Husband Flips Out and Cancels Shallow Wife’s Expensive Birthday Dinner After She Asks Stepson to Leave the Handmade Gift He Made Her at Home Because It Was “Too Embarrassing”

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    Font - Posted by u/dice267990 13 hours ago 2 2 AITA for cancelling the birthday party I planned to throw for my wife after what she did?
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    Font - I (M36) remarried after my late wife passed away. I have a son (15). My current wife and I have been together for 2 years. She generally has a good relationship with my son although they tend to have some disagreements from time to time.
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    Font - My son has background in arts that involve wood. He used to help his grandfather with his woodworking and learned how to make hand made wooden items and use them as gifts.
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    Font - I planned a dinner party for my wife's birthday at a prestigous restaurant. The day before the party, she was cleaning my son's room and saw what he got her for her birthday and that was a wooden tree with mine, hers, and his name on it.
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    Plant - She talked with him and told him while she thought it was a sweet gift, she asked that he don't bring it to the restaurant and give it to her there. Why? No idea.
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    Font - When my son told me this I just had to call her out on it. She flatout said that she thought the gift looked ridiculous and she didn't want it to be seen in that prestigous restaurant, and infront of her guests. I lost it on her and told her she should be ashamed of herself for saying this when my son was being sincere and thoughtful. She swore she wasn't "ashamed" nor "embarrassed" by his work and even said she'll take the gift but she "simply" didn't want it to be seen there. I told her
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    Font - She went off on me calling me unreasonable for outright cancelling her birthday over such trivial thing. I refused to keep arguing but she threw a fit about how I ruined her birthday and made her lose respect for me and my promises.
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    Font - My son kept the gift since she left thd house 2 days ago, and her mom has been chewing me out for my decision and calling me an asshole for treating her daughter like this.
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    Font - It could be that it was not a big deal and I overreacted, but my son was feeling hurt by her request.
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    Font - ItsCool WhenThey DoIt 13 hr. ago ● Holy hell. NTA at all. Your wife doesn't sound like a very kind person at all but incredibly shallow and cruel. This calls for a "What the hell is wrong with her?"
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    Font - Shprintze613 11 hr. ago She sounds like the step mother from parent trap, almost caricature-ly cruel. I thought it was a TV stereotype, I guess it's not :(
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    Font - Sweet Bang_Tube ● 10 hr. ago Stepparents like this give the rest of us a bad name. I can't tell you how much I would value and be proud of a homemade gift made by my stepson showing our names as a family unit! That would mean the WORLD to me and I would show everyone who would be willing to look. Good Goddess I am crying just thinking about it!
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    Font - DrRiverSong45 12 hr. ago A 15 year old hand made a birthday gift for his step mother? I don't know if she can see it's actually 2 gifts. One, obviously the tree itself and two the thought and work he put into it. NTA she can plan her own party.
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    Font - Mother-Efficiency391 11 hr. ago. edited 6 hr. ago Partassipant [3] That and the fact that the 15 year old boy who lost his mother before step mom came into the picture only 2 years ago feels strongly enough about her to put all their names on a tree, making it a family tree, saying he sees her as family. She should be crying tears of joy and parading that tree around town shouting from the roof tops how much it means to her. Instead she just ruined his trust, affections for her and possib
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    Font - Op NTA and you never will be for putting your son first. Edit to add: she likely also just ruined his love of woodworking and has him questioning every piece he's ever given. Next time he goes to think about making something, it'll probably no longer bring him the joy it did thinking about his grandfather. Now it'll be tainted with this incident.
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    Font - Crazyspitz 13 hr. ago Partassipant [1] NTA. your son? How long has she hated/resented This was just incredibly cruel, and at a time in his life where he really needs to feel like the adults in his life love, value, and respect him. I hope you take some extra time with him, because that's got to hurt pretty badly.

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