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<p>From <a data-click-id="user" data-testid="post_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Flashy_Focus4824/">Flashy_Focus4824</a>:</p><h2>AITA for asking my DIL to stop making social media posts that make me look bad?</h2><blockquote> <p>I have a son, Ryan (m22). Ryan has a wife, Holly (f22). They got married and moved in together around 4 months ago after dating for 3 years. I&#39;m really happy for them. There&#39;s just a small problem, though.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Holly has recently started making posts on social media with jokes about how horrible mothers-in-law are, all the time. When seeing them, I thought I did something to upset Holly. I asked her about it and she insisted that I hadn&#39;t upset her, and that she just posts them because she thinks they&#39;re funny.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I asked Ryan about it and he said that Holly never seemed upset at me and told me I&#39;m overthinking it. But Holly keeps making these posts.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The rest of my family have even been asking me if everything is okay between me, Ryan and Holly because they&#39;ve seen the posts too. The last straw was when Holly made a post about &#39;arguments with monsters-in-law&#39;. Now everyone in my family thinks I argued with Holly when that didn&#39;t even happen.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I asked Holly about it again and she said that once again, she just posted it because she thought it was funny, not anything actually personal to me. I told Holly that she&#39;s making me uncomfortable and that she&#39;s making my family think I&#39;m being horrible to her. Holly said that&#39;s not her problem, and that people need to learn how to take a joke.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I asked Holly to please stop making these posts because people aren&#39;t going to interpret them that way. Holly said I&#39;m being unreasonable and told me I can&#39;t tell her what to do, and said I&#39;m a bossy jerk.</p> </blockquote><p>Questions, answers and comments:</p><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/yachtiewannabe/">yachtiewannabe</a></p><blockquote> <p>Are these the only &#39;joke&#39; posts that she shared?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Flashy_Focus4824/">Flashy_Focus4824</a></p><blockquote> <p>She posts other memes but the &quot;horrible MIL&quot; ones are the only ones she posts that are at someone else&#39;s expense. She doesn&#39;t make posts joking about hating her parents or my son or anything like that.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GreenRedCrescent/">GreenRedCrescent</a></p><blockquote> <p>NTA. Holly is 100% doing this on purpose. If she has an issue with you, she should talk to you about it like a reasonable adult instead of making passive-aggressive posts.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Also, allowing everyone else in your family to believe that you had an argument with her that didn&#39;t happen is incredibly manipulative on Holly&#39;s part. 🚩</p> </blockquote><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SpecialistAfter511/">SpecialistAfter511</a> says:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>NTA she knows what she&rsquo;s doing. It&rsquo;s attention seeking. I would stop talking to her about it. If she wants to continue doing something she knows hurts her husbands moms feelings then she deals with the consequences of a change in the relationship.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>If I posted memes about cheating husbands regularly people are going to start thinking somethings going on. One time is funny..a pattern? People notice.</p> </blockquote><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Similar_Pineapple418/">Similar_Pineapple418</a> says:</p><blockquote> <p>NTA. Holly sounds like an immature social media addict. She wants the attention playing the role gives and gives no thought to the impact of her actions. Shes a nightmare and there&rsquo;s nothing you can do about.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman asks what to do about daughter-in-law making her look bad on social media.

From Flashy_Focus4824:AITA for asking my DIL to stop making social media posts that make me look bad? I have a son, Ryan (m22). Ryan has a wife, Holly (f22). They got married and moved in together around 4 months ago after dating for 3 years. I&#39;m really happy for them. There&#39;s just a small problem, though.  Holly has recently started making posts on social media with jokes about how horrible mothers-in-law are, all the time. When seeing them, I thought I did something to upset Holly. I asked her about it and she insisted that I hadn&#39;t upset her, and that she just posts them because she thinks they&#39;re funny.  I asked Ryan about it and he said that Holly never seemed upset at me and told me I&#39;m overthinking it. But Holly keeps making these posts.  The rest of my family have even been asking me if everything is okay between me, Ryan and Holly because they&#39;ve seen the posts too. The last straw was when Holly made a post about &#39;arguments with monsters-in-law&#39;. Now everyone in my family thinks I argued with Holly when that didn&#39;t even happen.  I asked Holly about it again and she said that once again, she just posted it because she thought it was funny, not anything actually personal to me. I told Holly that she&#39;s making me uncomfortable and that she&#39;s making my family think I&#39;m being horrible to her. Holly said that&#39;s not her problem, and that people need to learn how to take a joke.  I asked Holly to please stop making these posts because people aren&#39;t going to interpret them that way. Holly said I&#39;m being unreasonable and told me I can&#39;t tell her what to do, and said I&#39;m a bossy jerk. Questions, answers and comments:yachtiewannabe Are these the only &#39;joke&#39; posts that she shared? Flashy_Focus4824 She posts other memes but the &quot;horrible MIL&quot; ones are the only ones she posts that are at someone else&#39;s expense. She doesn&#39;t make posts joking about hating her parents or my son or anything like that.  GreenRedCrescent NTA. Holly is 100% doing this on purpose. If she has an issue with you, she should talk to you about it like a reasonable adult instead of making passive-aggressive posts.  Also, allowing everyone else in your family to believe that you had an argument with her that didn&#39;t happen is incredibly manipulative on Holly&#39;s part. 🚩 SpecialistAfter511 says: NTA she knows what she&rsquo;s doing. It&rsquo;s attention seeking. I would stop talking to her about it. If she wants to continue doing something she knows hurts her husbands moms feelings then she deals with the consequences of a change in the relationship.  If I posted memes about cheating husbands regularly people are going to start thinking somethings going on. One time is funny..a pattern? People notice. Similar_Pineapple418 says: NTA. Holly sounds like an immature social media addict. She wants the attention playing the role gives and gives no thought to the impact of her actions. Shes a nightmare and there&rsquo;s nothing you can do about. 

From Flashy_Focus4824:  AITA for asking my DIL to stop making social media posts that make me look bad?   I have a son, Ryan (m22). Ryan has a wife, Holly (f22). They got married and moved in together around 4 months ago after dating for 3...