Husband forgets wife's birthday but refuses to take accountability, instead blames it on 26-year-old stepdaughter for not reminding him: ‘You should have warned me’

Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor

Jul 21, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

How can someone, in this day and age, forget the birthday of a person so close to them? Never mind the fact that their birthday should be seared into their memories, making it impossible to skip over, but we have so many technological advancements that ensure no one's birthday goes unnoticed, so how does that still happen to people with their loved ones every single day?

It doesn't even require that much effort. All you have to do is put it into your phone's calendar, set it to repeat every year, and you're good. You can even set reminders for the week or the day before, so you can make those dinner reservations, or order the birthday gift you have sitting in your Amazon cart. It shouldn't be that hard.

Yet, for many people on this planet, it is hard. They still let important dates pass by them without noticing, and they hurt the people they love the most in the process.

Is it anyone's fault but their own? We think not, but the stepfather in the story below would beg to differ.

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The husband in the story below has been married to his wife for two years, and already he has gotten so comfortable in the relationship that he has allowed himself to forget her birthday.
Not only that, he also refused to take accountability for his mess up, and instead blamed his stepchildren for not reminding him themselves…
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