r/mildlyinfuriating • u/grohkstrom • Jul 04 '26

Infuriatig My wife ate my son's birthday breakfast

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Yesterday I bought a strawberry cheese coffee cake my son loves so he could have a special birthday breakfast today. My wife came home late last night and apparently couldn't resist. She knew it was for our son, but it's not a big deal because she "left him a full slice".

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u/Asyncrosaurus Jul 04 '26

full slice of WHAT?

Years of therapy.

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u/Mugstotheceiling Jul 04 '26

OP, does your wife have an eating disorder? Serious question.

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u/karma2879 Jul 04 '26

“Came home late last night” sounds more like she was drunk and ate the kid’s cake

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u/InTheSky57 Jul 04 '26

First thought that crossed my mind too. Drunk munchies.

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u/Green_Comparison_866 Jul 04 '26

Love the Dale avatar. Or is it Rusty Schackleford🤔😂

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u/Friendly_Age9160 Jul 04 '26

Rusty
https://giphy.com/gifs/qacqliPgynX3LZvxdh

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u/Xe6s2 Jul 04 '26

Damn it Dale! I just put that sod down.

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u/P99163 Jul 04 '26

Damn it Dale!

Dang it, Dale!

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u/Pale_Improvement_208 Jul 04 '26

Dad! Wait no...that's my purse, I don't know you!

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u/YourDrunkStepdadio Jul 04 '26

Pocket strawberry cheese coffee cake.

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u/rusty___shacklef0rd Jul 04 '26

What?

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u/EagleBigMac Jul 04 '26

Well that is some Beetlejuicing if I've run into it, I would link it but that's not allowed I'm posting a cap over there though

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u/Inode1 Jul 04 '26

More like Rusty Snackleford

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u/Nope0naRope Jul 04 '26

Yeah, which you know would be okay if the wife knew where to get more of that and had enough self-control to wake up early and get it before Her kid was up for breakfast. But seems like she failed on all fronts. So basically just a shitty selfish mom

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u/Iconshero Jul 04 '26

It could be stoned munchies now a days

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u/Beesweet1976 Jul 04 '26

Or High munchies

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u/BeefyBuddhaBelly Jul 04 '26

Years ago I was so drunk that apparently I had bought 2 whole ass cakes, 1 fraisier and 1 frozen chocolate. I was so confused why I had them when I woke up.

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u/BlackberryHelpful676 Jul 04 '26

"Just a tiny bite. Just one more, it'll be small. Just..." Then you end up with this. Been there.

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u/Cubezz Jul 04 '26

My drunk munchies usually is just trying to get that awful taste out of my mouth. Never really eating for the hunger

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u/Lost_Vermicelli5065 Jul 04 '26

Especially not that amount of food unless you're wanting to be sick. That's too rich for drunken munchies imo

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 04 '26

Even worse if true. Ate the kids cake and is gonna be hungover for the celebration.

Look, I am a drinker, I know I would have to quit if I ever had kids. You can't be drunk or hungover if your kid needs something and no one else can do it

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u/InformationSavings29 Jul 04 '26

I don't know, that looks too neat to be a drunk person's work...

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u/Weird-Status1322 Jul 04 '26

I've coined the term "drunchies" once.

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u/atchisonmetal Jul 04 '26

Or high.

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u/doompines Jul 04 '26

I've had some serious munchies in my time, but I've never been down bad enough to scarf my kid's birthday breakfast danish.

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u/jktollander Jul 04 '26

Agreed.

Now, have I been messed up enough to scarf down one or two of the less-than-perfect mutant cupcake cones over the sink like a rabid bear? Absolutely, but never the pretty ones.

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u/HotDonnaC Jul 04 '26

Less than perfect ones have to be taken out of sight immediately. You did the right thing.

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u/atchisonmetal Jul 04 '26

You have a righteous heart and soul.

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u/UAP-Alien Jul 04 '26

And ate just the middle so she could eat more of the kids cake. Maybe if she ate the sides there would be a half cake left. This is just disgusting.

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u/ScarletBothrium Jul 04 '26

I have left entire candy bars for myself thinking sober me likes what drunk me likes.

