{"id":24996,"date":"2025-01-24T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=24996"},"modified":"2025-01-24T21:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T20:02:27","slug":"my-daughter-in-laws-shocking-reaction-to-my-holiday-weight-comment-still-haunts-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=24996","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter-in-Law\u2019s Shocking Reaction to My Holiday Weight Comment Still Haunts Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subject: I made a joke to my daughter-in-law at Christmas dinner, and now I\u2019m wondering if it landed wrong. Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>I think I ruined Christmas. I made a comment to my daughter-in-law, Claire, at dinner: \u2018Looks like someone\u2019s overindulged this holiday! Careful, or you\u2019ll need a new wardrobe.\u2019 She got upset, left the table in tears, and later I found her packing. She said I humiliated her in front of the family and pointed out her body image struggles. Ben, my son, was furious too, saying I always belittle Claire, even if I don\u2019t mean it. They left, and now the whole family\u2019s upset. Did I really mess up that badly? Should I have apologized sooner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject: I made a joke to my daughter-in-law at Christmas dinner, and now I\u2019m wondering if it landed wrong. Thoughts? I think I ruined Christmas. I made a comment to my daughter-in-law, Claire, at dinner: \u2018Looks like someone\u2019s overindulged this holiday! Careful, or you\u2019ll need a new wardrobe.\u2019 She got upset, left the table in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24997,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions\/24997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}