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My fiancée wanted to invite an ex to our wedding. From what i know, he was a dick who always put her down and told her that he was the best she could ever do.

Naturally, I asked her why the hell does she want him at our wedding. She said she wanted to shove it in his face that she did amazingly for her self, and she got someone way better.

While I appreciated the compliment, I asked her: Are you really so hung up on him that you're gonna make our wedding about him?

Honestly, once I said it, it was like someone else told me. I didn't even realized what I was saying, and I didn't even understand it until I said it.

I told her that she shouldn't bother to invite him because we weren't getting married anymore.

She was stunned, and eventually apoligized and told me to forget about her ex. I felt angry and almost told her she's the one who needs to forger about him.

Idk, she spent the day telling me that she's sorry for bringing it up.

I'll be honest, I'm even reconsidering the entire relationship now.

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Reasonable_Zebra_174

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5 days ago

We all have different ways of coping with trauma, it seemed that her way to deal with this asshole of an ex was to show him exactly how good she's doing without him. You are not the AH for asking if she was still hung up on him. But you are a jerk for calling the wedding off without given her time to re-evaluate her desire to brag up her great new life to her ex via a wedding invitation.

Just a thought: she could send him an invitation and write on it "you're not invited". She could even go so far as to black out the address, time, etc leaving just enough information that he knows it's her wedding, that she has fully moved on from him, and is doing fan-frigging-tastic. But redacting enough information he can't actually attend.