AITA for humiliating my wife on social media to "defend" my mom?
After years of silent turmoil, the decision to sever ties with his mother was a painful but necessary act of love and protection.
The final fight between his mom and wife shattered any hope of peace, forcing him to choose the family he built over the one he was born into.
The weight of cutting off his mother, someone so deeply woven into his past, left his heart aching with raw, unspoken grief.
Yet, the battle spilled beyond private heartbreak into the harsh glare of social media, where truth blurred and wounds reopened.
His wife’s posts, meant to defend and clarify, instead tangled memories and stirred embarrassment, turning personal pain into public spectacle.
Amidst the chaos, he stood mortified, caught between loyalty and the unraveling of a family’s fragile fabric.
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NTA.
The original poster (OP) reached a breaking point in the conflict between their mother and spouse, leading to the difficult decision of initiating no contact with the mother to protect the marriage.
However, the OP is now caught in a secondary conflict with their wife regarding her public posts about the situation, especially after the OP intervened in the online dispute.
Given the OP's feeling of humiliation over the wife's use of a misleading photo and the wife's subsequent feeling of betrayal when the OP corrected the record publicly, the core question remains: When protecting one's marriage necessitates difficult actions, does correcting verifiable public falsehoods publicly supersede the immediate need to validate a spouse's desire for emotional revenge?