1. You need to be able to laugh at yourself. Being overly sensitive to criticism is not a good thing to teach your child. Insecurity is never a good look.

2. Maybe your DH just saved your child from embarrassment. Your child may have repeated the phrase among her peers and faced ridicule.

3. You need to lighten up a little or you will drive people away.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, what a harsh audience!

He apologized. I probably overreacted.

I do think family dinners are important.

But -- please tell me I am not the only one who sometimes think they are a pain.

Right there with you OP. My teens have been known to gang up on me during dinner (while DH ignores it) , or pick that time to start stupid arguments with each other. So I have definitely sometimes felt like family dinners are WAY overrated.

Wow, what a harsh audience!

He apologized. I probably overreacted.

I do think family dinners are important.

But -- please tell me I am not the only one who sometimes think they are a pain.

My husband laughs at me ... and I laugh at him. So it works out.

If you think family dinners are a bad idea, you probably shouldn't be married.

Do your husband a favor and divorce him. It's for his own good.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks 22:34, I appreciate you being nice to me.

I just wanted to vent.

Now if I told the phrase in the post, I would totally get more ridiculed!

You admit, that it was funny or worth a laugh. Why not laugh and switch back to the issue at hand.

I can't believe this is a thread. The offended DW needs to (1) share the full info about the magical "phrase" in question -- as you likely deserve the ridicule and (2) chill the F out about disagreements with your DH about minor/petty BS.

Thanks 22:34, I appreciate you being nice to me.

I just wanted to vent.

Now if I told the phrase in the post, I would totally get more ridiculed!

I can stretch to understanding that sometimes the most innocuous action on a spouse's part can generate raging resentment. I've personally felt that way, too.

But POSTING about it on DCUM?
That's asking for another round of mockery, OP

PS: I like using those words too! Like "fundament", which is so much better than saying "butt", only not many Americans know about it.

should that matter? and it was a phrase

What word?

Of course not.

This is your biggest problem?

What was the word?

My husband laughed at me at dinner tonight when I was trying to help DD with a serious issue. He thought it was funny that I used a term that is now a common vernacular as if I made it up.

Turns out that my definition of the term is not the same as the currently accepted definition.

That all doesn't matter. What matters is he turned the whole dinner into nothing but a 'laugh at mom, how can she mean that" frigging festival.

Lost was the point I was trying to make to DD. Is was an important issue too.

Sometimes I hate my life. Maybe family dinners are not such a good idea anymore ...