I recently invited some people to dinner, who I thought we got on well with.
They seemed quite genuine and we wanted to get to know them more so I invited them for dinner.
I'll admit that domesticity isn't my strong point - I work hard and I work long hours. Generally I don't bother with entertaining people at home, but if I like someone and think we have stuff in common and think they are genuinely nice then I think they'll overlook my culinary failings.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I invited this couple over, we had a great time (so I thought). Then I found out from an acquaintance that the meal I'd cooked had been discussed and torn apart by a bunch of other mothers.
Worse still, these other mothers all got together to suggest ways to ridicule me when we were invited back to dinner. This extended even to making notes through the meal funny things to report back on and even googling so see how much the wine we brought cost (wtf?)
AIBU reasonable to think that this is quite a spiteful thing to do, or is this usual behaviour?