Wrong generalization. There are very rude people out there. Some of them happen to be in-laws.

I wish I had more likes to give your comment. You're completely correct.

If she's just a crazy ass monster in law then OP just needs to press charges and get her out of their life for awhile. It takes quite a bit of force to break someones arm. She sounds like she needs to be put away.

well if you unacamble the words Mother In law it does spell Woman Hitler!

I think you need to take sex ed again

I fail to see how you think that has anything to with this. OP's mother-in-law had nothing to do with "the production" of the baby itself, and the fact that she (likely, though for all we know OP's wife could be adopted) gave birth to the woman who had the baby has nothing to do with the baby's existence beyond being part of biology. And regardless, physically injuring someone over who gets to hold the baby first is an extremely overbearing and irresponsible action. The mother-in-law's behavior in this situation is by no means acceptable, nor justified. In short, what she did wasn't okay, and nothing makes it so.

#7 Maybe next time you should use your brain before commenting

What the fuck does accepting it have to do with anything? Where does it even say he accepted that? Oh, it DOESN'T. It says she BROKE HIS ARM shoving him out of the way. Which, since he would have had to get that bone set and a cast put on before he could hold the baby, let alone the complications from having a cast and trying to hold a baby means they are not only is probably going to have limited bonding with their kid for the first two to three months, but that the miter is going to wind up having to mostly care for the baby on HER own.

I think you missed where they said "IF"

The point of my comment is that IF doesn't fucking matter. HIS ARM WAS BROKE. He physically COULDN'T hold he baby. It doesn't matter if he "accepted" the MIL going Full Bitch mode because his ARM is BROKEN. Saying "if he accepted that" doesn't make any damned sense when he no longer had a CHOICE.

We all know what he typed. What I meant by "accepted" was for his situation. Yeah, his arm was broken. We read that. And I think as readers we've all come to the same conclusions you've mentioned in your response, because like you, we also have firm grasps of the obvious. He doesn't/didn't have to accept the situation or her behavior. I haven't read through the comments, so I don't know if he responded. I wonder how it turned out. For me, no one would come before my family, especially my child. That mother in law would've been tossed out of the room and seen her grandchild another time. If that makes me a butthole, oh well. And yeah, I could've been a bit clearer within my comment I guess, but I wasn't. Oh well. Thank you for your response! It was delightful ?