Mother-In-Law Tells Mom With Daughters She 'Needs' To Try For A Boy

It's the conversations right after you get married that go like, "When are you giving me grandchildren?!?" Or, the ones that go, "When are you having another baby?!?" The ones that make us feel absolutely awkward.

She specifically said she wasn't looking for advice and just wanted to vent. But, of course, Reddit users had a lot to say about her mother-in-law. Clearly, she's the prime example of giving too much unwanted advice.

While the entire family was there, her two daughters weren't all that excited to see grandma on FaceTime. It happens — some kids are over talking to everyone on the phone after quarantine.

She wrote:

"Apparently everyone in the [expletive] world thinks I ‘need’ a boy because I have 2 girls.

I hear it all the time. Not just from MIL but my own family and friends and it drives me nuts."

She also said her and her partner had discussed that they were "done having children."

"I’m preparing to get my tubes tied because I don’t want any more children. Me and my partner have had the conversation he understands I can’t do it anymore (pregnancy sucks) and I’m happy with what we have.

I’ve told him if he really feels like he needs to have more kids (he’s never said that he has always said a boy) he is welcome to find someone else and I would understand," the mom said in her post.

She continued:

"It always irks me the wrong way when people say this... like having a girl isn’t good enough for you? She isn’t good enough because she doesn’t have a penis? My life won’t be complete if I don’t have a boy? I’m sorry but that’s absolute bullsh*t."

One Reddit user said:

"My MIL did the same thing to me, at her daughter’s baby shower, which I hosted at my house, with mostly my friends because JNSIL didn’t have many of her own. I was at that time, and still am, the mother of two fabulous daughters.

MIL said she thought I needed to have one more baby, perhaps it would be a boy. I responded that her son didn’t want anymore children (I’d asked, he’d declined). Her next question was, 'Why do you have to ask him?' Meaning that I should trick DH into a third pregnancy.

My response put her immediately in her place:

'Because HE is in charge of the birth control!'"

One user wrote:

"I worry about the message this sends to the girls — that they are somehow defective or not valuable. Its like "OK NEXT!" MIL is gonna miss out on the grands she HAS waiting for the grand she WISHES she had. If you and H are fine with it her opinion is neither wanted or asked for."

Our bodies are our bodies and our families are our families. No matter who has an opinion, it's time we rule them out and do what makes us happy.