What do you do when your best friend is crying? Comfort her? Her husband's got that covered. Beat up the person who made her cry? Sounds like a good idea. Except for one thing. It was her mother.
I understand mothers wanting to teach their children. I understand them wanting to correct their children when they are doing wrong. But when is it okay to basically tell your child (who's 24, by the way, and has been married for two years) that's she's not good enough and her husband is lazy? When is it ever okay for anyone to complain to a wife about her husband?
I can't help but be very grateful for the parents I have. They are very caring, and want to know about our lives, but they are never intrusive, and they would never complain to any of my siblings about their spouses. All it does is build a huge rift between the child and the parent, because it doesn't matter what the situation is, a smart wife (and my friend is one), will always pick their husband over anyone.
So what do you do when your best friend is crying? I don't get upset when people insult, ridicule, or hurt me. But when you hurt my friend, I don't care who you are, I will very likely hate you for the rest of eternity. I guess that's just the blue personality in me coming out. Everything in me wants to write to this mother and tell her just how amazing my friend is, how much she is hurting right now, and just scream at her until she gets the message. But that's not my place. And so I rant.
But heaven help the person who complains to me about my husband some day. They might die. Just a warning now.
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