AITA for only paying for my wife and I at a restaurant?
I (24m) and my wife (24f) are newlywed couples. My wife has 4 friends who she has been really close with since school. For a celebration my wife decided to go to an expensive steak house.
The day comes and we go in separate cars there. We all eat and my wife slides the bill (700+) and proceeds to say. “The man should always pay for the wife and her friends.”
I laugh awkwardly saying why. She says because I’m the man. I tell her that the only other person I would pay for would be you and me. Her friends proceeded to laugh at me calling me a broke husband. I stand up and put the money for me and my wife’s food and leave.
My wife gets home and starts screaming at me. Saying I made her feel embarrassed. How she promised her friends I’d pay. And that her friends made fun for her on the ride home for marrying a man who can’t pay the bill.
I decided to pack a bag and head to my friends house. I told my parents/friends and they say I should have just payed it. Now I’m having second thoughts if I over reacted.
Edit 1: Hi guys, I’ve read someone comments if my wife has ever acted like this. And she never has that why I just laughed awkwardly.
The only other time she did this was when I didn’t buy her mom food. Which happened when we first started dating. And it was the first time she ever screamed at me like that. Instead of escalating it, I just left. And when we do argue it’s not a screaming match.
I read some comments and decided to go talk to her tomorrow about what happened, why she did that etc.
I do recognize that I didn’t pay the full amount of me and my wife’s dinner. I do take fault in that. I should have added another 50-75 dollars to make it the price of 2 people.