Wife upset after husband ate her birthday cupcakes

A woman has been left feeling “hurt and disappointed” over her husband’s birthday act after what was a “stressful” week.

“My birthday was this week. It was a few days after my works’ biggest fundraiser of the year. So very stressful,” she shared on Reddit’s ‘Am I The A**hole’ thread.

“My work team met on my bday to rehash the event. And they surprised me with specialty cupcakes. (Not cheap grocery store cupcakes.) They sent me home with the three extra.”

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When she arrived home she found her husband “putting candles on a cake he got me”.

“It was a cheap grocery store cake. He clearly didn’t plan ahead and bought one already prepared and had them put my name on it. Whatever,” she said.

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She explained they were “not able to celebrate my bday together, as he went to his son’s game”.

“So I went out to eat with my kids,” she said.

“We go home and had the cake he bought me. My husband got home when I was going to bed. He asked me how the cake was. I was honest – it was dry, not great,” the woman continued.

So far, not ideal, but it’s what happened next that set her off.

“I get home from work today, was looking forward to a specialty cupcake. They were gone. He ate all 3 within 24 hours. Didn’t leave me any,” she said.

“When I told him that made me mad. He said I didn’t tell him what cake I wanted. He did not ask me – but as a mother, why must I plan everything. Even for my own birthday?!”

She asked the forum if she is the a**hole for “being hurt and disappointed and telling him”.

She added that her husband was “mad at me about me being mad” which felt frustrating but she stood her ground.

“It’s as thoughtless as you think it is,” one Redditor said.

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“It’s interesting that he ate the cupcakes but not the leftover cake. I understand him maybe eating 1 of the cupcakes but all 3 of them?”

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“I’m sorry. He should have texted her if it would be alright if he ate ONE of her cupcakes,” another said.

Another suggested a more sinister motivation than simple greed, suggesting the husband did it “purely out of spite because she didn’t appreciate the last minute store-bought cake he got for her”.

“The fact that his response to her expressing her being upset about the cupcakes was immediately about the cake makes it very clear. He did it to retaliate about her honest disappointment when he asked if she liked the cake,” they continued.

“It was to punish her for not being grateful for his mediocre effort.”

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Another said: “Either that or he didn’t want the dry, cheap cake either.”

“I don’t think it was thoughtless at all,” one Redditer said. “He made the decision three separate times to pick up a cupcake and eat it.”

“Why are so many people just lazy and selfish? You have known each other long enough to get married but he can’t either remember what sort of cake or ask you a simple f**king question,” another lamented.

The wife returned to the post with an update, saying her husband has since “apologised several times and bought me four of the exact cupcakes he ate” adding, “They are ALL mine”.

“In fact I just ate one!” she added.

She also explained he had given her a card and a small gift with the original, dry, store-bought cake, explaining he had ordered something larger but shipping was delayed.

“It’s supposed to arrive today. I have no idea what it is, but I’ve learned not to have any kind of expectation. Though he told me it’s very nice,” she added.

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