Man’s Wife Is Mad He Didn’t Stop Son’s Girlfriend’s PDA After Car Accident

A man’s teenage son survived a near-fatal car accident, but his wife seemed more worried about their boy’s girlfriend kissing him.

The father, 50, turned to Reddit’s “Am I the A——” forum for advice after his son, 17, recently “got into a car accident’ with a drunken driver.

“I am very thankful that he is alive, obviously, but his car is totaled (the drunken driver was driving a pickup, and my son drives a small old convertible, most likely the reason for the amount of damage) and he is fairly injured, i.e. multiple breaks, lots of stitches, etc., and is currently recovering,” he wrote.

He added that his wife, 45, and daughter, 14, arrived at the hospital before his son’s girlfriend. Once the girlfriend arrived, she couldn’t hold back her emotions.

“When she came in she ran to him in his hospital bed and started hugging and kissing him,” he described, adding that the kisses were mostly on his lips and other places on his face.

“She stayed for most of the night, checking up on him and being supportive, and I was happy that my son and his gf had such a good relationship,” he said.

The man went on to say that as he was driving back home from the hospital, his wife took exception to the PDA between their son and his girlfriend. She was also mad at him for not saying anything to the girlfriend.

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“My wife said that it felt weird seeing that, especially in front of his family. I said that he was going off to college regardless, and that she was being a really nice partner, and that night showed us how much she truly cared for him,” he recounted to the forum. “She rushed off of work to get there and was still wearing her work clothes as she got there.”

His wife was not swayed. “My wife started getting angrier and said that she thought it was gross and that I should just ask her to leave sometime,” he wrote.

The husband objected, and told his wife “that I’m not telling my hospitalized son that I’m taking away something that clearly makes him happy. She told me it was gross and that I needed to put a stop to it. I told her she was worrying about the wrong thing and that anything that brought our son comfort was good.”

The wife insisted that he “step up and do my job,” and her words have echoed in his head. Users on Reddit went “on a limb”, claiming that “your wife identifies as a ‘boy mom’ but she needed to accept her son was growing up.

Unless the teenagers were “tonguing each other,” there was no reason for her reaction, others said.

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“She wanted to be the main one he turned to, who got attention for being so attentive, etc. Time to grow up and realize he is growing up. If he had passed, at least the Dad would be glad his son got a chance to be loved,” a reader wrote.

Another wondered why the mom didn’t make her feelings known to her son and his girlfriend.

“She was very capable of speaking up herself if it ‘offended’ her so much. Pop’s not the only parent. Or does she just want you to be the bad guy?” another person wondered.