Let’s face it: child-free houses are very different to houses filled with kids.

The silence. The cleanliness. The order.

So what happens when you introduce a young family into a child-free couple’s home?

Well that’s exactly what the couple in this story are about to find out.

Read on to see how it went down.

AITA for doing childproofing for my in-laws visit?

I am 26 and my husband is 29.

We have been married for five years and we moved to Berlin right after we got married, since we both found really well paying jobs.

Meanwhile both of our families (parents, siblings etc) still live back in Greece and we visit occasionally.

My husband and I don’t have any children and we don’t plan to have any.

We enjoy buying expensive things and experiencing things that we were never able to as children: nice furniture in our home, going to exotic restaurants with friends, travel, hobbies.

We just enjoy our life with each other exactly the way it is.

But that’s just how my husband and I thinks.

His family, however, is very traditional and every married couple has at least one kid.

Let’s see what happened to cause discord in their marriage.

Recently, my husband invited my brother- and sister-in-law to visit us with their three year old son for two weeks.

This would be the first time they’ve travelled with their son, and the first time we would be hosting our nephew in our home.

Now our nephew is known to be going through the terrible twos, and has been throwing tantrums and breaking things lately.

So I did some childproofing in our home the day before my in-laws were due to arrive.

I removed all the glass and ceramic decor.

I swapped out our linen tablecloth for a plastic one.

I covered our sofas with a plushy fabric cover (our sofa fabric is white cashmere) because our nephew likes to snack while watching tv, and we can always take it outside and dust of food crumbs.

I also changed my maid’s schedule to come in five days a week instead of three so she can help prep breakfast and make sure the house is tidy.

Read on to find out how the husband reacted.

However, when my husband saw all of the changes I made, he kind of got upset.

He told me he felt that I was preparing our house as if we were hosting messy and uncivilized people, and asked me why I don’t make these changes when our friends in Berlin who have kids come over for dinner.

He also said that he’s never seen our friends make these sort of changes in their own homes for their kids.

I don’t understand this comparison at all.

Coming over for dinner for three hours and staying at a place for a couple of weeks is very different.

And we’ve visited our in-laws enough to see how chaotic their home can get, to the point where my brother- and sister-in-law keep mostly plastic items in their homes for convenience.

AITA?

It sounds like their home is expensively furnished, and not child-appropriate at all.

Surely the wife’s actions were in the best interests of everyone?

Let’s find out what Reddit thought.

This person agreed that the wife had acted considerately and sensibly.

While another Redditor suggested that the husband should be much more appreciative of his wife’s actions.

The consensus was that she’d acted in the best interests of everyone involved.

And even if the husband didn’t appreciate it, the sister-in-law would.

While it might have helped to tell her husband what she was doing, the wife was doing the best thing for everyone.

Her husband needs to be more appreciative.

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.