You never know how someone is gonna react when they get surprised by something.

In this case, a woman’s stepson told her something so shocking that all she could do was laugh.

Was she wrong for how she reacted?

Get all the details below and see what you think!

AITA for laughing at my stepson and ruining his wedding?

“I have been married to my husband for just over 20 years.

We started dating when my stepkids were 5 and 3. Our kids are: Adam (28, stepkid #1), Ben (26, stepkid #2), Charles (20), David (17), and Ellie (13).

Adam is getting married at the end of summer to his fiancé Alice (27). We have all been very excited for them. All of the kids have roles for the wedding, Charles is the best man, the other two boys are groomsman, and Ellie is a junior bridesmaid.

Now there are some problems…

Last weekend we had a dinner for my husband’s birthday, all of the kids attended along with Alice. The topic of the wedding came up again, and this is where it started to go downhill.

Ellie brought up that she was SO excited to go dress shopping and that we planned to go to a bigger city in a few weeks to get her a dress and me a stepmom of the groom dress.

At that, Alice looked at Adam sideways and responded that we only needed to worry about one dress, Ellie’s. Ellie kind of laugh and said “what are you expecting mom to wear? A suit?”

WOW.

Alice responded with “(My name) isn’t going. You know we are keeping our guest list very limited to only family and a few close friends.”

WHAT.

Adam and Alice have been to our house numerous times for holidays, dinners, just to say hi since they’ve been engaged, this has never been brought up.

Pretty quickly things escalated. The cliff notes version is that Charles asked them to clarify if they were choosing to uninvite me now or if I was never invited. Alice confirmed the latter.

Why?

This is pretty sad.

Adam said it’s because I’m not his mom. Charles, David, and Ellie argued with Adam and Alice that none of them were going to go if I wasn’t invited.

That it was cruel to leave me out given I’ve been his parent for a majority of his life and loved him like my own. My husband and I admittedly sat there for a minute just shocked.

Adam finally turned to my husband and said, “well?” My husband told him he wouldn’t be going either. Adam then turned to me and asked if I was really going to let everyone ruin his wedding on my behalf.

There was only one reaction she could muster.

Here’s where I might be the *******: I just laughed. I don’t know what came over me but the entire thing was just so ridiculous that laughing was the only thing I could get out. I told my husband I’d be waiting in the car and left. And then promptly bawled my eyes out.

Anyways, Charles, David and Ellie are not talking to Adam. Adam called my husband yesterday to try and smooth things over. He was still adamant I’m not invited and it’s their wedding. He also requested I apologize for laughing at him.

My husband told him, tough ****. It’s their wedding and they can invite whoever they want, but they can’t control who will actually go. He said THEY owe ME an apology and that Adam should be ashamed of himself.

I’m getting texts now asking what I did and why I’m being a “step monster and ruining the wedding.”

AITA?”

And this is what Reddit users had to say.

This person sounded off.

Another reader spoke up.

This Reddit user shared their thoughts.

Another person spoke up.

And this individual chimed in.

Sometimes when you’re so upset, all you can do is laugh…

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