\u00a0Man felt he had to take his wife\u2019s side regarding a family dispute.<\/p>\n
However, his mother became angry at him for doing so, so he turned to the internet to find out if he was right.<\/p>\n
A man took to Reddit for advice regarding his pregnant wife and his mother\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n
He explained that it was his\u00a0mother\u2019s birthday<\/u><\/a>\u00a0at the same time that his seven-month-pregnant wife was feeling uncomfortable and particularly sensitive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The man offered to take his mother to dinner for her birthday, and she picked a place that was a 40-minute drive away.<\/p>\n The man told his mother he didn\u2019t want to travel that far as his wife was uncomfortable traveling long distances in a car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He also explained to his mother that his wife could eat little on the menu because it was a seafood restaurant, and his wife couldn\u2019t eat shellfish<\/p>\n He then asked his mother if she would choose a nearby restaurant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The man\u2019s mother refused, saying the only good seafood restaurants were farther away.<\/p>\n The man then suggested that his mother choose a different cuisine, noting that they had Mexican and Hibachi near them, which he knew his mother loved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The man\u2019s mother became angry and told him his wife could stay home while they went to dinner.<\/p>\n She found it startling that a grown woman couldn\u2019t stay home alone for a few hours while her husband went to dinner.<\/p>\n After telling his mother that his wife wouldn\u2019t be pregnant forever and asking her to work with them, his mother told him to forget about it and yelled that her birthday was not about his wife.<\/p>\n The man\u00a0responded<\/u><\/a>, \u201cMy wife comes first.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The man also accused his mother of being selfish and childish, so she hung up the phone. This led to the man\u2019s family telling him he was wrong and his wife crying because the whole family was upset with her for ruining her mother-in-law\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The man asked netizens whether or not he was justified in standing up for his wife and asking his mom to change her birthday plans. He received many mixed responses from fellow Reddit users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n One user told the man he was justified in his\u00a0reaction<\/u><\/a>, and they were glad he was standing up for his wife. They then asked if his mother often acted this way toward his wife, to which he responded in the affirmative. The man also said that his mother\u2019s fianc\u00e9e had taken her to the restaurant, which he found was enabling her bad behavior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Another netizen told the man he was wrong for making it seem like the situation was his wife\u2019s fault and said they would not have stopped their husband\u00a0from going somewhere<\/a>\u00a0they didn\u2019t want to go when they were\u00a0pregnant<\/u>. The person also noted that their husband wouldn\u2019t have blamed it on them if he didn\u2019t want to go somewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n One opinion was that the man should have told his mother he was sorry he would miss the event and let his mother feel however she felt. The person suggested offering\u00a0coffee and cake<\/u><\/a>\u00a0at home instead of going out for dinner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n