Woman Asks if She’s Wrong for Embarrassing Her Aunt When She Hassled Her About Getting Married

It really boggles the mind when people get so concerned about what OTHER folks do in their personal lives…especially when it comes to OTHER people getting married.

And here we go again with another story from Reddit’s “Am I the A**hole?” page!

Read on and let us know if you think this woman went too far when she embarrassed her aunt.

AITA for embarrassing my aunt when she pressed about me getting married?

“Backstory first: My(f21) aunt(f48) is very traditional, and thinks all women should have kids and get married and be housewives.

I cannot conform to her standard, because I am a lesbian and am already in a relationship (Aunt doesn’t know this.) My aunt keeps pestering me about it now that I’m 20, and I keep brushing it off. Anyways, on with the story.

So my aunt and I recently went to a family gathering. It went on for a couple hours, and then we all sat down on a table to have lunch. My aunt was sitting almost directly opposite me, and there were 15 other people there. In the middle of the meal, everybody got quieter (to eat.) My aunt saw this as the perfect opportunity to ask me:

“Hey (OP), Do you want to get married nowadays?”

At this moment, my brain thought of something, and I quickly responded to her, in the most loudest, disgusted way possible:

“Ew, no”

At this point, everybody was silent. My aunt got slightly offended with me and asked:

“Why?”

this is where i might be the a**hole. I quickly responded to her with:

“Because you’re my aunt!”

It didn’t really get the reaction I expected (only two people really laughed), but my cousins piped in to say how my aunt was always pestering us about getting married, which I guess is a small win.

Later, after the gathering, my aunt sent many angry whatsapp texts to me, saying how she was just asking a plain question, and that I had no right to humiliate her like I did. Am I the a**hole?”