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The original was posted on /r/amitheasshole by /u/throwaway-half on 2024-01-23 02:58:07+00:00.
My wife's best friends—one is unmarried, and the other has never been in a relationship—keeps inviting my wife, without me or our son, and I find their behavior rude and disrespectful to our family.
I have told my wife multiple times about this, but she always brushes it off with how she rarely gets to meet them without us, and sometimes, she wants to be with her friends alone.
I don't agree with her; as a family and a mother, she shouldn't leave us for other people. She and I had decided that she would stay at home with our son while I worked. But now, she wants to leave our 6-year-old with her sister and go play with her friends.
The other day, she left with her friends. I wouldn't have known this if she hadn't told me that she went grocery shopping. My wife broke her arm, so they came to help, and I appreciate it, but when I told my wife that I could have driven her there after work, she snapped at me for no reason.
This further escalated into a heated argument between the two of us, and I told her that her single, and unmarried friends have no idea how important a husband, a child, or even a partner is, and that she is being selfish for breaking our agreement everything time she chooses her friends over us. She has been passive-aggressive with me ever since, telling me that I'm being unreasonable with my "demand". And she refuses to apologize for turning a simple disagreement into a full-blown argument.
To clarify, I'm not against her wanting to spend time with her friends; I just want her to be like a married woman, and not exclude us.
So, AITA for expecting my wife to treat us like family.