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Would you find this gift rude/hurtful?

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Darkclothes · 05/03/2025 21:07

MIL recently bought me this cooking apron for my birthday. I do cook meals from scratch daily, but only bake cakes for birthdays- so maybe twice a year!

I've put on weight the past 2 yrs. A combination of finishing 12yrs of sub-fertility and rounds of IVF, then finding out I'll never have my own children, moving from an active job to WFH and also an injury which has limited how much exercise I can do.

MIL and I had a falling out 10yrs ago, but have been on reasonable terms since. I don't know if it's a subtle hint to my weight gain or I'm overthinking and she just saw a cooking apron and didn't think about the text. Would you feel hurt/offended by this?

Would you find this gift rude/hurtful?
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thisoldcity · 10/03/2025 18:00

My long departed MIL once gave me a very pretty stained glass sort of thing to hang up at the window, but when I looked closer it was the alcoholics prayer printed on there!

SaveAndEarnMoreMoney · 14/06/2025 22:03

Katkins17 · 05/03/2025 21:16

Looks exactly like the sort of gift my ex-MIL bought me.

She bouquet me 'flammable' underwear in a size 18 ...I was a size 12 at the time.

A toilet roll holder, tea towels, a hot water bottle and a book of low calorie meals.

Whilst everyone else got large sums of money in a card.

I'd rather have got nothing tbh.

Wow, what a total b*tch!!

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