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Family mocking partner’s speech - AIBU to be upset?

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PReggoDuck23 · 08/06/2025 15:40

Bit of a rant really. We’re on a UK break with my family, just a cottage thing in Wales. Me, OH, my parents, my sister and her fella. I’m 23 weeks pregnant and just feeling a bit raw anyway tbh.

So my OH’s got a bit of a speech thing. Not a full stammer but he struggles sometimes with certain words or says stuff wrong, mispronounces things a bit. I’m used to it now and usually know exactly what he means. He gets worse when he’s tired and it’s been a long few days. We’ve been walking loads and it’s not exactly relaxing.

Last night after dinner he was trying to tell a story and got stuck on a word. Tried like 3 times to say it and my dad and sister just started laughing and taking the piss. Doing voices and repeating it back to him all wrong. He tried to laugh it off but I could see he was gutted. I told them to pack it in and they were like oh calm down we’re only joking. Then my sister said I’m just hormonal.

This morning he said he had a migraine and stayed at the cottage. Might be true but also reckon he just didn’t fancy spending the day with them after last night. Can’t blame him.

I said something again to my mum and she just rolled her eyes and said he’s too sensitive and they’re only winding him up. But I don’t think it’s funny at all. I feel really protective of him and also just really sad he’s been made to feel like that. It’s meant to be a nice time away before baby comes and now it just feels crap.

AIBU to be upset? Should I have said more?

OP posts:
IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 08/06/2025 18:32

Once you've packed up your car first thing in the morning, slash the tyres on their car(s) and smash all their windows, just before you leave.

When they discover it and get angry, tell them it was just a joke and they're pathetic for being so oversensitive.

<obviously don't actually do this... but how tempting>

RosesAndHellebores · 08/06/2025 18:30

You need to stand hard in front, behind and to the side of your partner and the father of your child. I'd bet my bottom dollar he's also better educated than them.

Pack and leave tomorrow

They are just vile.

SmugglersHaunt · 08/06/2025 18:28

I’d answer by taking the piss out of each one of your family in the most personal, horrible way you can - I’m sure they have multiple things ‘wrong’ with them in addition to being absolute pieces of shit.

Anyahyacinth · 08/06/2025 18:27

As it’s your family I think it’s on you to say clearly it’s unacceptable, he is being loving and not creating a fracture, being his kind self, you need to stand for him. Tell the family their nasty behaviour needs to stop. Ask them why they feel they need to belittle someone? Why are they so insecure they need to bully someone?

chatgptsbestmate · 08/06/2025 18:23

Your family is horrible

I wouldn't walk out of the holiday, as that might make your partner feel worse (check with him though)

However I would go deliberately and obviously LC with them after the holiday

Tell your partner how sorry you are that your family is disgusting

MILLYmo0se · 08/06/2025 18:20

Tbh I think you need to stop putting this back on him too OP. He can't be the one asking you to make a stand against your family and leave the holiday, you need to make a stand and make the decision yourself if you think that's the right thing to do. And if you love him you know it's the right thing to do. The poor man has been putting up with these jabs from your family for the length of your relationship it seems like, and he obviously loves you very much as he doesn't seem to have complained to you or asked you to back him.

outerspacepotato · 08/06/2025 18:18

Your family is bullying your partner and the father of your child right in front of you. You need to deal with this and shut that bullshit down hard.

They're the kind of people who bully people with a disability, in his case, a speech impediment that affects his fluency. Stress, like being bullied, can make that worse. They're deliberately baiting him and enjoying it. That's not funny or banter, that's sadism.

I'd make it clear that was nasty and uncalled for and leave immediately and block their asshole selves.

Wednesdayisme · 08/06/2025 18:18

Making fun of someone with a stammer is cruel.
I wonder how your family would feel if someone made fun of something they were conscious of and laugh about it, I'm guessing not.

