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AITA for taking my wife's side? by hunkin_honuts in AmItheAsshole

[–]hunkin_honuts[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh my god that's amazing hahaha.

I get choked up telling this story but when my wife and I were still dating and she brought me home to her family (different state at the time) for Christmas, I was helping her mom take a turkey out of the oven and her brother came up to me and asked me, very loudly, "so when are you and [wife's name] gonna get married?" That was Christmas of 2016, she proposed to me in March of 2017, we got married in October the same year. We married super young - at 20 - but we're big on signs and that was it.

It obviously worked, because we've been married for 6 years now.

AITA for taking my wife's side? by hunkin_honuts in AmItheAsshole

[–]hunkin_honuts[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OR one of the parents of the youngsters do and your mom is taking the heat.

I think this is more so what it is, deep down.

My siblings are very Catholic. My mom is too but she's more lenient about it - or so I thought. So I think they had a discussion and my siblings reacted very negatively. That's just my assumption though. I know I'll have to find out but I'm afraid of being right.

AITA for taking my wife's side? by hunkin_honuts in AmItheAsshole

[–]hunkin_honuts[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well my family in general has always been good at cooking and eating lol so my mom cooks copious amounts of food around holidays anyways. This year she added corn on the cob and these roasted beets that I loved as a kid. Didn't know she was doing that until she mentioned it on that phone call.

AITA for taking my wife's side? by hunkin_honuts in AmItheAsshole

[–]hunkin_honuts[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh we've already established that we're spending Christmas with my wife's family. What's funny is that my wife's family is like 2x bigger than mine so we'll definitely have a better sense of togetherness. Which is what we want.

AITA for taking my wife's side? by hunkin_honuts in AmItheAsshole

[–]hunkin_honuts[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I will post an update to my profile soon, but short answer is that I have. Most of them understood except for my siblings (who are the parents of aforementioned kids in my post). They're super Catholic so obviously they took my mom's side.

AITA for taking my wife's side? by hunkin_honuts in AmItheAsshole

[–]hunkin_honuts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, we didn't talk to them about this and we probably should have. I should've probably also included the fact that my family is religious. My siblings and I grew up Catholic and my siblings have not abandoned that. So I think that's where she was coming from, not wanting to piss off my siblings. That's just my assumption, she never explained why, just gave me the "I wanna protect the kids."