My Boyfriend’s Mom Forbade Me from Eating Meat on the Vacation I Paid For — I Cooked Up a Better Plan
I paid for a beach vacation for my boyfriend Jake and his family to show I was serious about becoming part of them. His mom, Kathy, seemed warm—until the first dinner, when she quietly had all the meat removed from my plate, saying, “We don’t eat meat in this family.” No one had told me that.
Jake didn’t defend me and asked me to go along with it to “keep the peace.” That’s when I realized he wouldn’t stand up to his mother. So I decided to make a point my own way.
I noticed Kathy had a serious sweet tooth. With a little help from my mom, I made sure dessert kept mysteriously slipping out of Kathy’s reach. She grew increasingly upset about “missing out.”
At the next dinner, I calmly did to her what she’d done to me—lecturing her about sugar and refusing to let her eat it. The message landed. Kathy went quiet… then apologized.
That night, I ate what I wanted, Kathy enjoyed her dessert, and Jake finally understood that respect goes both ways. I didn’t earn my place by paying for the trip—I earned it by standing up for myself.
