Mum's bawdy jokes ruin her daughter's relationship

We’ve all been left red-faced by an embarrassing move by our parents at one stage, but one mum’s total lack of boundaries left her daughter’s relationship in pieces.

The crushed woman took to Reddit to vent her frustration, after her mother’s behaviour wrecked havoc on a new relationship.

“My mother has always been one to seek validation from others,” she began the thread, explaining her 53-year-old mum has a nasty habit of dropping suggestive comments at inappropriate times.

When the woman took her new boyfriend to meet her family she was understandably nervous at how her mum would respond, and as it turns out she was right to be.

She chose to bring the boyfriend along on a trip to the airport to pick up her sister with her mum, dad, and brother in tow.

It was en route that things went quickly south.

“(We) leave and everything is fine for a few minutes until my mom starts making awful sex jokes,” she explained.

“I can’t even remember them all, but I do recall her saying something to him about paying “another way” and implied sex and blow jobs.”

Desperate to nip the situation in the bud, the woman tried to shut down the conversation unsuccessfully.

“I apologized (sic) to my boyfriend and asked my mom to stop. She didn’t,” she said.

Humiliated, the girlfriend blocked her mother’s number but hadn’t realised that the embarrassment incident had done irreparable damage.

“I have apologized (sic) so much to my boyfriend for my family and he told me that he’s sorry, but he isn’t sure if the relationship will go further and needs time to think,” she said.

Whose to blame?

While online users were sympathetic, more than one pointed out that such a judgmental response may put the blame back on the boyfriend rather than the mum.

“I really can't understand why your boyfriend would break up with you because your mother made inappropriate jokes,” one shrewd observer pointed out.

“Sorry, but this does not sound like he is on the same page about this relationship as you.”

“Your boyfriend possibly breaking up with you over your mom making dirty jokes is super lame of him,” another said.

Others however were quick to call a spade a spade and identify the sexual harassment that had taken place.

“NTA (not the a**hole) for blocking your mother what she did was inexcusable. I am disappointed by the amount of people downplaying her behavior (sic) or insulting your boyfriend for possibly ending the relationship,” one said.

“Her behavior (sic) was totally inappropriate,” another concurred.

Nothing like some casual harassment to make a new beau’s introduction to the family go absolutely haywire.

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