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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Lol, that's awful! When we told my MIL we were getting engaged, at a dinner in a restaurant, she literally cried while mumbling to herself "My life is over." She wore white to our wedding, and tried to find out exactly where our honeymoon was so she could come. We were gone for ten days. She called 28 times. [/quote]

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