This Woman Went Home And Sobbed After Seeing Her Mother-In-Law At The Airport, And People Have Big Things To Say

Sometimes I think my life is wild, but then I read an Am I the Asshole post, and I'm like:

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In case you aren't familiar with the subreddit, it's basically a space where people can post about their most pressing interpersonal conflicts, and then other people can then decide on who the "asshole" is in the given situation.

Recently, a wife wondered if she was in the wrong for ditching a vacation with her husband after seeing her mother-in-law at the airport, and I MUST know what you all think.

Here's the situation, as told by the wife, u/RoadIsland123:

"I (F30) don't have the best relationship with my husband's mom. Since day one she tried to make remarks and compare me to her."

"So, anyways! My husband and I took two weeks off work to go visit some places out of the country — tourism, in other words. Thing is I was the one who saved up for and arranged for the trip (my husband was responsible for booking the tickets). My husband's mom wanted to come along and threw temper tantrums when I said no."

"She called, texted, sent people to talk to me into letting her come, even threatened to call the police and make some complaint up to get us to stay if she can't come. My husband said we should just take her, but I told him he was wrong to tell her about the trip in the first place."

"He gave me an ultimatum. He said he wouldn't go if she can't come, and I told him I'd gladly call his bluff, which made him take his words back and say, 'FINE! I will tell her to stop it because we won't take her.'"

"Things got quieter, suspiciously quieter. The day of the trip came, and we got to the airport at 2 p.m. My husband was walking ahead of me and was looking left and right like he was looking for someone. I asked him, but he didn't respond. He led me to the waiting area, and first thing I saw was his mom standing there with her luggage. I froze in my spot, I felt a cold wave washing over me, and I was fuming inside."

"She and my husband were hugging. That's when I quietly turned around and started walking toward the exit. My husband followed me while shouting at me to stop. He tried to stop me, but I told him off in the harshest way possible. He tried to say I was overreacting and that his mom was there 'anyway,' and I should let it go and not mess the trip up for us. I told him he and his mom could still go and that I was going home."

"I went home and sobbed into my dog's fur for several minutes. It turned out he booked her a ticket without me knowing. An hour later he came home yelling and raging about how pathetic and spiteful I was to walk out and go home and ruin the trip last minute."

"I told him he caused this to happen. He said that I was being so hard on his mom it's ridiculous. I refused to fight anymore, but he kept on berating me, then called my family to tell them that the trip was cancelled and that it was because of me. My family said that I shouldn't have ruined it for myself and should've sucked it up and done my best to enjoy. Did I really overreact?"

I don't know about you all, but after reading that, I'm sitting here like:

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People in the comments definitely had big thoughts about the situation, too. Mostly everyone was in agreement that the wife was not the asshole, including a user who goes by u/PeanutButter_Toast_:

"I don’t wanna call the divorce card but...divorce. You told your boundaries; you said no. She crossed it. Your husband told you he would tell her no; he lied. He tried to pin you in a corner by not saying anything and bringing her anyways and got upset you refused to be a part of his little trap?? And then to berate you?? He’s not a good man. He needs to go."

Another user who goes by u/Otaku-San617 agreed that the wife was not in the wrong and had this to say about the husband:

"He’s gaslighting you. You know the truth, and he’s telling you that you’re wrong. He’s trying to make you doubt yourself. It’s a kind of abuse."

Someone else, u/potatoyuzu, brought up a point that I hadn't even considered:

"Also. Let’s not forget that if OP’s money was used, they also technically stole from OP to book an extra ticket."

And u/PolyPolyam was certainly on the wife's side — they just had one qualm about the situation:

"Sometimes the divorce card needs to come out. And this is one of them.

Only part of this I don't agree with... OP should have gone to the ticket booth, gotten her ticket changed for anywhere else, and gone to enjoy herself alone. Let husband and his mother have their romantic time together because it sounds like he married his mother."

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