Bitchy playground dads! Advise!!!

kill then with kindness

it sounds like these dads are projecting some kind of insecurity - so being extra nice will make them feel bad and guilty and either get them to stop interacting all together or change their opinions

or completely opposite and be upfront but obvs more likely to cause arguments that way depending on how you carry yourselves

easiest is to just ignore it but i know it’s easier said than done

They are saying this to his face?

Encourage your husband to just be himself. Sounds like more of an issue inside these other people. My husband is 6’4 and if he’s not smiling people have said he looks intimidating. He’s the most caring and helpful person I know.

I’ve stopped caring about people’s opinions of me, because I know who I am and the people that I want to be around know who I am and that’s all that matters 🤷🏼‍♀️ the people who make those judgements aren’t people I’d want to be friends with so I wouldn’t bother trying to do anything to change their opinions because it doesn’t affect me!

There’s a few people I’ve had to cut out of my life in the last few years, and living in such a small town where rumours spread like wildfire, I used to worry that they’d go around giving their side of the story trying make everyone hate me. But I realised it doesn’t matter because anyone who truly knows me would see right through it 🤷🏼‍♀️

There’s no point trying to please people who have already shown their judgy personalities. I’m sure he’ll make proper friends who’ll be deserving of his time & attention because those guys clearly aren’t

Thanks ladies you’re right! I think I’ve handled the rudeness better because I feel women are more used to being pit against each other so mums being rude to me has slid out of my mind like water off a ducks back, but for a man whose never really been on the receiving end of the bitchiness it’s taken him quite by surprise! I’ll try and keep his spirits high 🤞🏼

My husband would say literally this “what the F*** do I care?” lol because he literally doesn’t give any F***s. There’s freedom in that. Sometimes you have to not care what people think. If they talk about other people, they aren’t good people to start with anyway.

“great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about other people!”...

Honestly i say be loud and proud about who you are. Let them be uncomfortable and judge. Their just scared of what people perceive them as, thats why their all cookie cutter cutouts. Your husband has the audacity to be successful/ himself and it makes them “uncomfortable”. He should be proud with who he is and their miserable for feeling uncomfortable about not being able to do that! Also if they’re from successful families they were probably influenced often to surround themselves with other others like them . Also most people living that lifestyle are in crippling debt just to keep up that image of a lifestyle. Not gonna lie im petty and if i heard that my response would have been “ im glad your intimidated by someone whos himself. 🤣

Keep an eye out for tattooed parents, work trucks, facial piercings, neon hair, all the good stuff. If the mean parents want to act like 13 year olds, then look for your people. Even if not as intense as your husband, I'd guess they wouldn't be bothered about it and probably think it looks rad!

Do absolutely nothing! Sounds like you have a lovely life and husband and it’s a “them” problem.
Their parents should have taught them how don’t judge a book by its cover 😏