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Am I the Jerk?

How I Ruined Family Christmas - r/AITA

Am I the Jerk?

youtube.com/amithejerk

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0

Am I the jerk for destroying family Christmas?

0:03.3

I've been with my wife for about five years married for two and we have a one-year-old son.

0:08.3

My mom is a type of person who doesn't like change and doesn't like new people and keeps

0:12.3

to herself. That being said, she isn't controlling and doesn't seem to care what her kids do with

0:16.4

their lives, but she doesn't like when she feels things are pushed on her. She is also someone who

0:21.4

will keep doing what she does without thinking. So, when we continue to buy me lavish gifts,

0:26.5

but nothing for my wife or baby, I didn't think it was malicious, but it hurt my wife

0:31.5

that even after marriage, my mom wasn't buying her gifts. I sat down with my mom and I explained

0:37.3

this. My mom was totally shocked and couldn't believe that my wife expected a gift. I tried to

0:42.6

explain that my wife is part of the family now, but my mom was upset and said that she has three

0:47.5

kids and shouldn't have to pretend my wife is her kid. She seemed really surprised, so I do

0:53.2

think that that was genuine and she kept saying how mortified she would be if her husband expected

0:57.9

gifts from her parents and that she wouldn't be with such a quote entitled child. Finally,

1:04.0

I told my mom to stop. It is okay if she has a difference of opinion, but she is hurting my wife

1:09.3

and it needs to stop. My mom thought about it for a couple of months, talked to my sisters who

1:14.1

said she should just suck it up and buy gifts for our partners and her ultimate decision was that

1:19.0

she didn't want to host Christmas anymore. I thought she was bluffing, so I ignored it for months.

1:25.1

I realized she was being serious and said fine, we can do it at my house, but she didn't want to come.

1:32.7

I mailed her a small gift as a test. She mailed it back. Finally, I was like, screw it and did

1:38.4

Christmas with my wife, sisters and their partners. Both of my sisters were miserable the entire time

1:44.7

and one cried, which I thought was crazily dramatic. My mom was on vacation and had her phone off.

1:50.8

The sister who cried finally blew up that my wife and I ruined Christmas and ruined our family

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