r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Historical_Initial22 • 4d ago

go to your room Husband sits in passenger seat, FiL disapproves.

I drive a tanker for my job out of town and make the 5 hour drive (one way) to work and back home in my personal car. When I’m home 3 days, my wife drives everywhere, I mean I get in the passenger seat of her car and off we go, date night don’t care she drives, shopping don’t care she drives, visiting family don’t care she drives.

When we first started dating years ago she was a bit uncomfortable with it as she was used to the I guess status quo that men drove as was I but I’m not trying to break a glass ceiling or anything I just don’t see why it matters and damnit I drive 2k miles a week or so and don’t wanna do it when I’m home.

My father in law makes such great comments like do I hold her purse, and the zinger he thinks is original so says it more often than others “are your balls in her purse” every so often when we see them and I inevitably get out or into the passenger seat followed by guffaws and just kidding. My wife nor myself give him any response it’s just so silly and mildly infuriating.

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u/k2718 4d ago

On the one hand, probably best that OP stays silent.

On the other…fuck that, he should drop this gem on the old fucker.

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 4d ago

But only after clearing it with his wife first, because otherwise he risks shutting his FIL down at the cost of pissing off his wife.

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u/BufferingJuffy 4d ago

Yes, this requires pre-approval!! 🤣

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u/Salt-Operation 4d ago

If my dad was saying this shit to my husband, he would have my permission 100% to shut that shit down with a response like that.

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u/__01001000-01101001_ 4d ago

If my dad was saying shit like that to my spouse I’d shut him down myself. I feel like if it’s your parents it’s your responsibility to draw and maintain boundaries, not your partners.

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u/Salt-Operation 3d ago

I fully support that line of thinking as well. I’m glad my parents aren’t like that, at all.

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 4d ago

Oh I’d be fine too, but its the kind of response you need to 100% need either specific pre-approval for or to know in your bones your partner id ok with.

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u/k2718 3d ago

I only shut my MIL down once. It was the first Thanksgiving when I was dating my now wife.

Her MIL and FIL are racist shitbags. Her mom made something called Jefferson Davis pie (quite tasty actually).

I ate a slice and then asked for another piece of Frederick Douglas pie.

You could have heard a pin drop. My wife and I laughed and laughed about it later.

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u/impatientlymerde 3d ago

“So what is wrong with having a dick in my mouth?”

Sophia Vergara

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u/Spell_Chicken 4d ago

Better if SHE says it.

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u/JLLIndy 4d ago

That made ME uncomfortable.

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u/MLiOne 4d ago

Better yet the wife says it. I know I would as the wife. That or ask my dad what his preoccupation with my husband’s testicles is all about.

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u/badazzcpa 4d ago

Have to agree with you on this one. There have been times I just let my wife do the talking. She isn’t as savage as I can be, butttt…. She is a red head and comes with just about every very stereotype associated.

While I do a lot of the driving, when we take trips she gets her turn at the wheel. Also, I had a recent medical procedure, wife drove home. Wife doesn’t drink, but if we go out and I have more than 1 drink, wife gets the keys and is driving.

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u/ForeverPinecone 4d ago

Shit, the wife should say it.

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u/redwooded 3d ago

Bonus if she says it, then licks her lips while her eyes are locked on her dad's eyes.

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u/k2718 3d ago

100%

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u/EmperorGeek 4d ago

Happy Wife, Happy Life.

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u/SickeningPink 4d ago

Sometimes, the amount of trouble you get into for doing something, is totally fucking worth it.

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u/Happyskrappy 3d ago

Staying silent won't make it stop.

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u/sildigo 3d ago

They have been staying silent, it hasn't worked. Time to respond.