Planning a wedding is no mean feat. Couples are forced to juggle the invites, venue, cake and schedule, while dodging family dramas and appeasing relatives. But one infuriated woman claims her fiancé took this a step too far, allowing his mother to call the shots when it came to their big day.

Before delving into her concerns, the Redditor confessed she'd been 'mean' in this situation, leaving her partner of seven years distraught amid their marriage disaster. But his distress certainly didn't stop her from laying down the law, warning that she can't be with a man that doesn't have a 'backbone'.

"I'm not going to try and swing this in my favour here by leaving out details or sugar coating anything," she posted anonymously on social media. "I've been with my fiancé for seven years and we have been engaged for three years.

"We have gone ahead and tried to do a 'save the date' four times now and every single time, his mom convinces him to postpone."

While the mother didn't appear to have a problem with her son's choice of partner, she always claimed they had 'bigger things to worry about' - whether this be money, their living situation or another issue. But the woman implies these 'problem's' weren't really concerns at all, as she's a lawyer and her husband's a nurse, raking in 'plenty of money'.

"It's just always something," she continued. "...her newest argument is that we "need" to wait until our daughter is 'at least three' so she can be our flower girl (she's seven months old)."

After a lot of back-and-forth, the couple had officially saved an August date for their wedding this year - set to take place in the mother's backyard to limit costs. And this was all going to plan until last weekend, while choosing what the Matron of Honour might wear.

She continued: "Last weekend my mother and his mother both came for dinner and I was talking to my mom about what dress I wanted her to wear as the Matron of Honour. My [fiancé's] mom asked when we planned to tell her we had decided on a date and my [fiancé] said 'when we told everyone else'.

"She just said 'oh' and got quiet and took leave maybe 20 minutes later. He had already made plans to go over to her house after dinner to help her with her cable box so he left shortly after that to head over to her place while I drank some wine with my mom."

When her fiancé came back, the woman said he was 'super quiet', before later confessing that his 'mom kind of had a point', suggesting they should delay the wedding until they were no longer renting.

In that moment, the ex bride-to-be finally snapped. She continued: "I just took my ring off and handed it to him and said I was no longer interested. He immediately started protesting and trying to put the ring back on my finger and I wouldn't let him.

"I said I was no longer interested in marrying him and maybe he should move back home with mommy because I know for a fact that woman will make up another excuse the second we buy a house...He ended up leaving, sobbing the entire time. I do feel bad. I feel gutted. He means everything to me. But I can't do this anymore."

The anonymous post has since been met with thousands of comments, with many users left stunned by the mother-in-law's sphere of influence. One person wrote: "He's repeatedly made it clear that his mother's opinion is more important than yours, he's going to have a very lonely life if he doesn't learn to cut the cord and have some boundaries."

Another added: "Only you can make the judgment of when enough is enough," as someone else chimed in: "You would be spending the rest of your life competing with her and begging for him to stand up for you and your relationship. Honestly, it sounds like you dodged a bullet."

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