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🗓️ 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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