Every Time She And Her Husband Are Invited Out To Eat With Her In-Laws, They’re Expected To Pay, So The Last Time This Happened, She Told Her Husband They Should Stop Footing The Bill
This 37-year-old woman and her husband claim that they are amateur foodies.
While they don’t really know anything special about the food, they both just really enjoy good meals and trying out new restaurants.
They are also fortunate enough to lead a lifestyle that allows them to go out to eat whenever they please. Plus, they live in an area that just so happens to have a ton of unique restaurants and good food.
But they don’t just like to experience new cuisines together. Instead, they also enjoy sharing the experience with others.
So, she and her husband decided to start inviting either her parents or his parents out to eat with them.
“We take them out maybe once every three or four months, not including celebrations. And because we invite, we always pay,” she explained.
Just a few months ago, though, her in-laws decided to invite her and her husband out for a change. Her in-laws selected a restaurant that they really enjoyed near their house.
And even though the joint was not a restaurant she or her husband would normally select, they figured it was her in-laws’ attempt to “join in on the fun” and show them something new.
So, they wound up going to dinner as a group. But, to her total surprise, her mother-in-law just slid the bill over to her husband after they finished eating without even looking at the damage.
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This shocked her husband, too. However, since the dinner was not very expensive, she and her husband just paid the tab without saying anything to her in-laws.
Yet, a few weeks later, the same thing happened. And that time, her in-laws had invited her and her husband out to a “moderately expensive” restaurant they had all visited before as a group.
Still, she and her husband declined to say anything. Well, that was until her husband was on the phone with his mom recently.
Apparently, while they were talking, her husband decided to mention how she had just received an award at work. At that point, her mother-in-law immediately suggested that they all visit a super fancy restaurant to celebrate over dinner.
She pretty much knew how that meal would end, though, and decided to finally say something.
“I quietly asked if we were going to have to pay for it, and my husband started glaring daggers at me,” she recalled.
Now, she claimed that her in-laws did not actually hear her say that. However, they found out what she had said from her husband– who wound up calling her rude.
Still, she stood her ground and told her husband that they should not have to pay every time her in-laws just wanted to go out to dinner.
She also pointed out how her husband’s parents were just trying to use her award– which she claims was not a huge deal at all– to eat a fancy dinner.
Her husband claimed that they could afford it, though; meanwhile, his parents just could not.
So, he wound up accusing her of being a jerk for refusing to pay for them. Plus, after her husband spoke to his parents later on, he revealed how she had embarrassed her in-laws and made them feel like they were mooching.
That’s why her in-laws are now expecting her to apologize. On top of that, her husband also thinks that to make up for her “rudeness,” they should just take his parents out to the fancy restaurant anyway.
Quite frankly, though, she really doesn’t think it’s wrong to expect her in-laws to pay when they invite her and her husband out to dinner.
Regardless, she’s now been left wondering whether refusing to pay for her in-laws’ dinner makes her a real jerk.
If you were invited out to dinner, would you expect to pay? Does it make a difference whether she and her husband can afford it or not? If you had been in her shoes, would you have said something also?
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