Re: Husbands, Wives, Mil(s), Dil’s etc. The Married family dynamics:
Even though in back of my mind I am skeptical that your post being very well thought out and planned to get the expected response, but I will play along.
You have not made specific comments on what I said in your original thread and the post I made in response to your post here.
All you have done so far is to say what you want to say, to make people go with the idea that MIL should be outcast and your role is submissive and your husband should earn brownie points to support you at any level and any cost since husband and wife (as some societies believe) should be able to live isolated once married to each other and anyone who interferes with their affairs is evil.
OK. With that even being negated,
Your MIL has been experiencing arguments and yelling from your husband for a while as your previous post says.
She was then yelled at according to you on Eid day menu by your husband.
She slapped him. An over-reaction. But this slap did not come out of blue or vacuum.
He has been disrespecting her periodically and has not been acting as rational person being a son in the past.
Being the mother, she must have felt it was time to show him by other means he was out of line consistently.
He deserved to be slapped by her judgment for repeatedly being disrespectful.
** Men should not yell at their mothers on a matter as trivial as picking on the menu for Eid dinner. I am sorry. That is what I think and believe.
**I already gave you some points to think about why it was not such a big deal for you and your husband to make a drama out of his mother telling you to make something other than what was planned. Please read above if you missed it.