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Am I the butthole for calling my wife unreasonable for backing out of spending Christmas with my family

after my mother rejected her cookie sample? All right, this post says 23,000 upvotes,

and this title is incredibly tame, so I'm hoping this takes a crazy turn.

For every holiday, my mother would ask the woman in the family, my sisters, sister-in-law,

my wife, my female cousins to send in samples of the desserts they planned to bring to the

celebration for testing, and to see if those desserts could make it to the food menu?

What? Okay, we're already getting into crazy territory.

What? My wife has been complaining about my mother deliberately rejecting every

dessert sample that she sent. So, many times, my mother has told her that she's being honest

and keeping the guest's best interest at heart. Yet, my wife still thought that my mother is

deliberately excluding her since two of the dessert samples were rejected before.

For this year's Christmas, my mother is doing the same thing, but this time, she told every woman

who's participating to make a cookie sample and send it to her for testing.

My wife took it as a challenge, and to be honest, she worked really hard to make a good sample,

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