An horrified married woman has opened up about her marriage and made the startling revelation about how she caught her own mother-in-law making incestuous moves on her husband.
For the record, emotional incest, also known as covert incest, is a form of abuse involving parents treating their children like romantic partners.
Although it doesn’t refer to s*xual abuse, there are elements of blurred boundaries and unhealthy interpersonal dynamics which make it a particularly loaded term.
On Reddit, the 30-year-old explained that her husband’s mum has never been ‘weird’ towards him throughout their six-year relationship, and ‘she doesn’t act like this’ with her two other children.
She noticed things changing when she announced she was pregnant in December last year and her mother-in-law began ‘showering’ her husband with gifts, talking about the couple’s bedroom life in relation to the conception (including saying ‘Well clearly you like bending people over’) and calling her son babe, baby, and daddy.
‘It was never an excitement over her being a grandmother,’ said the woman on Reddit, adding that her mother-in-law told people she was ‘indifferent’ about the pregnancy and showed up unannounced while she was in labour.
‘She tried making my husband sit on the couch with her while I was having contractions because she “needed to make sure he was good” and I watched her rub/squeeze his inner thighs multiple times,’ said the post.