They say you don’t just marry a person; you marry into a family. So TikToker Keely Grace Gaffney decided to learn more about her future in-laws.
During the holidays, she and her fiancé orchestrated a situation at the table, where he started throwing rude comments at her in an attempt to see what his mother’s reaction would be and whose side she would take.
Keely secretly recorded the exchange, and the outcome gave her valuable insight into her future family dynamics.
Keely, 22, has known her fiancé Nash, 26, for two years
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And now that they’re getting married, the couple decided to see whose side Nash’s mom would take if he suddenly became mean to Keely
keely1123: Can you pass me the butter, please?
Fiancé: The thing is already soaked in butter; do you really think you need more butter? It’s like a lot of calories. You were supposed to be on a fitness thing anyway.
MIL: Excuse me. Hey, who raised you?
Fiancé: You did.
MIL: I did and I did not raise you to be talking to her like that. She asked you for something—you need to get it for her.
Fiancé: I was trying to help her out; it’s for her benefit.
MIL: She doesn’t need you counting her calories or intake of her butter. She wants butter; she can have butter.
Fiancé: She was supposed to turn over a new leaf this next New Year; she’s just not paying attention, apparently.
MIL: Who are you? Seriously, who are you? Because you are not my child, I didn’t raise you like this.
Fiancé: Oh, I tried to be helpful.
MIL: Do you realize that you outkick your coverage with this girl?
Fiancé: Oh, I don’t know about that. You sure about that one?
MIL: I don’t understand you. I didn’t raise you to talk to her that way, to any woman that way. You don’t treat me that way.
The video has gone viral, garnering over 46 million views
@keely1123 Safe to say i have the BEST mother in law 😭 #coupleprank #prank ♬ original sound – keely grace
This wasn’t the first time the couple tried this prank on their parents
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Keely told People that even though she and Nash met two years ago and they got engaged just over a year later, this was only her second time meeting his parents in person, as they live out of state.
However, she said she and his mom Gail are “very close,” adding, “We text and call all the time.”
The bride-to-be said Gail was “very relieved” when she found out that the whole thing was just a prank.
“We’re all very sarcastic,” Keely explained. “Like, the whole family is filled with jokes, so it was easy to brush off after that.”
According to her, this wasn’t the first time she and Nash pulled this particular trick as well—they did the same thing to her own mother for a video she posted to TikTok in November.
“Her reaction was very reactive, and it kinda got a lot of hate comments,” Keely said about the original video featuring her mom. “She took my side and a lot of the comments were disagreeing, [saying] that she shouldn’t get involved in the relationship.”
“It triggered a lot of comments. This [more recent one] had a lot more positive comments, so we were excited to see that,” she added.
And people have had a lot of different reactions to it
