Mum bans family from Christmas dinner in disagreement over unvaccinated friend

While many people won’t be seeing their loved ones this Christmas, one woman has expressed her fury over her mum’s ‘narcissistic’ stance on the ongoing Omicron crisis.

Going under the pseudonym ‘BloodyC19Xmas’ on parenting website and forum Mumsnet, the woman explained that she and her husband will be catering for their friend on Christmas Eve because it will be their first Christmas since a ‘nasty divorce’, and so were ‘dreading’ waking up on Christmas morning alone without their kids. 

However, upon finding out that their friend is unvaccinated, the woman’s mother gave them an ultimatum where they must decide between hosting their friend or hosting her on Christmas Day. 

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She wrote: “My mum discovered my friend is unvaxxed and absolutely fair enough she said they couldn’t go to her house so we changed plans so friend could come to us overnight on Xmas eve and we could go to my mums house Xmas lunchtime after friend went home to pick up their kids.

“Now with omicron accelerating, mum has lost it, she’s completely paranoid and convinced she’s going to die if she gets it. In spite of her having three vaccines already.”

The woman went on to explain that her kids are young and ‘will be gutted’ to miss Christmas with their grandparents, but couldn’t help but be ‘fuming’ considering she and her husband work around unvaccinated people ‘all the time’. 

She wrote: “My friend said they’d have a Covid test before they came to visit and we said we’d have one before we went to mums so I really can’t see the huge issue. (Besides a narcissist trying to control the narrative).

“Aibu (Am I being unreasonable)?”

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The woman was inundated with responses from shocked Mumsnet users, with one person highlighting how her unvaccinated schoolchildren will be mixing with the grandma anyway, writing: “Surely there’s far more chance of her catching it from them than from you after you meet with someone the day before (would you be contagious that quickly anyway?)”

Another person noted: “I’d tell her it’s fine you will stay home with your friend, see how quickly she changes her tune.. As above, you can still transmit it vaxxed or not”.

Though some people were a little less sympathetic towards the woman, with one person siding with her mum and writing: “If your mum is uncomfortable, your mum is uncomfortable, she’s not being unreasonable. You’ve said yourself she is clinically vulnerable.

“I have various family members, some vulnerable some not, some hyper-vigilant some not so fussed. I respect each one’s comfort level.”

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