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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/DimesMachine on 2023-06-26 13:09:58+00:00.

It’s kind of a long back story. I have had problems with them for years. They accused me of being a sex trafficker because me and my wife were going to Japan after meeting for the first time. We had known each other for 5 years prior from being gaming friends, and she was 21 at the time. She asked her mom if it was okay to go, and her mom said yes. Booked the ticket, and then two days later said no. They then locked up her passport to prevent her from going. We ended up married 18 months later after going to Canada to see her myself. A bunch of other fights happened for the next 6 years around them disagreeing what we were doing with our lives, where we moved to, what school she went to, where I was working, etc.

I ended up cutting off contact with them 4 years ago because of all of that, though my wife kept talking to them. We ended up talking it out with her parents when we had our child two years ago. Trying to let bygones be bygones and not have awkwardness around the kid.

For our 5th year anniversary, we decided to go to Japan to celebrate, and have my mother watch the child while we were gone for a week and half. Then when my wife’s parents found out, they got upset and said they don’t trust my mom watching our kid because she was a drunk (they have only met my mother twice, and the one time was at my wedding where she got drunk during it). They kept insisting that my wife’s mother was the one who should watch her. We said no, and then demanded to have my wife’s mother at least come up to help watch my child for a day while we were gone. My wife’s father then said he was also going to come up with her too. This set off some flags because my wife’s parents have been bitterly divorced for 8 years, and hated being around each other but have to because they wanted to co-parent their younger children. They have also never came up together before.

I have a feeling they were planning take my kid away from who we decided we wanted to watch our kid while we gone until we cut off all contact with them and told them they can’t see our kid again.

It feels weird typing this out because how fake it all sounds. These people are crazy to a level that 7 years ago I didn’t think existed.