Emily Duprie
A hard-working, 32 year-old woman who sets up and builds the majority of furniture in her household went through a bit of a quarrel with her husband after she “embarrassed him” in front of his sister. The wife and Redditor (u/metallicsheet) came to the ‘AITA?’ subReddit where people post their morally challenging situations in hopes of getting some resolutions.
When her sister-in-law came to visit their home for the first time since the COVID pandemic, she was shocked to see all the new classy furniture in the house. As you can predict, she wrongfully assumed that the OP’s (original poster) husband was the one who did all the construction work. Little did she know, it was Bobbie the Builder who put these pieces together. Obviously proud of her work, the OP corrected the sister on her assumption and in doing so, bruised her hubby’s ego.
Read her story in full below and let us know if you think she could have withheld from correcting her sister-in-law about who was building the furniture around her crib.
This hard-working woman asked “AITA for showing off?”
To start her tale off, she explained some background information in how she got into wood-working and building furniture.
Throwaway. I 32(F) is the only child of my parents. It became clear growing up that my dad wanted a boy but made the best of what he got. He taught me how to do everything, like fixing stuff around the house, putting DIY furniture together(he’s big on that), woodworking, basically a lot of stuff that is traditionally expected of men to do, my dad taught me how.
My husband (33M) and I had our first child last year. We got most of the baby furniture from IKEA, I ended up putting all of them together(I’m not saying this to complain, it was relaxing for me). I also put together any of our child’s toys or chairs or whatever else that needs to get done.
When her SIL and husband came to visit and saw all the new furniture, things went down…
Due to the on pandemic, my husband’s family hadn’t been able to visit. My SIL and her husband recently got the vaccine( they work in health care) and decided to visit us for the first time. SIL made a comment about how nice the nursery looked, and asked where we got the nursery furniture from.
I told her we got them from ikea and then she said it must have been a hassle for Her brother/my husband to put together. I told her that I put together the furniture myself and a lot of the DIY furniture in our house as well. SIL laughed and said she’d need some help with hers. I thought it ended there until they left. My husband said I was showing off and trying to show that he’s incompetent.
After correcting her SIL on who built the furniture pieces, OP’s husband called her out for humiliating him, even though it wasn’t her intention.
I didn’t correct SIL with that intention, I guess I felt proud of my abilities. My husband is still sulking and keep on insisting that the comment didn’t need clarification. AITA?
It’s fairly obvious that this is a case of a shattered ego. Whether or not her husband will realize that it’s his own insecurities that are causing this scuffle with his talented wife is yet to be revealed. Those who saw the post backed OP in her decision and put her husband on blast for being a jerk. In the end, OP was labeled as “Not the A-hole.”
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