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[quote=Anonymous]I have SO many, but the standout one really is when DH and I told MIL that we had gotten engaged.

We had broken up earlier that year mostly because DH was avoiding dealing with a lot of emotional trauma and it resulted in him shutting down any time we would have even the slightest conflict.  The trauma was mostly from childhood - sexual abuse that he never felt safe telling his parents about, the death of a sibling that was handled very badly by his parents, their divorce - nothing actually directly related to our relationship.  Anyway, after a few months of him being in therapy, we got back together and got engaged.

He called her and had me on speakerphone but we never actually told her I was on speakerphone (not an intentional oversight)...we were just at hello and she said, "What's new?" and he said, "____ and I got engaged!" and she GASPED and said, "OHMYGOD, have you talked to your therapist about that?!?!!?!?"  (as if it was a horrible thing....)

we have never really recovered from that moment.  :-)[/quote]

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