Wife Refuses To Let Her Family Have A Merry Christmas Because It's 'Pagan'

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Dec 8, 2021 11:30 AM EST

Get the tissues ready because this Reddit story is a real tear-jerker. The OP in this story has a troubled background. He had a horrible childhood and doesn't want his daughter to have the same tainted holiday memories that he had. His wife is religious and he is an atheist. Despite their religious differences, they love each other and decided to make a compromise and celebrate Christmas for their daughter, at least for the first few years of their childhood. Flashforward to the wife's mother making one negative comment about it being a pagan holiday and then it all turns nasty. The moral Judges of Reddit are duking it out in the comments. 

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  • 01
    Font - AITA for telling my wife she ruined Christmas?
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  • 02
    Font - I am an atheist. My wife is religious. My parents are split and I grew up with a terrible dad. I told myself that when I have a kid that I don't want to be anything like him. Christmas is one of the only holidays I care about, it's
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  • 03
    Font - when everyone is around family and are happy. I wanted my kid to have these moments. My wife says that holidays like Christmas or Halloween are pagan and we aren't allowed to celebrate them. I tried giving kids candy one year for Halloween and she became upset. We both agreed that
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  • 04
    Font - when we had a kid we would start celebrating Christmas for at least a few years (we both celebrated as kids). Our daughter was born this year and we planned Christmas. Her mother visited us last week, when I told her how we were
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  • 05
    Font - doing Christmas this year she made a face and went "ugh, that pagan holiday." We all went to the store and got a tree, lights, and her mother even bought us a reindeer decoration. After that day I noticed my wife seemed indifferent about Christmas.
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  • 06
    Font - Yesterday I started to set up the tree. I was having trouble and asked for help. She said jokingly that she wasn't helping. Eventually I asked again for help, and she wouldn't come near the tree. I asked if she was serious and she replied "yes, you're doing Christmas so you do the tree." I asked if she was at least going to do the lights or even touch the tree, she said no to
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  • 07
    Font - both. We started arguing and she basically said she never wanted to do Christmas to begin with and she was "allowing" us to have a tree. I got upset and said I would be returning everything. I took down the tree and threw it back in the box. She asked what I was doing, and I yelled that she ruined Christmas.
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  • 08
    Font - She told me to leave the reindeer her mother bought. I returned everything else. The next day I said that she lied to me by agreeing to do it with me and then not wanting to participate. I also blamed her for
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  • 09
    Font - allowing her mother to influence her. She got upset at me for calling her a liar and thinking her mother had any influence, then left. She texted me that I misunderstood her and she would have done the lights once I did the tree. I called her a liar
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  • 10
    Font - and reminded her that she told me no when I explicitly asked her if she would help with the lights or even touch the tree. She came back and I told her that she ruined such an important family memory that I wanted to make for us and just because you put up a tree doesn't mean you now believe in
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  • 11
    Font - a different god or whatever. I reminded her that I do things I don't believe in all the time for her (church once, prayers, etc), and the fact that she wont even go near a tree is crazy. At this point I started crying. I've never cried in front of her and I almost never cry in general. She then offered to help with the lights, but I'd still have to do the tree myself. I said that it was too late
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  • 12
    Font - and that the memory was ruined. I told her this was important to me years before we even had a baby.
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