Lake houses are supposed to be peaceful escapes away from the real world, but uninvited guests can quickly turn tranquility into turmoil.

When a woman’s in-laws showed up on a cold winter weekend demanding hospitality in an unprepared home, her patience hit an icy patch.

Read on for the full story!

AITA for leaving my husband at our lake house with his family.

My husband and I own a lake house that we spend most of our free time at when it’s warm.

We go there over the winter to check on it and do any basic maintenance that is required.

It is not set up for winter living.

Usually, the couple is well-equipped for hosting.

We often invite friends and family over.

We have almost two acres of land and there is lots of room to park an RV or set up a tent.

The house has a septic tank for the toilet.

All the other water goes to a grey water tank we use for the garden and lawn.

We only use bio-safe products.

We have a very well built and ventilated outhouse for when we have people over.

But having a lake house also requires lots of prep work.

So last weekend was the one where we went out to get the house ready for the spring and summer.

We ordered the water truck to fill our tank.

The propane guys to fill up that tank.

We ran water through the pipes to flush them out and get them ready to use.

Then came unexpected visitors, much to the wife’s dismay.

My husband’s mom and dad showed up with his brother and his family.

This would be fine, except it was a cold and crappy weekend.

So they didn’t want to set up tents and stay outside.

I asked my husband why they were here.

He said that he told them we were going out and they sort of invited themselves out.

They then had the nerve to ask why nothing was ready.

They didn’t bring out much besides some sandwiches and a bunch of beer.

They didn’t understand why we didn’t have any of the water toys ready.

THERE WAS STILL ICE ON THE LAKE.

So she asks her husband to reason with them, which started a whole new conflict.

I asked my husband to tell them that we were not ready for guests and that they needed to leave or help.

He wouldn’t do it.

There was only one thing left for her to do.

So I left.

I said I needed to run to the store.

I took my car and went to the grocery store five blocks from my house.

It is an asian market with great sushi.

I think my husband expected me to just be going to the gas station a mile from the lake.

I left him out there to prep the house and deal with his guests.

Now the husband is the one with the nerve.

He is upset now that I left without telling him that I wasn’t coming back.

That he had to do all the work by himself.

That he had to clean the house by himself.

He said his family thought I was rude not to stick around and host, but I did not invite them.

She tells him once again all the reasons why they can’t host this weekend.

I told him that the house was not ready for guests.

I told him that we did not have enough toilet paper for eight people.

He knew that we only had food for the two of us for the weekend.

I think it’s his fault and his problem.

Should I have sucked it up and taken one for the team or AITA?

Her husband’s refusal to help with his family turned a bad situation to worse.

What did redditors have to say?

The husband had a clear role here and he blew it.

Her in-laws have quite the nerve to be throwing around the word “rude”.

In no reality is this a fair arrangement.

This commenter thinks the lake house owner should let her family know she’s upset to try and nip this behavior in the bud.

She wasn’t about to let his family’s unplanned arrival sink her productive weekend, so she left him to weather the storm of hosting on his own.

Uninvited guests often come with uninvited consequences.

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.