29-year-old woman kicks out entitled parents for insisting her husband wake up after they show up unannounced, she refuses: “If you can’t respect my request then you’re not longer welcome”

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jul 29, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

The essence to any healthy relationship is respect. Whether it's your partner, your parents, siblings, boss, friends, or dermatologist, respect is crucial to maintain a relationship where both people are happy. It can be heart wrenching to see a couple where respect is clearly not involved. Affection isn't the same as respect, nor is love. And unfortunately, when you grow up and uninvolved yourself with a fairytale-like mindset behind dating, you realize that love isn't everything. 

I once dated a guy who was very affectionate, and very sweet with his words. But over time, I saw that his words didn't match his actions, and I realized that his version of love wasn't only self-serving, but it was detached from what I felt like was a love I needed. When you really decide that your partner's well-being is on par with your own, the love will speak stronger. 

In the story below, the protagonist doesn't just love her husband, she respects him. When he's exhausted from overworking, she takes his side, regardless of what her parents think. 

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    AITAH for refusing to wake up my husband when my parents visited and kicking them out when they insisted.

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  • We all know entitled people, people who want to push boundaries, who want to get what they want regardless of how it affects anyone else. It's even harder to deal with when it's one or both of your parents. Our parents should be respectful of our wishes as adults. 

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    personal life as private as i can. With that said i will keep details as low as possible as well.
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    Husband and i have been married for 5 years now and we are both 29 years old.
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    The last 3 weeks due to a complete screw up in a department in the company my. husband works for it has been all hand on deck for my husband. and his team to resolve the issues
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    My husband has been working 18 hour a day and even some days not even coming home working throughout the entire night and
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    into the next day. I don't know much about the issues exacly but what i do know is that if they do not resolve the issues it will be a 50 million dollar loss for the
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    company. The issues are not the result of my husband or anyone in his team but they are the ones that has to fix the issues.
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    I can see the exhaustion in my husbands face when he comes in as 2-3 in the morning when I'm awake and leaves at 7 again. I don't know how he is doing it,
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    and just keeps going but i try my best to keep as much as possible of his plate at home untill he could get the issues resolved.
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    Before this he has been nothing but supportive and helpful around the house.
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    When he comes home he eats, showers and goes straight to bed. I have found him some nights literally sleeping at the table while he was busy eating when i went
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    down to check on him because he wasn't in bed yet and i got woken up or him passed out on the foot of the bed with the
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    shower running and him still in his work clothes.
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    2 night back he got home at around midnight which is late but was to early from when he normally get back and i thought something bad happened
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    because he looked like a ghost but through his exhaustion he gave me this massive smile and said, they did it and everything is done. He told me the boss gave
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    them each a couple days off and he only needs to be back in the office next week Tuesday. He ate dinner, took a shower and got into bed.
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    I got up the next morning around 9 and made breakfast, i thought about waking up my husband but didn't and let him sleep. Around 12 my parents visited me, i
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    normally work from home and they do visit from time to time seeing as I'm 6 months pregnant as well. I greeted them and we sat down and had coffe. Around 30
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    minutes into their visit they asked where my husband was because they saw his truck in the driveway. I told them he was still sleeping, my mother gave me a look and
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    said it's unacceptable for my husband to still be sleeping past 12:00 especially with a pregnant wife and i should wake him up.
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    I told them no and to leave it and then explained the full situations of what happened the last 3 weeks to them. They didn't budge and insisted i wake my husband
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    up, apparently it's not right for him to sleep in with a pregnant wife. It went as far as my mother standing up and saying if i wouldn't do it then she will go
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    and wake him up. I stood up and blocked my mother from going up the stairs and told my parents if they find it so wrong for my husband to get proper sleep after 3 weeks of barely any sleep they
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    should leave our house because i will not and i refuse to let them wake him up as well. I told them, i will let my husband sleep untill he
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    wakes up himself, i will not disturb him and i will not allow anyone els to disturb him.
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    They asked if i am kicking them out and i said yes, if they can't respect my request to leave my husband alone and let him sleep they are no longer welcome. Their whole visited lasted around an hour.
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    Around 3pm i got bombarded with text from pther family members berating me for kicking my parents out of our house even my sister and brother berating
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    me for doing it. Telling me im the ahole for kicking them out for just trying to help. Even afterc explained the situation some family members are still on my
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    parents side saying i overreacted by kicking them out, because they were only looking out for my safety seeing as I'm pregnant.
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