Mom Bans Alcohol For Her Son’s 18-Year-Old Girlfriend, Family Drama Ensues
Austėja Bliujūtė and Monika Pašukonytė
Everybody has a right to make rules in their home and nobody can do anything against it. My house – my rules, that’s a very frequently heard phrase. Well, probably that phrase is most often said by parents when they don’t want to argue with their kids, so they just play the card that “As long as you are under my roof – the rules are mine.” And the worst thing is that it’s probably right and you can’t really do anything, just be mad at them if you want to.
One Reddit user shared her story to one of the most popular and judgmental communities asking its members if she in fact was being a jerk for not allowing her son’s girlfriend to drink alcohol after her mom requested that she not do so. The post received quite a lot of attention and now it has over 6K upvotes and 1.3K comments.
The author starts her story by saying that her 25-year-old son has a girlfriend who is 18 years old. She said that she is nice, but childish. However, she couldn’t spend Christmas with her family, so OP’s son asked if he could invite her to be with them. Later on, the author received a message from the son’s girlfriend’s mom thanking her for welcoming her daughter, and they started talking.
The girlfriend’s mom expressed her concerns about her drinking in college and asked the OP not to let her drink alcohol at dinner as well. Later on, OP informed her son and his girlfriend about this, to which the young woman was surprised, but everything went well. Well, until the next day, when OP’s son called and said that she was being rude and shouldn’t have treated his girlfriend like a child.
