.
In a post published to Reddit, the anonymous 28-year-old writes that she works from home as a software developer.
Her mother-in-law, she adds, "has never understood or respected that."
"Every time she visits, she makes snide remarks like, 'Oh, must be nice to sit in pajamas all day,' or 'Back in my day, we actually had to commute to work,' " she writes in the post.
The situation reached a fever pitch at a recent dinner.
"During dinner, someone asked what I do, and before I could answer, MIL chuckled and said, 'Oh, she watches Netflix and calls it coding,' " she writes. "Without skipping a beat, I smiled and said, 'Yeah, and that 'Netflix' paid off your son's student loans and bought this house.' "
"Everyone laughed. MIL got really quiet," she continues. "After they left, my husband said I was being unnecessarily mean and should've just let it slide."
Now, the woman wants to know if she was in the wrong for snapping back.
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However, many fellow Reddit users focused less on the two women and more on the husband.
"Well maybe if he wants to avoid being humiliated in the future he should make sure he puts a muzzle on his mother so these unfortunate things don't occur any more," one user wrote.
Added another commenter: "So many men can't handle even the most minor insinuation that their spouse might be the breadwinner."
"He probably enjoyed the idea that people would think he'd paid it off himself, paid for the house himself, or at least contributed the majority of it," someone else chimed in. "Now it's in the open that not only is his mum horrible, he's also not 'the breadwinner' or whatever. Rather the wife, he's let be humiliated for years, is the one who gave him everything."
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