I’ve read through a lot of posts on this particular subreddit, and if there are two topics that come up the most, they’re in-laws and money.

Not always together, but sometimes they are.

Money makes people act in completely unexpected ways for reasons you wouldn’t even guess, like in this story from Reddit user @evilwife2018.

AITA for telling my boyfriend’s friend’s fiancé I didn’t pay for the couple trip?

So I (24F) went on a trip with my bf (27M) and his friend (26M) along with his fiancé (25F).

This happened last weekend that fallout is active.

We assume she means “the fallout is still active,” meaning everyone is still upset, but maybe they were just playing the video game a lot.

Anyway:

I was told the fiancé planned the cabin trip and this was my first time meeting her so upon meeting her I said thanks for planning everything.

The cabin was so beautiful, great location and amenities so great choice on her part.

I’m gushing over her planning skills and asking for tips as I’m in charge of planning a trip with my bf in 5 weeks.

The fiancé casually mentions the price of the cabin and that it was a steal and I’m sure I’m glad it was so cheap split 4 ways.

I told her it didn’t make me any difference as I wasn’t paying anyway.

She got quiet when I said that for a few minutes but we resumed the good vibes so I didn’t think anything of it

The vibes, however, quickly soured in an odd direction:

The whole weekend she’s giving her fiancé the cold shoulder (according to my bf)

It turns into us 3 vs the friend since she was hanging out with me most of the trip and my bf like to be under me too.

Like it was so bad that she’d sit with us on the sofa and make the fiancé sit by himself in the recliner chair

Every time I went to the hot tub she went or if we wanted to go on a morning walk she would come too without waking her fiancé.

I didn’t notice anything weird since this is my first time meeting and interacting with them, so I didn’t understand how their relationship works.

I just thought maybe they’re not affectionate.

So, what was going on here?

Fast forward to today, my bf gets a call from his friend [angry] that I told his fiancé I didn’t pay anything.

This apparently “ruined” his trip as his fiancé felt (and said this in private to him) that she felt embarrassed to sleep with him or be affectionate to him in front of us since I’m so well taken care of by my partner and she doesn’t feel the same.

My bf was in shock and is mostly a listener so he didn’t really defend me but said to keep the peace he’ll ask I no longer discuss finances with his fiancé.

And what’s to be done about it?

I said okay but still wondering if I was the [jerk] to mention it on the trip.

Everyone had already paid, we were already there to have a good time so maybe I should have just focused on that instead of who paid for what so AITA?

Let’s go to the comments.

One thing’s for sure, she’s not in the wrong here:

Or she is, but slightly:

Or she is, but so is this other guy:

Or just very much her:

…or she’s not:

I guess there’s not a whole lot clear here, when you get down to it.

But probably discussing money is just a touchy subject overall.

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.