AITA for correcting my daughter-in-law's grammar in front of her whole family at Thanksgiving?
My son Mark (38M) married Denise (36F) six years ago and she has never much liked me, which is fine, I do not need to be liked, only respected. Last Thursday she hosted Thanksgiving at their house and had printed place cards for all twelve of us. Mine read "Walter" and next to it she had written "less guests this year, more family" as some kind of toast line she planned to read aloud. I pointed out, quietly, before anyone sat down, that it should be "fewer guests" since guests are countable, not "less." I was not trying to embarrass her. She read the card aloud anyway, correctly this time, but her mother Carol, who was visiting from Ohio, heard me correct her in the kitchen and apparently that was the actual crime. Denise did not speak to me through the entire meal. Afterward Mark called me and said I "humiliated his wife over nothing" and that I do this constantly, that I corrected her wedding vows draft seven years ago too and she has never forgotten it. Now Denise is saying I am not welcome at Christmas unless I apologize for "trying to make her feel stupid in her own home." I do not think pointing out a grammar error, privately, before guests arrived, counts as an attack. My late wife always said I could not help myself with this sort of thing. I am starting to wonder if she was being kinder about it than I realized.
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