'So, when are you getting a real job': Dad belittles daughter's art teacher fiancé Leo for his career choice, she stands up for him and cuts family dinner short

Family dinner can be tricky enough in and of itself, but when your parents don't approve of your partner, what's meant to be a wholesome opportunity to bond over a shared meal can turn into a battleground of passive-aggressive comments and awkward silences. That's exactly what one woman had to endure the other night, when a Sunday dinner turned sour thanks to her dad's "jokes" directed at her fiancé, Leo, a high school art teacher. Sure, it's not the highest-paying job out there, but he's proud of the work he does shaping young minds and loves going to work every day. Her dad, however, thinks otherwise, and made his opinion known in the form of multiple, unrelenting digs at Leo's expense. The couple finally reached a breaking point and left dinner, but now everyone seems to think they overreacted.

I remember when my parents didn't really like my college boyfriend. In the end, they were right. Sort of; they were perhaps wrong about the nature of our relationship's eventual demise, but they were right in the fact that that young man was NOT for me. Either way, they never treated him badly, even when he came over for dinner, scrolled Instagram at the table while eating, and explained his "life plan" to my parents (posting clips of himself playing the guitar on TikTok until a producer noticed him). The issue here isn't our narrator's dad's disapproval, but how far he goes in voicing it. He definitely crosses the line between a conerned dad and outright disrespect.

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AITA for leaving a family dinner after my dad kept mocking my fiancé's career?

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Teaching is an admirable profession, but let's say, for argument's sake, that he does have some incredibly volatile job that has 0 chance of bearing fruit in the future, that is simply no way to treat a guest!
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I can name every art teacher I've had since kindergarten because they were so impactful in my life!
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