{"id":59886,"date":"2020-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/59886\/20-things-that-will-break-a-lebanese-mothers-heart"},"modified":"2020-04-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:00:00","slug":"20-things-that-will-break-a-lebanese-mothers-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59886\/20-things-that-will-break-a-lebanese-mothers-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Things That Will Break A Lebanese Mother&#8217;s Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You think your high school breakup was painful? Try being a Lebanese mother going through one of these things. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>1. When none of her children aspire to be engineers, doctors, or lawyers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/AG4JYHjr4goVO\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>2. When you criticize her food.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>3. When you lose her Tupperware.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gifer.com\/8DfR.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>4. When you have ambitions beyond simply getting married.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>5. When she&#8217;s telling a story and you correct her in front of people.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gifimage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/death-stare-gif-7.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>6. When no one offers to help her around the house.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>7. When you don&#8217;t introduce her to the person you&#8217;re seeing. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gifer.com\/K2fY.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>8. When you don&#8217;t accept her follow request on Instagram. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>9. When she tries to inquire about your personal life and you shut her out.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/3oriO8vwmRIZO6kcNO\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>10. When she cooks for the family but everyone chooses to eat out<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>11. When you answer back to her in front of people.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/l49JDE3osLyBDee5O\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>12. When you choose to move abroad for a better future.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  How dare you?<\/p>\n<p>  <b>13. When you refuse to meet someone she&#8217;s trying to set you up with. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media0.giphy.com\/media\/7ycl4jNeyCn2U\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>14. When she asks &#8220;fi hada hek hek?&#8221; and you say no.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>15. When her first granddaughter is not named after her.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amithirty.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/offense-taken.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>16. When she tries to recreate your restaurant&#8217;s favorite dish and you don&#8217;t like it.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>17. When you choose to hang out with your friends instead of spending time with her.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/images\/a4e1aa938da39ed9b18b5442380d41ce\/tenor.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>18. When you don&#8217;t like her Facebook status.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>19. When you refuse to wear that ugly sweater she got you. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gifimage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/im-offended-gif-5.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>20. When you don&#8217;t let her show you off in front of her friends.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You think your high school breakup was painful? Try being a Lebanese mother going through one of these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":436243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-59886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[72],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>20 Things That Will Break A Lebanese Mother&#039;s Heart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You think your high school breakup was painful? 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