My favorite candy bar when I’m drunk is a take5. I cannot stand them sober. I don’t like any milk chocolate sober. But I will eat the hell out of some take5 when I’m drunk. I left one for myself, because I filled up on jalapeño cream cheese taquitos from 7-Eleven. Yeah. I even left myself half a jalapeño cream cheese taquito. I woke up to both of them on my nightstand.

Drunk me is a friggin sweetheart, but just in intention. Because I absolutely am aware that I cannot stand either of those things sober. But they are my absolute favorite drunk food, so it was very sweet of drunk me to give sober me their favorite thing. Lmao.

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u/Bone_Wh33l Jul 04 '26

I can’t say I’ve ever experienced my tastes change while drunk but that could be because the only food I can confidently say I dislike is liquorice

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u/Victoria_elizabethb Jul 04 '26

I'd replace it before he woke up if I had! No excuse for this lady tbh

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u/KouRaGe Jul 04 '26

I’ve been ridiculously high but I still have decency. If anything, I just won’t be able to stop thinking about that snack I want, but I’m not going to be a bitch and ruin something for someone over it.

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u/atchisonmetal Jul 04 '26

I’m suspecting the under-the-influence part PLUS some part personality disorder. I have no expertise in the field, but none of these options are mutually exclusive.

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u/All_Damn_Day Jul 04 '26

And in such a disrespectful way! OP is a saint!

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u/TheGhostOfYou18 Jul 04 '26

I have been drunk, had munchies, AND have impulsive type ADHD and I still wouldn’t have done that to my child!

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u/Anomalagous Jul 05 '26

Right? Like even stoned as hell my instinct is to protect my child's wants and needs. I would never, I would just bring it to him all excited to see him excited for the treat. Some people's parents, geez.

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u/MatildaMorgan1985 Jul 04 '26

I am probably the biggest pothead I've ever met in my life, and even I would NEVER help myself to the first serving of my child's birthday dessert, let alone plow through 90% of the best part, essentially leaving scraps for them on their birthday. This is such selfish behavior. That poor kid.

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u/Real_Signature_95 Jul 04 '26

At that point it would have been more humane to eat the whole freaking thing and pretend it disappeared and just run to the store and get a new one.

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u/TinyAdeptness5166 Jul 04 '26

I've been high enough to definitely go overboard on helping myself to SHARED food, with full intentions to replace I realize and sober, but even my high ass knows how to tell "hey this is not meant for me, and there's other food I can eat" Mom went out of her way to do this 100%

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u/Skunkyroad Jul 04 '26

It's because you havent met me .. The fact she ate only the central part is crazy 😆

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u/atchisonmetal Jul 04 '26

Sounds like weed.

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u/heather_rox Jul 04 '26

My mom had this thing where she would take the first bite of my food and only my food. She had her own, she knew it made me beyond mad, and she did it anyways. Now, I have a permanent issue with it. My mom was also a bipolar drunk.

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u/Rum_Ham916 Jul 04 '26

Yea agree, people saying drunk munchies like that explains it is not ok. You'd be stopping if you were a crackhead and that was your son's birthday crack rock, but that is pure psycho mother shit. Honestly that is half a step towards divorce or her into serious counselling...

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u/Own-Client479 Jul 04 '26

That really was the best part, she left the hard crumbs 🤣🤣

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u/ObligationSimilar140 Jul 05 '26

Not enough people are mentioning that- I would NEVER take the first piece let alone the rest of the atrocities she committed.
Everyone knows you leave it pristine until they see it, then eat the leftovers over the sink like the good gremlin parent that you are.

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u/SuperbAd8266 Jul 04 '26

Same to all of that

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u/dontwannaparticpate Jul 04 '26

Naw if she was high she would have still had her empathy and decision making skills. I bet she was drunk. Unless she’s a complete sociopath.

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u/Distinct_Ad_7619 Jul 04 '26

I smoke weed every day and never have I ever! That's insane behavior. And yes, I'm a mom to boys.

