Woman’s In-Laws Complain About Ruined Vacation Plans After She Announces Her Pregnancy. Now, She Wants to Cut Them Off

A woman says she’s thinking about cutting ties with her in-laws after their negative reaction to her pregnancy announcement.

In a post on Reddit, she explained that she is 14 weeks pregnant and has spent the past couple of weeks sharing the news with family.

“Now in these past couple weeks we’ve had some terrible reactions from my in-laws. My mother-in-law and father-in-law were immediately excited for really just themselves, then said ‘oh darn now we can’t go on our vacation,’ and then told us how to tell the siblings because we were going to cause a fight if we did it wrong,” she wrote.

She went on to say that her in-laws kept bringing up babysitting, even though they had always insisted before her pregnancy that they would “never babysit.”

Things didn’t improve with extended family. According to her, they made her “swear on [her] husband’s life” that she was really pregnant, claimed they didn’t believe the news, got upset that the announcement wasn’t a big production, and even suggested it would be “cooler” if someone else in the family were having a baby instead.

But the part that hurt most, she said, was that her sister-in-law and brother-in-law didn’t believe the pregnancy news at all.

“When they finally started to believe it, it was all fake reactions, no apologies and excuses on why they’d react that way,” she wrote. “At this point, I truly do not want to speak to any of them. We’ve experienced more joy for our news from strangers than people we spend countless hours with.”

Now, she’s asking the internet if cutting her in-laws off completely is the right move.

While some Reddit users were supportive, others warned that avoiding her in-laws may be nearly impossible — especially once the baby is born.

One commenter wrote: “As a practical matter it will be extremely difficult to unilaterally cut them off. It will be challenging for your relationship with your husband. The two of you need to get on the same page with this.”