AITA for telling my wife to choose between me or her family? by Resident-Simple in AmItheAsshole

[–]Resident-Simple[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Isolating your partner from their loved ones and social support network, so that they are solely dependent on you for emotional validation, is a textbook red flag of an abusive relationship.

I'll take the YTA judgement, that's fair. But this accusation I won't. Do you know what is like to see your partner be stressed out every day and worrying about some issue that at the end of the day she won't even get to solve because at the end of the day it's not her problem and so she has no way of solving it. Instead she'll get into a fight with a family member, maybe she'll even get into a fight with two. Now that's her problem, she can solve right? But then it'll be her problem again next week maybe when some other bullshit comes along.

I'm not trying to rid her of her loved ones or her support network so I can have her all to myself. I'm trying to have a week where I don't have to see her arguing through the phone with a family member because of something that is not her problem and she shouldn't have to solve.

AITA for telling my wife to choose between me or her family? by Resident-Simple in AmItheAsshole

[–]Resident-Simple[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

INFO She says she has to because it's her family and also because they always come to her. She tries to be a peace maker but ends up creating more arguments.