Mother-in-Law RUINS OUR HONEYMOON by calling us NONSTOP
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My entitled mother-in-law literally won't stop calling me and my husband on our honeymoon. |
| 0:04.8 | As she has interrupted every single moment me and my husband have tried to share together, |
| 0:08.9 | even going as far as calling the hotels that we're staying at, in some kind of weird attempt to occupy all of our time, |
| 0:15.3 | leaving me incredibly frustrated and wondering what I should do next. Here's how it's going down. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm a 24-year-old female and my husband and I embarked on our honeymoon two weeks ago. We've been together for six years and we just got married. Every single day, both my parents-in-laws have called us, not even to check in on us, but instead to have full-blown rants about family drama, asking if we can organize A, B, and C when we get back, why we haven't sent any photos, and if we're going to have their grandchildren yet. Now, here's the thing. I was regularly posting on Facebook stories until my phone would blow up with both parents spamming us by text messaging. Now, I don't mind the occasional text every couple of days checking in, but it's getting ridiculous now. We're talking multiple times a day calling in. It has gotten to the point where we literally took out our phone SIM cards so we could spend some quality time together, but my mother-in-law called the hotel asking for us. I sent them the itinerary so they could know where we were and that we were safe so they didn't have to call us to ask. But this just made things worse. It has ruined our honeymoon. Every time we were about to relax, boom, the phone rings. And if we don't pick up, we get constant text messages. And if we don't answer the text message, she calls the accommodation. I've tried telling her that we need some space to enjoy our love bubble being newly married, but she literally got hysterical. Now, |
| 1:28.1 | it's important to know that my husband hasn't set any boundaries with his parents. And these |
| 1:32.1 | people are particularly needy since he's now moved out and all this other stuff. They also |
| 1:36.5 | haven't quite accepted the fact that he's an adult and has also reconnected with his biological |
| 1:41.2 | family because he's adopted. So seriously, how do we set boundaries with |
| 1:44.8 | his parents in a gentle way that won't hurt their feelings? What should I do? Oh man, if there's ever |
| 1:50.1 | been a situation where you definitely need to put your foot down, it is right now. I guarantee you that |
| 1:55.7 | your mother-in-law is never going to let up from here on out if you don't set some serious boundaries. |
| 2:00.3 | And unfortunately, |
| 2:01.1 | I think you might have to be the one to do that because your husband is useless. Listen, there is no reason anybody should be calling you on your honeymoon dude. Unless someone's died or like your house is on fire, like seriously, stop calling. And if I was in your place, I would be going to the hotel and being like, listen, don't forward any phone calls to our room ever again. |
| 2:18.9 | There's no emergency big enough |
| 2:20.2 | that we would be going to the hotel and being like, listen, don't forward any phone calls to our room ever again. There's no emergency big enough that we would ever need to answer anything from these people. Because seriously, this is so weird. And here's the thing, you're probably going to hurt their feelings. Like, there's nothing you can really do about that. And the only way to not hurt their feelings is to just go along with it and be a pushover. But holy crap, you don't want to do that because they will be all over you for the rest of your marriage. |
| 2:37.8 | And in my opinion... not hurt their feelings is to just go along with it and be a pushover. But holy crap, you don't want to do that |
| 2:34.8 | because they will be all over you for the rest of your marriage. And in my opinion, that is something I would want to set up like immediately much sooner than later, because it begins with them calling on your honeymoon and then it's going to lead to God knows where else. If you like Am I the Jerk, you're probably going to love Am I the Genius. Check it out, link down below |
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| 2:57.8 | stories. An entitled client learns that professionals can in fact walk away, especially when they |
| 3:03.0 | were as rude as the lady I had to deal with. And I'm honestly still blown away that they treated |
| 3:07.4 | me so poorly, but also, I'm so happy that I don't have to deal with. And I'm honestly still blown away that they treated me so |
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