Today, my mother in-law made dessert. It was a beautiful chocolate cake, chocolate cookies, and every other thing had chocolate in it. I'm deathly allergic to chocolate and she knows this. FML
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Today, my mom baked a cake for the whole family. One spent EpiPen later, I found out there were nuts in it, which I'm severely allergic to. My mom's defense was that she thought I'd have "gotten over" my allergy by now. FML
Today, I found out that I'm not actually allergic to chocolate, when my mom freely admitted to me that she made it up when I was a child because she didn't want to share any cookies with me. FML
Today, my mom made my favorite dessert, a pudding. For some reason, she decided to put strawberries in it. She knows I’m allergic to strawberries. She said, “Stop bitching. If you don’t like it, don’t eat it then. Problem solved.” FML
Today, a coworker left a chocolate cake on the "free food" table in the office. I had a slice. She's just called to ask if she left her grandmother's birthday cake at work. She made it from scratch. Now I'm baking a new cake in the office kitchen. FML
Today, I went to the doctor, only to find out I can no longer eat chocolate, my favorite food. When I got home, my boyfriend took the chocolate cake I'd been eating from the fridge, sat down in front of me, and ate the whole thing without breaking eye contact. FML
Today, my mother turned up drunk at my house with a chocolate cake for my 14th birthday. I'm 27, I haven’t seen her in 6 years, I'm allergic to chocolate, and when she saw that I had 2 kids, she wanted to know why I'd bothered, since kids are always "such a disappointment". FML
Today, my mom told me she is serving lasagna and Italian cream cake at my bridal shower. I'm severely lactose intolerant, which I have been telling her for years. She responded by telling me, and I quote, "The food is for the guests." FML
Today, after telling my mother-in-law about my recent miscarriage, she cheerfully made a cake to celebrate. FML
Today, it was my birthday. My only birthday present was a cake that my dad bought from Walmart. Well, it sure looked tasty. The only problem: it had nuts on it. Guess what I'm highly allergic too? At least my dad told me he'd "tell me how it tastes." FML
Today, I got my mom (who is a diabetic) a set of sugar-free chocolates for Mother's Day. Everything was fine on that day, and my mom decided to share them since I bought a good sized box. I was perfectly fine, but my mom had explosive diarrhea for the rest of the day. I'll never buy THOSE again. FML
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sarahperez_fml 12
She must hate you a lot.
JasonUMN 15
Every desert was chocolate? I'll be right back, I have a trip to the Sahara scheduled.
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Comments (181)
godbieveryone 9
Shes not a mother-in-law, shes a MONSTER-in-law
Larsh 4
Offer to carry out to the table and... Oops?
furubafan74 18
FYL for being allergic to chocolate
worldclassrager 41
Jesus what a bitch...hope you can find something to compete per se when everything is cut up..
Etweens96 25
My dad has had problems with his mother-in law for over thirty years. I read this to him and his advice to you is take your wife and RUN! She's trying to kill you!
KorinoTsubasa23 9
Food allergies suck so bad, OP. I'm sorry you had to deal with this. Food allergies aren't a game and people can die from a simple mistake. This clearly wasn't a mistake. If you were a part of my family I would have gone out of my way to make you something nice that you could actually enjoy. Two of my sisters have recently discovered an allergy to gluten and dairy and one of them is allergic to egg yolk, but they both very much love my pecan pie and I didn't want them to feel left out of the festivities so I made sure to make a pie they could also enjoy because their looks of happiness are worth more to me than the extra time it took to prepare a dessert they could also enjoy.
Panndama 7
You poor thing. Just being deathly allergic to chocolate is enough for an FML....
winston5 6
She must love you.
glabberfasted 16
I always feel bad when I meet someone allergic to chocolate, because I hate the stuff. I wish I could trade with you, OP
musikchik 6
You should say something in front of everyone, sweetly. "Um... does there happen to be any dessert that is not chocolate? Ya know, since I'm deathly allergic to chocolate." I believe this would make her look like a big bitch.