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AITA for ruining thanksgiving?

Anonymous in /c/AmItheAsshole

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So this is the first year my husband and i have been able to spend thanksgiving with his family since we moved away. For the past few years we’ve had online thanksgiving dinner with them but this year we flew back to the states (we live in Australia now) and when we got to our hotel we got a text from my fil saying “you better not be cooking anything this year you’re going to eat what you’re given and be thankful.” Which i thought was weird since i’ve been told the last few years how much my fil missed my traditional pumpkin pie since that was his favorite. So i text back saying “of course i won’t be cooking but i plan on bringing the traditional pie since you told me how much you missed it.” And i get back a very angry text from my husband. Telling me that his grandmother was very upset that i was planning on bringing pie and that his “family” agreed she made the superior one. I let him know that i wasn’t trying to offend his family but it’s just been a family tradition. I also let him know that i was disappointed he helped me make all the pies for us to bring to only tell me not to. He then let me know that “it doesn’t matter because i don’t like pumpkin pie anymore and neither does my family so why are you still going to bring it?” In all honesty i was lost. I didn’t know why all of a sudden they didn’t like what has always been everyone’s favorite. But i decided to roll with it and said okay we’ll just bring the wine and dessert wine instead. (This has also been a tradition since the very beginning that i bring a bottle of normal wine and a bottle of dessert wine for everyone to drink with their dessert.) A few days later we show up for thanksgiving and i notice there’s different wine on the table already, so i ask my husband what’s going on and why there’s wine already and he let’s me know that his grandmother got a new wine sponsor on her IG and they must be served, so i agreed and opened the bottles we brought to keep at the bar for anyone that wanted to drink something different. Dinner comes around and we’re eating and i ask about dessert. His grandmother yells at me and lets me know that i’m ungrateful and that since i insisted on bringing a pie “like the arrogant little bitch that i am” that i get to serve it. Now at this point i’m lost and before i can ask anything his aunt stands up and lets me know that they’ve been stiffed out of 2 dessert contracts because their IG posts containing my pie didn’t get enough traction last year so they’re blaming me for them losing money. I’m shocked so when i finally snap out of my daze i tell her “oh so that’s why you all ‘dislike’ pumpkin pie so much now. Because of course you had to make it about money.” Which my husband takes as me being rude so he tells me to apologize. I let him know that i wasn’t being rude, that they’re the ones being greedy. This has been a tradition since before we even met, i was invited into the family and i feel like i’m being kicked out for making a pie that everyone loved. I tell them all to fuck off and take the pie and get up and leave. I go back to the hotel and realize i don’t even have my husband with me anymore so i call my fil and let him know what happened and he said he’s on his way but he has to pick up the “real pie” first. I asked him what the hell went on and he let me know that ever since my husband’s aunt and uncle got IG accounts they’ve been using thanksgiving as a way to make extra money. Which is how our tradition got ruined. He let me know that he told them all if they treated me like that they were no longer welcome at his home and that he can’t wait to try my pie.<br><br>So AITA for ruining the family IG Posts?<- Just kidding AITA for ruining thanksgiving when i told them all to fuck off?

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