– “Mom, this is my fiancée Christina. I hope you will like each other. We are planning to start a family,” I said the first time I brought my girlfriend to meet my mother.
Christina was shy, afraid to look up. The atmosphere was very tense. The girl wanted to make a good impression on her mother. She kept the conversation going, did not interrupt, and asked her questions in return. Although her mother also felt confused, she was much more confident than Christina. She talked about the meals she had been cooking all day, about our cat Luisa, about everyday life.
My mother liked my girl’s modesty. She listened to Christina with interest. I was very happy that they managed to find a common language. But when we sat down at the table, I saw how uncomfortable Christina felt. She looked at me from time to time as if she wanted to say something. The girl did not eat anything from the table. Her mother noticed this. She had been standing at the stove all day, cooking, wanting to surprise my girlfriend, but for some reason she didn’t want to eat anything. My mother set the table with a lot of dishes. But my girlfriend only tried the salad.
That’s when my mom said:
– “Christina, eat. It’s scary to look at you. You’re so thin. What do you even eat?
– “You’ll forgive me, of course, but I don’t eat this kind of food,” my girlfriend replied, “everything here is too high in calories. You need to take care of your health and not abuse such dishes. You have your dinner, and I’ll wait in the room. Enjoy your dinner!
Mom turned pale. She waited until Christina left the room and then pounced on me with her questions:
– “Son, tell me, what did I do wrong? Everything here is homemade – pies with peas, olivier, potatoes with meat, sausage, cheese and cake. Does she eat anything but vegetables? What kind of wife will she make? Oh, woe is me!
I tried to calm my mom down, but she couldn’t stop herself:
– “I understand, everyone likes their own thing. But you could have eaten fruit. Why get up from the table right in the middle of dinner? It’s just rude. I’ve been cooking in the kitchen since morning, doing my best, and she won’t eat, you see. If I had warned her, I would have prepared other dishes. Why didn’t you say anything?
I tried to explain to my mother that Christina eats differently.
– I tried, and she still dares to tell me what I should feed my son!
Then my mother threw her fork across the table and left the house so as not to say anything else. I knew that my mom had a temper. When she gets into a temper, it’s better not to touch her.
– I don’t think my girlfriend said anything like that. The only thing is that maybe I really should have warned my mom that Christina was trying to eat right. Honestly, I had no idea. I didn’t expect such behavior from my mom at the first meeting.
Now she will definitely not forget this and will be offended for a long time.
