Woman Blindsided When Her Mom Invites Her Ex-Fiancé to Dinner, Pretended They Never Broke Up
She showed up to what was supposed to be a quiet dinner with family, only to find someone from her past waiting at the table
Her mom's explanation for the surprise left her stunned and questioning whether it was thoughtless or something much worse
Now she's being called dramatic for how she reacted, and she's turning to the internet to ask who crossed the line in this situationA woman seeks advice from the Reddit community after an emotional ambush at her mother's house left her stunned, hurt, and questioning everything.
What she thought would be a quiet family dinner turned into a reunion she never asked for with her ex-fiancé.
'So this happened last night and I'm still not even sure how to process it,' she begins in her post, explaining how her mom invited her over for what she believed was a simple get-together. Instead, she walked in to find the man she broke off an engagement with sitting comfortably at the table.
The poster, a 29-year-old woman, says she was with 'Eric' for four years and engaged to him for one before the relationship ended five months ago. She discovered inappropriate messages he had been sending to a coworker, nothing physical, she says, but certainly a breach of trust.
'I ended things, returned the ring, blocked him on everything,' she writes. 'And honestly? I've been doing a lot better since.'
While she has moved on from the relationship, it appears her mother hasn't. The woman explains that her 60-year-old mom always liked Eric, 'Like, too much,' and struggled to accept the breakup, even after she was told why it happened.
'I tried to be gentle when I told her why we broke up,' she writes. 'But she kept making excuses for him, 'men are visual creatures,' 'he didn't do anything physical,' etc.'
The poster says she made it clear she didn't want to talk about Eric anymore, and for a while, it seemed her mom understood. But all that changed when she arrived at her mom's house for what was supposed to be a low-key evening.
'She invited me to a 'casual dinner' at her house,' the post continues. 'Said it would be just me, her, and my younger brother.' But when she got there, the woman says she froze in the doorway. 'Guess who's already there, sitting at the table like we're on an episode of This Is Your Life? Yep. Eric.'
Her mom brushed it off like it was nothing, greeting her daughter with a chipper, 'Oh, look who stopped by! Isn't this nice?' And if that wasn't enough, Eric himself smiled and added, 'Hey stranger.'
The woman says she didn't even take off her shoes. She turned around and left.
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Later, she texted her mother to explain how betrayed she felt, only to be told she was being dramatic. 'She said I was being dramatic and that 'she just wanted to help us find closure,'' the poster writes.
But from her perspective, closure had already been found. 'I already had closure. I left him. I'm healing.' To make matters worse, her mom seemed more concerned with how things looked than with how her daughter felt. 'She told me I embarrassed her in front of a guest,' the woman adds.
Now, the situation has grown even more complicated. Her younger brother is pressuring her to smooth things over and is suggesting she should've just 'stuck it out' for the duration of the meal.
But from the woman's point of view, her mom's actions crossed a line. 'Honestly felt manipulative,' she writes of the surprise dinner setup.
In her final plea to Reddit, she's not asking for judgment, just clarity. 'So Reddit, am I overreacting? Or is this just totally nuts?'
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