If your wedding has been ruined due to Coronavirus just know that things could always be worse and by that we mean you could be this woman.
Recently, a bride has taken to Reddit’s popular “Am I the A**hole [1]” forum to ask if she and her husband are in the wrong for wanting to spend their honeymoon alone — as in not with her new in-laws.
In the post, which received nearly 30,000 upvotes from other Redditors, the bride shares that her new husband’s parents gifted them “a week in an all-inclusive hotel” for their honeymoon.
But there’s a twist. The bride wrote that while they were initially “really grateful” for the wedding present, the couple quickly grew frustrated when they arrived and discovered the parents had “also booked a room at this hotel for themselves for the whole week and want to do group things.”
“Outside of this, we see them maybe 2 or 3 times a year for a couple days at a time as he finds them a bit overbearing at times and they don’t really like me,” the anonymous bride shared.
Though the parents aren’t in the room next to the couple, the bride wrote that they “knock on [the couple’s] door regularly, waking us up at 6 a.m., making us [go to three meals a day] with them.”
She wrote that her new husband’s parents have been so determined to spend time together that when the pair pretended to get sick to avoid attending a meal, the parents “just got room service to our room and sat with us while we faked stomach aches.”
OMG!
THEN when the couple tried telling the parents that they needed some “alone time” the groom’s parents were like “that’s what [the] room is for.”
Can you imagine!?
Fed up with the demanding interactions, the bride asked Reddit if she and her husband would be rude to use the money they had saved up for their honeymoon before his parents surprised them with the generous vacation, and travel to another town they wanted to visit without telling his parents.
“We could also book a few days in a nice hotel for about half of what’s left in our wedding/honeymoon fund,” she wrote, adding that they could “use the remainder of the week we booked off in another town without his parents knowing we’d left until we had.”
Readers in the forum jumped to defend the bride and to tell her that she was not in the wrong.
“[His parents] deliberately withheld the knowledge that they would also be there from you and your husband until you were committed to the trip and had arrived. That is a seriously sketchy move, and you’re under no obligation to make your honeymoon about them,” another seconded.
Apparently, the newlyweds agreed with the masses as they posted an update saying they booked another hotel and their train would be arriving shortly.
YIKES!
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com [2] and is used by permission.
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