Woman shares secret family recipe for "married women only" with 50-year-old cousin-in-law who plans to remain single, family explodes at her for breaking tradition: 'The cousin didn't "earn" it'

Every family has that one thing that they take a little too seriously. For some, it's the annual holiday card photo. For others, it's the seating chart at Thanksgiving. My own family is incredibly intense about learning a new coordinated dance for every cousin's wedding. Then, there's families that guard their family recipes like they're nuclear codes, even if all they really amount to is tomatoes and the same old herbs.

One such household is at the center of today's tale; they're really protective over their recipes. And they're not just interested in keeping the cooking information within the family; they are very particular about the marriage status of those in the know. One woman marries into this family and is consequently endowed with the classified knowledge of how to make their red pasta sauce. However, she causes quite the stir when she shares the recipe with her spouse's cousin, a woman in her 50s who was born into the family but never got to learn how to make the dish simply because she isn't married and doesn't plan to be.

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AITA for giving a secret family recipe to a family member?

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All of this for red pasta sauce is crazy; unles that stuff has some out-of-left-field secret ingredient, being this protective over it simply doesn't make sense.
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