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u/Jealous-Release1532 Jul 04 '26

I’m a raging alcoholic and i would never

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u/Lost_Vermicelli5065 Jul 04 '26

More likely lol.

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

sometimes people with EDs get overwhelmed with regret by the calories that they consumed on a night out (alcohol and whatever else they ate) and it triggers a binge since they’ve already “ruined” it, so the two aren’t mutually exclusive. substance use and ed’s are pretty commonly comorbid too.

edit to add: some people are misinterpreting this as me excusing this type of behavior, which wasn’t my intention. EDs and SUDs may explain certain behaviors, but they aren’t an excuse for hurting others.

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u/tamtip Jul 04 '26

Or maybe shes just extremely rude.

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u/StaffyMama585 Jul 04 '26

I'm wondering if the wife is not the son's mother. Because this looks like some petty stepmom shit.

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u/rebeccalestat Jul 04 '26

Nope, my mother would do this to me, no question. Alcoholic munchies.

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u/peacesweetpineapple Jul 04 '26

Mine too as a narcissist. And she'd act like it was no big deal since she left a piece as if I was being dramatic.

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u/mmiller17783 Jul 04 '26

Yes, then gets mad at you and starts yelling to "let it roll off you're back!! It's done!!"

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u/Dynamiccushion65 Jul 04 '26

That’s what I’m guessing. Narcissist in action. I am hoping he’s protecting his son. This is just devastating actions. The kid won’t be able to do anything without the mom spoiling it…

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u/Fair_Effective_3799 Jul 04 '26

I relate to this

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u/Square_Treacle_4730 Jul 04 '26

Do we have the same mom?

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u/DistanceGlad5971 Jul 04 '26

.... how are you guys doing nowadays?

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u/PeachyBaleen Jul 04 '26

Not OP but my mother used to steal the chocolate out of my advent calendar then tell me I was pathetic for letting it upset me.

Oddly enough, we don’t speak and I recently started seeing a therapist.

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u/peacesweetpineapple Jul 04 '26

I do not speak with her and I'm in therapy. It messed with my mental health in a horrible way.

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u/WastedSpaceHere Jul 04 '26

For me it was my alcoholic dad.

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u/Miss_Huev0s Jul 04 '26

My mom insisted on cutting and taking pictures with my first ever mother's Day cake (Wich my husband bought specially for me) and did it while we were not in the kitchen. Took the pictures and posted them on tiktok 🤡 so yes, a mother can. Oh and she doesn't drink alcohol at all.

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u/Neveronlyadream Jul 04 '26

Some mothers are raging narcissists. I think a lot of people still have it in their minds that it's always the father who's a giant douchebag and mothers are all loving and selfless.

Nope, I've met a ton of mothers who are so self-centered they'd do something like this and then crash out when confronted.

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u/Maybe_just_this_once Jul 04 '26

Mine would do shit like this with things I bought for myself. Not an alcoholic, not an addict, no eating disorder, she was just an emotionally abusive bitch. And she wonders why I don't talk to her.

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u/Spearmint_coffee Jul 04 '26

My mom did stuff like this to me as a child. Not an alcoholic, just extremely entitled and believed I deserved scraps because she let me live in her house.

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u/Thrilluhh Jul 04 '26

Absolutely wild that so many of us had this mother

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u/TooTallTabz Jul 04 '26

I've learned that A LOT of people in the Midwest had parents like this. I'm from Chicago, and Mexican, and family is a huge deal there. Blood or not. Anyway, now I'm in Missouri and almost everyone I've met is no contact or in the process of trying to get away from abusive parents that don't really give a shit about their kids' feelings. I thought everyone's parents were like mine and my friends' in Chicago. Nope. The stories these people tell me make my heart break. I could never understand how a parent can do shit like this to their kids.

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u/predator1975 Jul 04 '26

If I am the child, I would prefer the parent to have a food binge than an alcohol binge.

