TIFU by greenlighting a NSFW gift to my husband from his mom.

This FU happened a few Christmas’s ago, but the fallout finally hit this year.

My MIL likes to get themed family gifts every year. Matching PJs, matching lap desks for the couch, etc. A few years ago, she texted the group chat (which my husband refuses to open or check) that she was buying everyone a personalized couch pillow. The kind that hugs you, and has pockets for remote/phone/etc.

She sent the options she thought my husband and I would like and asked us to choose. They were tiny thumbnail pictures but I did my best. My husband loves anime, so when she suggested the anime one for him, I said absolutely, without looking closely at the pillow.

Christmas Day arrived, we open our pillows, and my husband goes silent. He mumbles “thank you” and takes the pillow straight to our bedroom. When we watched movies later, MIL asked why he wasn’t using his pillow. He babbled a bit about not wanting the dogs to get fur on it, and changed the subject.

That night when we went to bed, he showed me the pillow and said “look at the character. What do you see?”

“A happy anime girl?” I replied cautiously.

“No babe. It’s a hentai girl. That’s a pillow covered in O faces.”

Now I’m no internet noob, I know what hentai is. But I didn’t catch it AT ALL. In my shame, we never told MIL why the pillow stayed in the bedroom, and left it at “dog fur.”

This Christmas, it all came out. MIL expressed her sadness that my husband didn’t like his pillow, because she never saw him using it. For some reason, he blurted out that he loved it, but it wasn’t appropriate to use during family time.

We had to explain the whole story. My very religious MIL looked like she swallowed nails.

And now she knows she got her son a porn pillow… and I told her to do it.

TL;DR Religious MIL found out that I told her to get her son a porn pillow for Christmas.

Edit: the pillow in question “anime pillow”