On My Wedding Night, My Father-in-Law Walked Into Our Bedroom With a Pillow—Then I Learned My Husband Had Helped Him Plan It
They aren’t.
Because boundaries work best before the situation becomes extreme.
I could have said:
No, Ernest is not sleeping in our room.
Full sentence.
No historical investigation required.
No proof the tradition was fake.
Even if every Mercer man since 1740 had spent wedding nights in other people’s beds, I still could have said: