Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : First, some background.  I'm a pretty laid back guy and generally I don't let things bother me.  My wife, however, is more sensitive to how other people treat her.  I have 2 kids and my brother has 1.  My mother DOTES on the one child (my brother's), and to some extent ignores my children.  When my children excel at something, there is usually a comment about how the golden child can do that easily or how that thing is actually not very hard.  The golden child is showered with gifts, while my children are lucky if my mom remembers their birthday.  Oh, and my mother takes care of the golden child (babysits daily, drives him to classes, pays for classes) and maybe sees my children once a month.  This is partly because my brother is a single parent and doesn't really take care of his kid.  In general this has not bothered me, but my wife doesn't like the fact that my mother is not treating all her grandchildren equally.  

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Fast forward a few years and all this behavior continues.  My mom then falls and breaks her hip and requires surgery.  When we are looking where she can go recuperate, I tell her she can't come to my house to recuperate. She likely wanted to come to my house because my wife is a stay at home mom and thus would be around all the time to help her out.  I can't recall the excuse I used but the real reason was my wife didn't want the stress of 1) being told her children are not as good as the golden child and 2) having the golden child now babysat at our house because that's where my mother would be and 3) seeing that differential treatment in her face on a daily basis.  She returned to her own house for recuperation.  

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So was I an asshole?  

  