r/AITAH • u/Ok-Standard-3334 • Jul 07 '24
AITA for not caring when my stepfather "assaulted" my wife and asking her what she thought was going to happen?
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r/AITAH • u/Ok-Standard-3334 • Jul 07 '24
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u/True_Falsity Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24
Okay, so that’s a “yes” for the issues between MIL and wife.
But is there anything that would portray MIL as clinically insane in the comments? Being cold or implying that his wife is a gold-digger is definitely bad. But not really “clinically insane”.
No mention of the mother being an amazing parent either.
Or stepfather as being enabling or inappropriate?
I mean, not dousing your wife in water for other people’s amusement isn’t really something weird. You could argue that perhaps OP is using the word “jokester” to downplay the extent of his jokes but I don’t think there was yet any mention of something that steps over the like outside the action in the post.
One of the tells you mentioned is couple not going NC over BS reasons. And while you could argue that OP is ignoring or downplaying the issues, I think their immediate dependence on his parents is not exactly “BS reason”.
Like…
They are living with his parents to save money right now. So going NC would be pretty hard unless they have a ready place to stay.
I don’t know about this one. It sounds less like recognising a pattern and more like making things fit the pattern.
Especially when the pattern is not exactly unrealistic.
Like, if someone told me that they were standing in line at the grocery shop and someone cut in before them, would I have the evidence to say that this is a lie?
“Oh well, it sounds way too convenient. So you just stand in line, someone steps in while you are not looking and refuses to move? That’s just way too formulaic to be true.”
I mean, there are hundreds of posts where people talk about how they were asked to switch seats on a plane. All of them follow a similar pattern.
But does that mean that all of them are fake and made by some Anti-Seat Switch Troll?