I'd of left tbh.

froggybiby · 08/06/2025 18:17

I agree with others, your family has been very nasty to your partner without any need for it. I would pack up as soon as possible, if they don't change their attitude and it does not look like they will as they were making digs since the start of the break.

yakkity · 08/06/2025 18:16

Your family sound incredibly low class OP. Very ignorant and ill educated. I’d be so embarrassed if my family were like that. Deeply embarrassed.

show them this thread and what everyone thinks of their behaviour.

KateShugakIsALegend · 08/06/2025 18:16

Lozza70 · 08/06/2025 15:42

Sorry but your family were being complete arseholes. You need to stand up to this and defend your partner. It’s not acceptable for adults to behave like this.

First post nails it

TonTonMacoute · 08/06/2025 18:16

Lozza70 · 08/06/2025 15:42

Sorry but your family were being complete arseholes. You need to stand up to this and defend your partner. It’s not acceptable for adults to behave like this.

This.

I was taught as a child that it's extremely rude and hurtful to treat people this way - because it is. People who do this are showing themselves to be pretty shabby human beings.

MaryGreenhill · 08/06/2025 18:14

Your poor DH what wankers they are OP.

ScribblingPixie · 08/06/2025 18:14

I think speak to your mother again - tell her you can both take a joke but this is too much. Your partner has a small physical problem and your father and sister are bullying him whereas, as family, they should be making him feel comfortable and unselfconscious about it. If she still protests, I'd say if they don't knock it on the head you won't be able to spend as much time with them as you'd like in the future, which would be a real shame. They're your family, OP, so you need to be the one to spell it out to them.

CiaoMeow · 08/06/2025 18:13

The fact that they've mocked him will make him more self conscious and nervous and so more likely he'll stammer in front of them again. They behaved appallingly.

SparklyBrickViper · 08/06/2025 18:13

Your family are nasty.

blueshoes · 08/06/2025 18:11

You had no idea growing up that your family are dickheads? This cannot be the first time they have laughed at disabilities.

You should show full support for your dh by leaving the den of bullies immediately and going no/low contact from now on. Your poor dh. He does not need this.

Bonbon21 · 08/06/2025 18:10

Why are you waiting til tomorrow? Do you have your own transport?
Go now!!
Stand up for the father of your child..

PrincessOfPreschool · 08/06/2025 18:10

That's so awful, OP. I feel furious on your behalf, and DH's. It's just going to make it so much worse. I would seriously consider going NC for a while and see if they get it. If they don't then stay NC because that would never ever happen again.

Noshadelamp · 08/06/2025 18:09

I don't know how you're still there, especially as you say you feel protective of your dp.

You know they're nasty bullies, you know your dp is upset, you know they're trying to gaslight you.

I'm guessing that they've always been like this but you're only just realising now so you feel a bit unsure what to do.

We're telling you, what you do is leave.

Spinachpastapicker · 08/06/2025 18:09

Tiredandtiredagain · 08/06/2025 16:39

Oh the “too sensitive” comment, said by arseholes when they’re called out on shit behaviour.

So unkind

Yeah bullies always try to make out it’s always the other person’s fault - they are usually too thick to self reflect on their awful behaviour.

Imisscoffee2021 · 08/06/2025 18:08

What a bunch of knobs. It's only funny if the recipient of such "humour" also finds it funny. Anyone with an ounce of emotional intelligence would have seen he didn't, so it's not a joke it's a piss take ans very unkind.

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 08/06/2025 18:07

The bantering bullies the domain of the thick and stupid.

morden123 · 08/06/2025 18:07

My husband has a stammer and when we were young it was pretty bad especially in situations like this, being with my parents etc. My parents would never have behaved like this but I think your husband should tell them personally rather than you and let them know how despicable they've been. I've just asked my husband how he would have handled this and he said he would have told them.

pestowithwalnuts · 08/06/2025 18:07

How horrible they are.
I'm glad your. DH has you on his side