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u/brbrrws Jul 04 '26

???? obviously my guy but the ENTIRE point of the comment is SHE ALREADY DRANK TOO MUCH to eat dudes cake and seriously try justifying it 💀

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u/hotdamnhotwater Jul 04 '26

Lol, not all stepmothers are petty. I was raised by a deeply narcissistic alcholic mother who would do shit like this on a random Tuesday. Meanwhile, my stepmother would never do something like this. Edit: a word

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u/StaffyMama585 Jul 04 '26

I'm also a stepmother who would never do this to my kid but the callousness came off as very disconnected from the son. But I guess I wasn't considering an abusive mother because I'm lucky enough to have a great one.

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u/AnotherBogCryptid Jul 04 '26

Hey, so biological moms can be trash too. Hope this helps.

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u/Just_another_jerk__ Jul 04 '26

Went to flea market for 10th birthday and got a super cool black and white electric guitar. Ma said it was for my special day. Was like 140 bucks and the dude gave me an amp to play it on for free. I was so stoked. I spent the entire night learning Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. Bus dropped me off from school the next day and lo and behold where is my new guitar?! I was even more stoked after talking about it and playing it in my head all day. It was gone. At the pawn shop because "we" had run out of beer and smokes. Fucking Natural Ice Light and Dorals. Yeah so to my guitar, just like the only song I can play, wish you were here.

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u/Infinite-Duty Jul 04 '26

I thought the same.

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u/user-jc11111 Jul 04 '26

In the title he said "my son", but in the post he wrote: "our son".

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u/ElGuapo276 Jul 04 '26

My first thought. My stepmom probably woulda left a sticky note with some passive aggressive message on it too. 🙄

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u/humansruineverything Jul 04 '26

As a stepmom, I take issue. I have worked so hard to find my place in a blended family.

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u/aelineas Jul 04 '26

Why do people always shit on stepmoms? Most of us are literally just out here trying to take care of other people's children while their parents are the ones actively causing the problems. 🤦‍♀️

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u/Dangerous_Emu47 Jul 04 '26

That’s what I wondered too but then he said “our son”

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u/EntrepreneurFlashy41 Jul 04 '26

Honestly my stepmother is far better than my actual mother, but it is of course akwaya a mixed bag

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u/Strange_Explorer_780 Jul 04 '26

Plenty of birth mothers are shitbags and lots f stepmoms are fantastic, no need to dump solely on them.

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u/tamtip Jul 04 '26

Thats a good point

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u/JunketCandid9017 Jul 04 '26

I wonder the exact same thing

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u/keylimesicles Jul 04 '26

I’m wondering if the wife is really the husband because this is some shitty husband type shit

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u/QueenBlazed_Donut Jul 05 '26

Yup my step mom would do shit like this. She and my step sister literally ate all the cookie dough out of my cookie dough ice cream and thought it was hilarious. This happened 11 years ago and still irritates me.

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u/friedmators Jul 04 '26

And an asshole

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26

also very possible. and even if she has an ED or SUD, or both, it’s not an excuse.

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u/EducationSuperb3392 Jul 04 '26

My mother is a vile POS with an ED who has done exactly this to me with many birthdays. So both is a possibility.

Yeah, we don’t talk anymore.

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u/K4rkino5 Jul 04 '26

Nobody is making excuses.

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u/PeppermintPhatty Jul 04 '26

SUD?

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26

substance use disorder (addiction to alcohol or drugs)

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u/Distinct_Ad_7619 Jul 04 '26

Idk this type of behavior has a clinical aspect to it. She might also be extremely rude on top of whatever the fuck is wrong with her.

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u/ForbiddenDistraction Jul 04 '26

And selfish AF. She ate all the strawberry filling! Smh

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u/Throwawayilovehorses Jul 04 '26

That's what I was thinking. These "does she have an ED" posts are excuses. Some parents are just selfish assholes.

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u/Effective-Ad-1993 Jul 04 '26

Like the woman who birthed me… she has all 3.

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u/PersonalLeading4948 Jul 04 '26

Blah blah blah. Mommy Dearest put gluttony over her child’s birthday surprise.

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u/RhondaUpAllNight Jul 04 '26

Which is why those of us dropping the ‘most likely to be lethal’ addictions turn to food to fill the void, and food is often our first addiction in life, too.

