What’s better than a little quality time with the family?

Quality time that doesn’t involve passive-aggressive fights, that’s what.

Everyone agrees that family time is great, but this person’s mother-in-law is just trying to ruin it.

Check out the details below.

AITA? MIL wants to take friends on family vacation.

Each year, my wife and I rent a large beach house and invite along family for a vacation getaway.

We’re spending about the same as we would on a two-person international vacation; with the added benefit that we get to share it with our mothers.

I also invite a close friend of mine who is more or less family at this point.

This year, some additional family from my side are attending.

But then, some others pop into the picture.

Over the last couple years, MIL has become increasingly vocal about wanting to invite a couple that she and her partner are friends with.

We do not know these people.

More importantly, my wife seems worried that this will detract from quality time with her mother.

I’m told she voiced this to her mother weeks ago, and we thought that was the end of it.

For some reason, she just won’t let it go.

However yesterday it came up again.

My wife is distraught that her mother is pressing it, and I’m increasingly perturbed with this insistence of inviting someone that we don’t even know on a vacation that we’re paying for.

I can tell that the guilt trip is having an effect on my wife, but in my mind she made her decision when she put this to rest with her mother weeks ago – that she wants to keep that time within the family.

Can they take the trip and keep the peace?

My instinct is to reach out to MIL directly and tell her in a straightforward way, “No.”

What say you, Reddit? AITA?

Most people thought this person was definitely not in the wrong:

Gotta lay down the law, I guess.

Although some did warn to approach it all with sensitivity.

Ultimately, you’re footing the bill.

The hosts have the most.

Here’s hoping it turns out to be a good trip one way or another.

Or that they can get their mother-in-law to come around.

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