AITA for telling my MIL to come pick up her son (my husband) because he's sick and acting like an AH?
In the quiet storm of a shared life, a woman watches her husband unravel under the weight of sickness—a man shaped by a resilient single mother, an ER nurse with the heart of a hero.
Yet, in his moments of vulnerability, he transforms into a tempest, lashing out with hurtful words and demands, turning their home into a battlefield of silent suffering and unspoken pain.
For three long days, the flu has stripped him of grace, leaving behind a shadow of bitterness and blame that cuts deeper than the illness itself.
She endures the harshness of his weakened state, caught between empathy for his pain and the sting of his cruelty, hoping for the man she loves to return from the darkest edges of his fevered mind.
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The original poster (OP) is dealing with extreme emotional distress caused by her husband's severe behavioral changes whenever he is ill, which involve constant demanding, yelling, and blaming.
Her decision to involve her mother-in-law was a direct result of feeling unable to manage his behavior while balancing her own work responsibilities, thus highlighting a conflict between her need for support and her husband's expectation of unquestioning servitude when sick.
Was the OP justified in calling her husband's mother to intervene when her husband's sickness-induced behavior became unmanageable, or did involving a third party inappropriately escalate a private marital issue, thereby justifying the husband's feeling that she overstepped a boundary?
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