The Wildest Am I the Asshole Posts from Reddit, Part 02
People have long turned to the sage corners of Reddit to answer the age-old quandary, “Am I the Asshole?"
Is there anything better than scrolling through the digital tome that is the AITA subreddit and judging strangers who have asked you to do just that?
Here is part two of our curated list of the wildest "Am I the Asshole" posts from Reddit.
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AITA for giving my ex-wife a large amount of money I won despite the anger of my gf?
OP has recently won the lottery. Like, literally, and now has what he describes as a "fuck you" amount of money. He wants to give a chunk to his ex-wife, with whom he has two children.
Like, damn! What a good guy, ex-husband of the fucking year 1,000 times over. He praises his ex-wife, describing her as an awesome person and mom. They're only exes because he cheated on her with his current GF. Giving his ex a chunk of the "fuck you" money, enough that she could quit her shitty job and pursue her passions.
One problem: OP's girlfriend ain't happy about the idea, so much so that she's accusing him of being in love with his ex-wife and threatening to break up with him.
Which brings us to OP's big question: "Am I the asshole for giving my ex-wife a large amount of money I won despite the anger of my gf?"
AITA for calling my mom when my husband refused to listen to me?
This one is a bit long, but it's the journey, not the destination, so buckle up.
OP is about four months into pregnancy with her first behbeh. Shit has been rough — morning sickness and dizzy spells so severe that one day she passed out and hit her head. Her doc admitted her to the hospital for a week to keep an eye on the head injury. While OP was in the hospital, her husband had moved his brother's ENTIRE FUCKING FAMILY into their home after they were evicted.
She comes home to absolute chaos. Overflowing trash bin, clothes strewn everywhere, and even dirty diapers. OP is upset. She starts to cry. OP's husband is like, "Oh, whatever, it's not that bad." OP says, "Im going to take a nap, please clean this shit before I wake up."
Guess what? He didn't clean while she was asleep. This motherfucker berates his pregant and exhausted wife for not being more welcoming to his brother's family. She says she's too sick to have a house full of people and asks him to kindly see his brother and his horrible family out. Husband says, "ummmmmmm, no."
So OP brings in the big guns: she calls her mama. Mom shows up with OP's three brothers in tow. They get to business and start cleaning the house. Then OP's MIL gets all invovled, calling OP to tell her she's shitty for getting her mother involved.
I think we all know the answer to this question, but still OP poses: "Am I the Asshole for calling my mom when my husband refused to listen?"
Am I the asshole for asking my brother not to bring his boyfriend to my wedding?
We plucked this one from the vast field of AITA posts relating to one of the most stressful events one can endure: one's own wedding.
OP gets right to it: he is stoked to marry the woman of his dreams in one week. The thing is, his brother wants to bring his new boyfriend to the wedding.
HOLD THE FUCK ON, it's not what you think.
OP's brother is only out to OP and their parents, all of whom are very supportive and have been encouraging OP to come out to the rest of the family. The thing is, like half of their extended family members are hateful dogshit asshats, so OP's brother is like, "mmmmmmaybe I'll like hold on on the coming out thing."
OP is thrilled his brother has found such a wonderful boyfriend, but is taken aback when he says he wants to debut their romance, and consequently burst out of the closet, at the wedding.
OP tells his brother that if it were any other family event, he would stand on business and support him 100%. But he's like, "Bro, my wedding!? Can my wedding not be the stage for you coming out?!" OP notes that his wife-to-be has worked her ass off planning the wedding, and doesn't want anything to detract from her day. He asks his brother to please not do that. OP's brother cries, leaves, and ignores OP for a few days, before eventually reaching out to say, "I'll come to the wedding alone, don't worry."
OP is relieved, but tension remains between the brothers.
And here we find ourselves, lurkers of Reddit, pondering OP's question, "Am I the asshole for asking my brother not to bring his boyfriend to my wedding?"
AITA for giving my MIL a fake copy of my house key and "exposing" her at Christmas dinner?
Another MIL doozy! OP and her husband have been married for a year and just bought their first house. Mother-in-law keeps asking for an emergency key, but she has a history of abusing her emergency key privileges. This bitch would just walk on in unannounced at their old apartment! And she walked in on them being intimate. Twice. TWICE.
MIL keeps pushing, so OP pulls a brilliant move: she makes a fake key and gives it to MIL to shut her up. She smuggly smiles and thanks her and promises not to use unless there is an emergency.
A few days later, it's Christmas dinner and the whole fam damily is gathered, and probably eating a ham. MIL suddenly calls OP out for giving her a fake key. OP is like, "Oh, interesting, how do you know it's fake?" and MIL lets it slip that she tried to use it to get into their house the other day while OP and her husband were gone. OP goes, "Aha! So you lied! You tried to use it to get into our house when there was no emergency."
The family is enjoying the show and starts laughing. MIL went bright red and had a full-on meltdown.
OP's husband is not pleased. On the way home, he accuses her of lying and manipulating just to humiliate his insane mother. Now, he's demanding OP apologize for ruining Christmas dinner.
So, OP is asking, "AITA for giving my MIL a fake copy of my house key and 'exposing' her at Christmas dinner?"
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AITA for keeping my website up after being asked to remove it?
OP's story is shocking and fucking upsetting. He was blindsided at work when a team of police showed up, cuffed him, and dragged him off in front of his coworkers. To his horror and surprise, he learned he was being charged with multiple felonies. He spent every dollar he had retaining a criminal defense attorney and as a result, had no money left to make bond. After 54 days in jail, his attorney procures video footage of him putting gas in his car a whole ass town away during the time the crimes took place. So the city is like, "whoooooops! Our bad. You can leave now."
OP learns that suing the police for poor police work and winning is extremely unlikely. He goes to the press to tell the world about the horrible nightmare he experienced, but these sorry fucking excuses for journalists aren't interested in the scoop.
So, OP created a website to share his story. And wouldn't you know, that website has crawled up the old SEO ladder and is the second result to pop up when Googling the name of OP's town, which apparently is quite a tourist destination. Web traffic is booming, and the g-men aren't happy. OP recieves a cease and desist letter, and then the very detective whose dogshit work ruined OP's life. Detective fuck face apologizes and asks him to take the website down. OP refuses, but wonders, "AITA for keeping my website up after being asked to remove it?"