Single Dad Learns How To Cook His Late Wife's Recipes For His Daughter Only To Find Out His MIL Throws Them Away
For a 6-year-old, dealing with death and grief is extremely difficult to navigate.
Grief can change the way a child eats, sleeps, and clings to the people who feel safest. In this Reddit story, one single dad was doing everything he could to help his 6-year-old daughter after the death of her mother, including learning how to cook his late wife’s recipes so the little girl would actually eat.
His in-laws were helping with childcare while he worked, but the arrangement started to fall apart when the grandfather and grandmother decided the meals were too limited. Then the dad discovered something worse, his mother-in-law had been throwing away the food he packed, leaving his daughter with snacks instead of the meals he made for her.
That discovery turned a painful family situation into a full-blown conflict. Read on.
One Reddit user, u/0gravity0respect, shared the story of how his young daughter had been struggling with the death of her mother.
Not the actual photoHe explained that his young daughter was a very picky eater.
Reddit / 0gravity0respectShe refused to eat because she only wanted her mother's cooking, so the loving dad learned to cook all of his late wife's recipes for their daughter.
Reddit / 0gravity0respect
He would prepare meals for his daughter to take with her to her grandparents' house while he was at work.
Reddit / 0gravity0respect
That is where the trouble started.
But his MIL wasn't impressed.
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Eventually, he discovered that his MIL had gone one step further; she had started throwing out the meals he was cooking for his daughter.
Reddit / 0gravity0respect
Since his daughter refused to eat any other meals, she had only been having snacks while with her grandparents.
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He was not happy about it.
Our OP was understandably furious at his MIL.
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His in-laws labeled him "cruel" for the way he reacted.
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People online had plenty to say about that part.
This gets messy like the weekly dinner blowup where the brother complained, mom barely ate, and the OP refused to cater picky eaters and dietary restrictions, AITA style.
Here's how people reacted.
Reddit / Altaira9
NTA!
Reddit / jasemina8487
"Your MIL is a bully."
Reddit / C0pper-an0de
"You're not overreacting."
Reddit / deleted
"She outright disrespected your parenting choices."
Reddit / CashieBashie
"Your MIL is being mean and cruel."
Reddit / BelliAmie
"G'parents are a**holes."
Reddit / Deo14
The comments kept piling up.
"She's essentially starving your child."
Reddit / Electronic-Chapter-1
"You don't need this."
Reddit / curiousbelgian
"Such entitlement."
Reddit / YallIHaveSoManyCats
"You're doing a good thing."
Reddit / rhysandandstuff
"I'm torn."
Reddit / SirNemesis
What's your take on our OP's situation? Do you think he's being unreasonable, or is he entirely within his rights to react the way he did?
The Reddit community was pretty adamant that the dad was by no means the a**hole here, and we tend to agree with them.
As always, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section.
Some family boundaries are hard to ignore.
Wait until you see why he refused to share grandma’s pancake recipe with his sister. Here’s the AITA pancake fight.
