Fury as Wife Banned From Mom-in-Law's Wedding Shows Up and Causes a 'Scene'

A woman who was banned from her mother-in-law's wedding has been blasted for turning up to cause a scene, after her husband attended without her.

The 26-year-old took to Reddit's Am I The A**hole forum, to ask if she was in the wrong after her outburst at the nuptials, where she called her husband a "liar and manipulator."

Posting under username u/Grace-Full4235, she explained she and her mother-in-law "don't get along at all."

"Our last disagreement was because of her wanting to sell the family house and give her older son more money than my husband. MIL told me to stay out of it and my husband said he was fine with it.

"She ended up putting some distance between us and stop inviting me to events. FINE but I told my husband I expect him to stay home with me when I'm uninvited," she explained.

Tension between wives and their mothers-in-law is nothing new, with website The Mother-in-Law Project delving into the relationship.

"Although this relationship gets a bad rap, overall the MIL/DIL connection may not be as dreadful as society would have us believe. In fact, in many cases, it's downright affectionate," they said.

Although they acknowledged the relationship can be classed as "complicated." Some can be "filled with mutual love and respect," others are "strained, tense or absolutely terrible."

A survey of 807 women from 49 states found that just 5 percent of mothers-in-law said they were "dissatisfied or very dissatisfied" with the relationship with their son's wife.

In contrast, 20 percent of wives said they were "dissatisfied or very dissatisfied" with the relationship with their mom-in-law.

Grace-Full4235's experience likely falls into this latter category, as she went on to say in the post that her mother-in-law got married recently and she wasn't invited to the ceremony. As per her demands, she expected her husband not to attend without her.

"I asked my husband to promise to stay home with me and not go. He got defensive and said that this was his mom's wedding and there was no reason for him not to attend," she said.

Amid pressure, her husband claimed he wouldn't go, but told her he was hanging out with friends that day, arousing her suspicion.

After checking with his friends, she headed to the wedding venue amid fears he'd gone to the ceremony.

She fumed: "I felt betrayed and I wanted to catch him red handed so I got dressed and went to his mom's wedding. He was actually there. I was fuming when I saw him. He saw me and started following me as I was turning and making my way out.

"I yelled at him calling him a liar and manipulator. He tried to get me to quiet down since people were staring but I lost it on him and said that he betrayed the promise he made me and that his word meant s**t to me.

"He got defensive saying he really wanted to be there for his mom and at the same time couldn't handle me being upset with him and giving him silence so he hid it from me. I told him to get out of my face and went home."

The pair argued, as she wrote: "He came back looking p****d saying I made a scene at his mom's wedding and humiliated him when I started yelling at him.

"I refused to argue but his family came at me calling me horrible and controlling and saying that my husband is a 'saint' for still enduring the 's****y' behavior of mine."

She claims she blocked her sister-in-law, who said that "my husband has free will and should be able to decide where to go and be without my consent this made him get more p****d."

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The post, which can be read here, has amassed 8,000 upvotes and comments since being posted on Wednesday.

While the top comment, from Dgently123, racked up 24,000 upvotes alone, and said: "Wow. Your MIL sure sounds crazy. First, she decides... on her own, without any input from you whatsoever... how she wants to divvy up her estate.

"Although both her heirs are fine with it, she didn't take YOUR opinions into account. Next, she may have gotten upset when you started yelling at your husband at her wedding. Yeah. Your MIL is a whackjob. Your MIL. YTA."

Others agreed she was out of line, as Debsha joked: "The good news, is after the husband divorces OP, and the finances have been settled, the mother will rewrite her will leaving more to her son."

ConstantExample8927 wrote: "And I loved how she accused him of being manipulative."

All_the_Bees said: "Nah, I think when your spouse 'forbids' you to go to your own parent's wedding you are perfectly justified in lying to them."

Ill_Royal9688 added: "Soon to be Ex MIL if her soon to be ex husband has any sense."

Newsweek reached out to u/Grace-Full4235 for comment. We couldn't verify the details of the case.