My wife (29) slapped me (28M), Help!

I’ve posted elsewhere and some great help but could do with help from someone who could relate with me a bit more

Let me start by saying that I’m (28M) of an Indian background whilst my wife (29F) is of a Pakistani background and my FIL never approved of me nor of our marriage.

My FIL has tried to kept it civil with me but he always manages to make sly comments or digs about how I’m not worthy of his daughter, how I’m weak, how I’m useless etc.

I have tried to build a relationship with him over the past 5 years since I’ve been married however to no avail, nowadays I limit myself from meeting/talking to him.

My wife knows exactly how he is with me and does support me in private however she never stands up for in front of her father. I’ve told her plenty a time how this bothers me yet she just brushes it off and I let it go as, like I said, limit the occurrences between the FIL and I.

Come to tonight, my wife’s parents invited us to their place for dinner, since we hadn’t met them for several months, my wife insisted we both go and try to make the best of it.

I reluctantly agreed and went, at this point let me mention that in their house lives also my BIL and SIL. We all sat for the meal and the snide remarks started from FIL, about how I didn’t even check up on him during the pandemic and how I’m a terrible SIL.

I sucked it up with a smile on my face even thought his comments continued through the evening.

Anyway, we were all sat around the tv when in front of everyone, he mentioned how I’m such loser that it’s good that I can’t have kids.

This was something I thought only my wife knew but how wrong was I, we were trying for a baby, after multiple attempts and trips to the doctor, we learnt I had a extremely low sperm count.

When my FIL mentioned this in front of everyone, I was surprised, angry and upset, a whole cluster of emotions. I lashed out shouting out ‘you are an absolute bastard, you...’

Before I could even finish it off my face was shifted to the right by a slap from my wife.

I completely froze, I couldn’t believe what had happened. After possibly the longest 30 seconds of my life, I got up, left their house and came home.

It’s been a few hours and honestly I’ve just been in bed since I’ve come home, I’m honestly shocked, I have no idea what I’m feeling, how I’m feeling, what to do.

My wife, BIL and SIL have called numerous times, I’m leaving it to ring, I honestly don’t know what is happening in my life right now.

tl;dr FIL hates me, said something hurtful, I lashed out and wife slapped me.

Submitted April 07, 2021 at 05:12PM by ThrowRA02737819 https://ift.tt/3wCSC23