So, lets start with background. I have been living with my girlfriend for about 2 years now. About 8 months ago, we decided to get a house together, with a marriage to follow soon after. The house is considerably closer to her parents’ house than our old apartment. On the day we moved in, her father brought us a mezuzah for the front door to put outside. I am not Jewish and neither is she, we are both Christians who don’t attend church. He is the only Jewish one, and he converted to Judaism from Christianity. We tried to tell him that it wouldn’t really make sense for us to hang it, but he insisted that we needed to. It got close to an argument.
Since then, he has brought many more Jewish religious items into our house and insisted we keep them. Neither me nor my girlfriend were big fans, but we didn’t want to be rude. He was very enthusiastic. As of a few weeks ago, most of the house was decorated with Jewish imagery, and he was still bringing more. I didn’t want to say anything direct, and neither did my girlfriend. We wanted to avoid awkward confrontation. I’ve repeatedly told him as nicely as I can that neither of us are Jewish and that we don’t need these items.
Over time, I began to get feelings of anxiety. About two weeks ago, I had an extended feeling of being trapped. A house that me and my girlfriend paid for was being decorated in a way we didn’t want, and we had no recourse that wouldn’t cause problems. I got very upset thinking about how it was supposed to be our house to decorate. My girlfriend had planned such a nice aesthetic, and all these things from her father were impeding on it. So I took a few trash bags, threw everything in them, and put them on the curb. Trash pickup was the next day, and now it’s all gone. For a few days, I felt so relieved. It felt like the house was ours again. Then he visited.
He immediately questioned where everything was, and we got into a verbal fight when I explained what I had done. It was brief, and ended when he stormed out of the house. My girlfriend stayed out of the argument. Since then, he has not visited. AITA?