'You're being vindictive': Daughter-In-Law Refuses to Make Her Signature Christmas Dish After Finding It in MIL’s Trash Can Last Year, Faces Ultimatum

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    Posted by u/Impressive_Peace6778 13 hours ago AITA for refusing to make lasagna for Christmas after what my MIL did last year?
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    I (30f) have been together with my husband Michael (31m) for 7 years. Married for 3 and dating for 4. My MIL (58f) has always hosted Christmas ever since I've known him.
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    I've always made lasagna for Christmas and other special occasions. I'm essentially the family lasagna maker, and I honestly don't really mind since I love to cook and bake.
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    However, last year my MIL decided to make lasagna based off what she saw me doing when she was at my house and a receipe she she got off the internet. I was surprised that she prepared a pan of her own, but didn't say anything and even got a small piece.
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    It did not taste good, and it was barely touched whilst mine had almost half gone near the end of the dinner. That infuriated my MIL, and she wound up doing a rant about how everyone loves me more than her and tried to throw my lasagna in the trash. I say tried because it mainly ended up on the floor.
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    Michael and I quickly left after that, and my MIL has not apologized for it since.
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    Yesterday she called me to confirm what I was making for Christmas this year, and on her list of things I should make was lasagna.
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    I politely said I wasn't going to make lasagna due to last year's incident and I'd be happy to make anything else. my MIL wasn't as polite and called me vindictive for refusing to make the lasagna over a small mistake.
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    I just refused again and it made my MIL angrier so she told me that unless I show up with lasagna in hand, she wouldn't let me be at the Christmas celebration.
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    My husband says its easier to just make the lasagna to keep the peace, and I shouldn't hold my MIL's mistake that she made out of anger against her.
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    Word got to my SIL and BIL from my MIL and they're saying I should also make it even if it's just half of what I would usually make.
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    Mairwyn 12 hr. ago My husband says its easier to just make the lasagna to keep the peace, and I shouldn't hold my MIL's mistake that she made out of anger against her. Sounds like he just volunteered to make the lasagna! NTA 15.4k Reply Share
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    Professional_Ruin953 12 hr. ago Enthusiast [5] ● Premeditated self-destructive failed strategy. Not a mistake. This woman wanted, for whatever reason, to upstage OP, went through the effort of trying to make OP's signature dish, did a poor job of it, then proceeded to rampage with revenge and destroy OP's leftovers.
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    There are way too many deliberate actions in that event for any of her chosen behaviour to be a mistake. And she has not apologised. I'd be insisting that husband joins OP in whatever other Christmas celebrations she'd prefer to attend from now on. They can send a cheap frozen lasagna to MIL's as their RSVP "no" 5.4k Reply Share
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    wylietrix 9 hr. ago I'd stay home. No in-laws sounds like a gift of its own. Don't make it.

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