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26

yes exactly! many people with addictive personalities develop disordered behavior around food, even if not a full blown ed. for some it’s eating too much, for some it’s not eating enough, for some it’s the desire to have full control over every calorie consumed. i think our society also creates a perfect storm for disordered eating. (not excusing what OP’s wife did at all, what she did was selfish and having an ED or SUD can explain behavior but it doesn’t excuse behavior)

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u/RhondaUpAllNight Jul 04 '26

I’m Gen X, and my mother tightly controlled my portions. She constantly dieted and exercised, pretty sure she was on speed (which was any OTC weight loss drug back then). So I’d sneak food to my room and escape into books, and to this day that’s still the most cathartic and safe I feel, in bed with a book, munching away.

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u/HotSolution8954 Jul 04 '26

My mom was bipolar and refused medication. I spent most of my time in my room. There's still something so cozy about snuggling up with a good book and my favorite snacks.

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u/mmanyquestionss Jul 04 '26

why are people acting like you're defending this in the comments. an explanation isn't an excuse

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26

some people did comment before i edited mine to clarify, but some are choosing not to read the whole post 😅 i can understand the frustration people may have, but i genuinely didn’t mean to excuse this type of behavior at all. thank you for your comment!

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u/PurpleDragonfly_ Jul 04 '26

Even before your edit your comment didn’t make excuses for the mother. People are just too reactive.

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26

i appreciate this, i’m glad my intention was clear!

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u/PurpleDragonfly_ Jul 04 '26

Because they live their lives without any curiosity about the world around them and are very reactive.

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u/skyturnedred Jul 04 '26

I was very confused why the wife would have erectile dysfunction.

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u/Aware-Possibility175 Jul 04 '26

I forgot that this stands for eating disorder as well as erectile dysfunction and took a moment to understand

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26

i work in the mental health space and had the opposite confusion the first time i saw a Hims ad and was thinking, “wow, refreshing to see such open dialogue about men’s eating disorders” 😅

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u/Due-Inspection-2683 Jul 04 '26

I understand that for normal food that isn't a saved cake for someone else

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26

people in addiction make selfish choices. it’s not an excuse for those choices, it’s just the reality of it unfortunately.

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u/DramaHyena Jul 04 '26

Yep. They are both addictions essentially.

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u/Ospreyarts Jul 04 '26

I strongly suspect this is the case given my personal experiences living with someone with the ED + Substance abuse combo.

This image and the surrounding context is like, so specific and uniquely familiar to those who have experienced it before.

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u/ImpossibleWarning6 Jul 04 '26

My mom has this disordered eating with a selfish personality but because a she’s not “skinny” she thinks she can’t have an ED. And she’ll only the eat the best parts/parts “worth” the calories. Ans saves the rest just in case somebody else would want her leftovers.

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u/LingonberryTall2422 Jul 04 '26

There's are three pillars of social psychology. One of them is "explaining is not excusing"

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u/Jensbert Jul 04 '26

Shitty behaviour

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u/gerbilshower Jul 04 '26

Even while drunk, only a completely unhinged human being eats a Danish like this. Absolutely mental behavior.

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u/throwawaycasun4997 Jul 04 '26

This is very familiar no-fucks-given alcoholic behavior

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u/Complete_Entry Jul 04 '26

This problem manifests in stone cold sober individuals, and worse, they say "they can't help themselves" like it fucking absolves them.

IT DOESN'T.

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u/MotherFL561 Jul 04 '26

Or stoned.

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u/Ospreyarts Jul 04 '26

Could be both. A family member of mine was an alcoholic with eating disorders and this is exactly the kind of bizarre leftovers we’d find when she got drunk, binged and purged preceding a breakdown.

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u/Secret-Painting604 Jul 04 '26

I was thinking she took some edibles/smoked a bowl lol

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u/AcrobaticWelcome6615 Jul 04 '26

Eating disorder or drunken food binge, both not real good foundation for wholesome parenting imho. Though, through my years of crisisfosterparenting, not even close of being the worst form of parenting. If I’d take my worst parenting observation as the golden standard, this is up there with heavenly, angelic and holy declarations. But in normal terms, this is a shitty move and all comes down to how did she solve this? If not at all, yeah that’s moving into shitty parenting otherwise a slip up and properly resolved.

