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Wife Challenges Her Husband To Give Her Cookie-Baking Tradition A Try, He Ends Up Upstaging Her, Family Drama Ensues
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Wife Challenges Her Husband To Give Her Cookie-Baking Tradition A Try, He Ends Up Upstaging Her, Family Drama Ensues

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Recently, a man turned to the AITA community on Reddit to find out if he was wrong to upstage his wife in their baking tradition.

“My (25m) wife (23f) and I have had a tradition every Christmas where we would bake Christmas cookies and frost them with our friends. We’d then give the cookies out to friends and family and helpers,” the author Wirnei339oe3jrj explained.

However, this year, the Redditor’s wife was not able to attend the long-awaited cookie-baking day. And while the author saw no problem and offered to do his best in the baking marathon instead of her, his wife was not buying it.

Not only did she think she was the only one who knew how to do it, she thought her husband was joking. “Well, I said I’d try, and she wished me a sarcastic good luck,” Wirnei339oe3jrj recounted.

So he rolled up his sleeves and got straight to work. The challenge was accepted.

Image credits: Jonathan Meyer (not the actual photo)

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Image credits: Keira Burton (not the actual photo)

Image credits: u/wirnei339oe3jrj

The author then shared more details in response to these comments

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While people’s opinions were split, some thought the author did nothing wrong

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Others, however, were convinced that the author was the one to blame

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The rest couldn’t make a decision on who’s right and who’s wrong in this situation while some people thought that both of them are jerks

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TotallyNOTaFox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So she basically gave an engineer a challenge and not expected him to optimize the process and succeed? That's a mistake on her side

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Marcellus II
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her starting position of insulting her partner just to make yourself feel better isn't a winner either. Then afterwards saying they taste bad is just being a poor loser. Those people concluding "YTA" are just insane.

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Salsa Ambiguity
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm an engineer and this post made me cringe a bit because I can really see myself in this guy, but not in a good way. I think it's especially important for us obsessive types to take a step back now and then and consider how our single mindedness is affecting the people around us. No one here is an a*****e but both have a bit of growing up to do.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks for saying that...! I know it is childish but I'm really proud of the fact that I can do some things "better" than my partner 🙈 we're both into cooking, but baking was depended on "my expertise" for many years. But now he's developed his skills and is getting really good at baking. He lets me do my stuff and praises it and is eager to learn some of my tricks (at least he pretends to do so 😅). Sometimes it isn't about efficiency and cost, it's more about recreateing a beloved memory (doing it, like mum or nanna did it, the ingredients, the setting, the smells... ). Or simply the feeling to be important and to matter... It's an emotional thing which needs to be dealt on an emotional level

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Ivana Bašić
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm always happy when I'm not the only one who can do something. Used to bake, wasn't bad, husband was often cooking, but never baked. He started, liked it, got really good, found a couple rockstar recipes, now he's the designated baker for any bday or school thing. Yaay!

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Amy hipps
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly why can't she just be happy? He wasn't even thinking of upstaging her.

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TotallyNOTaFox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So she basically gave an engineer a challenge and not expected him to optimize the process and succeed? That's a mistake on her side

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Marcellus II
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her starting position of insulting her partner just to make yourself feel better isn't a winner either. Then afterwards saying they taste bad is just being a poor loser. Those people concluding "YTA" are just insane.

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Salsa Ambiguity
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm an engineer and this post made me cringe a bit because I can really see myself in this guy, but not in a good way. I think it's especially important for us obsessive types to take a step back now and then and consider how our single mindedness is affecting the people around us. No one here is an a*****e but both have a bit of growing up to do.

lismarie avatar
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks for saying that...! I know it is childish but I'm really proud of the fact that I can do some things "better" than my partner 🙈 we're both into cooking, but baking was depended on "my expertise" for many years. But now he's developed his skills and is getting really good at baking. He lets me do my stuff and praises it and is eager to learn some of my tricks (at least he pretends to do so 😅). Sometimes it isn't about efficiency and cost, it's more about recreateing a beloved memory (doing it, like mum or nanna did it, the ingredients, the setting, the smells... ). Or simply the feeling to be important and to matter... It's an emotional thing which needs to be dealt on an emotional level

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Ivana Bašić
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm always happy when I'm not the only one who can do something. Used to bake, wasn't bad, husband was often cooking, but never baked. He started, liked it, got really good, found a couple rockstar recipes, now he's the designated baker for any bday or school thing. Yaay!

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Amy hipps
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly why can't she just be happy? He wasn't even thinking of upstaging her.

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