This Engaged Couple Is Butting Heads About The Bride's Unusual Family "Tradition" Between The Groom And His Soon-To-Be MIL
The globe is replete with truly odd wedding rituals, from plate-smashing to post-wedding toilet prohibitions or sobbing brides.
The art of life is dictated by family or cultural traditions worldwide. From birth to death, family traditions serve as guiding principles across the world.
Strange, to say the least, that these traditions are not restricted to rituals or practices; they may also be portrayed through dancing, music, food, and even the passing down of heirlooms. Because every family structure and composition has various modes and standards of living, the regular rituals and traditions in a family's existence take on diverse shapes and dynamics.
How a family performs and conducts various traditions and customs depends on the changing elements of the family. These are rituals or practices unique to each family, and they help them connect with their immediate and extended families.
They also help the younger generation comprehend the family culture and communicate with older family members. Attitudes, feelings, and values are the three variables that must be maintained or formed for family traditions to be upheld or established.
On the other hand, these traditions are not always simple to follow, and the younger generation is not always happy to do so. 'When you marry someone, you marry their family,' as the adage goes, along with their wedding customs, no matter how strange they may seem.
One such peculiar tradition, @throwratonypan, a Reddit member, had to follow involved his soon-to-be wife expecting him to wine and dine with his future mother-in-law as part of their unusual family ritual.
The groom who was being forced into following a weird family tradition with which he was really uncomfortable.
throwratonypanHe even feels that he might be TA for refusing to follow this sinister-sounding family tradition.
throwratonypanFor some reason, this just feels like a trick by the bride to get her mother a fancy dinner and new clothes.
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We all are having a hard time believing that somewhere someone is actually following this ridiculous tradition.
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The bride seems to be really into making her future husband sleep with her mother; this is so twisted.
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Sleeping with the bride's mother is a way to kick off the wedding? The groom should kick her out of his life.
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What... The bride would not be upset if her to-be husband slept with her mother, and she insisted that the duo should actually get a hotel for a night.
throwratonypan
A fun tradition? It may sound fun to the bride and her family, but not to the rest of the world. It seems utterly disgusting!
throwratonypan
At least the mother-in-law was a little bit nice about this whole situation; it feels like she was also being forced into doing it.
throwratonypan
The mother-in-law seems like a nice person who is willing to go against the family tradition just to make the groom comfortable.
throwratonypan
No, dude, you are so not TA for refusing to cross the boundaries of your comfort and sleep with your mother-in-law.
throwratonypan
And what if the son-in-law doesn't agree and wishes to follow the family tradition and forces her to sleep with him? Hope she understands what the groom went through.
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Anyone and everyone would be upset with their partner for even suggesting that.
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Sometimes people con others into doing things and make them believe it's a family tradition or ritual. Do your research, lad.
throwratonypan
Right, this concept only creates the possibility of sleeping with their daughter's potential husband.
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As simple as that: if you are not comfortable doing something, that's the end of it!
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The whole situation sounds scandalous to me, but the MIL being supportive gives a ray of hope to the groom.
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Exactly; only if the bride had to sleep with the groom's father would the bride's family have turned the house upside down.
throwratonypan
If he really wishes to keep the tradition going, then take the mother out to dinner, buy her nightwear, and drop her home.
throwratonypan
Now that is a great trick to follow the tradition while maintaining your comfort level and privacy. A win-win situation.
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Exactly; no tradition should hinder the comfort level of the people.
throwratonypan
This family tradition seems obscure and indecent, and the bride from this generation should not give in to such traditions. She should have understood that the groom was uncomfortable and should not have forced him.
Share this with all your friends and family and tell them to be careful of such weird things people make us do in the name of tradition.