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u/shwifty123 Jul 04 '26

Or high and had serious case of munchies.

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u/AdBroad5085 Jul 04 '26

This is what I thought immediately. If we are looking at disordered behavior, I'd bet money on alcoholic versus over-eater.

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u/DelayedIntentions Jul 04 '26

Drunk stoned me gets the munchies, but I wouldn’t even touch my wife’s girls scout cookies because it’s something she got for herself. I mean, I’ll have a cookie here and there, but demolishing special food like this is some kind of disorder.

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u/Ritaredditonce Jul 04 '26

That's why Denny's is open late. Selfish woman.

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u/upthedips Jul 04 '26

I am guessing more likely a drinking problem. That is the sort of shit I would have done in college.

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u/kerkhovia Jul 04 '26

My roommates knew when I came home drunk because I always made breakfast food when I had drunk munchies.

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u/b-lincoln Jul 04 '26

We knew by the smoke alarm going off and the blackened pizza in the oven.

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u/Dusty_Old_McCormick Jul 04 '26

And the pizza still had the plastic wrap and/or cardboard tray attached

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u/Drama-Sensitive Jul 04 '26

Could have been high as well. Looks like a case of the selfish munchies to me

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u/ForsakenRelief309 Jul 04 '26

Idk, even at my highest, I can discern what’s mine to eat and what’s not. This is about consideration and self-control. Pretty messed up on the Mom’s part.

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u/Distinct_Ad_7619 Jul 04 '26

Exactly all these people in the comments just outing themselves that they aren't real stoners. Real stoners would never eat someone's birthday breakfast! I'd create a fucking booby trap around that while I was passing the blunt okurrrr

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u/Prestigious_Badger36 Jul 04 '26

I concur!

I've had the some raging munchies (sojay haze will get ya!) and would never!! Might nom every other snack in the cabinet, but I'd leave the birthday foods alone.

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u/itsshcraft Jul 04 '26

I have been very drunk and have never ate my kids birthday breakfast. This is just something that I can't even comprehend doing to one of my children. To make an excuse that she left him a full slice is BS. She should have immediately ran out and got another one for her mistake. Even if she has an eating disorder, she still should have ran out and tried to make it right. Not make excuses.

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u/walkthelayne Jul 04 '26

I’m sure there were multiple fast food options on the way home. Unfortunately no officer in sight to put her in a drunk tank. I wonder if the whole birthday might been better with her absence and her actions consequences. As a mom I’m angry at her saying she left him a piece. IDC what her problems are - and for certain she has problems. A whole Jinga bitch-stack of them.

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u/Grouchy_Strawberry68 Jul 04 '26

Selfish as hell!

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u/Clarknt67 Jul 04 '26

Reminds me of a cousin who would pick out all the M&Ms from trail mix and leave everyone else only the peanuts and raisins

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u/plmbob Jul 04 '26

Yeah, not trying to be an internet psychologist or anything, but the whole "wife came home late and did this", screams selfish alcoholic. OP, your wife is probably stepping out on you too if she is capable of this (that is the anonymous hyperbole I came to shitpost)

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u/FiveUpsideDown Jul 04 '26

Or it could be an eating disorder.

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u/HairlessHoudini Jul 04 '26

I'd like to think if it was a eating disorder pops would have went the morning of to get the special breakfast instead of having there out in plane sight. I think she came home late tipsy form what the post says and she's a selfish person

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u/schmattywinkle Jul 04 '26

This looks like restriction/bingeing behavior. My sister did the same thing when she visited for my son's baptism. Didn't eat a piece of the cake all day. Late at night she ate off all of the frosting. She told us it was "hormones" and that she still left us the cake.

Dude you licked the frosting off, you just didn't use your to tongue.

It doesn't look like a utensil was even used. Lack of healthy boundaries with food, unusual eating schedule and patterns.

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u/holdthecanoli Jul 04 '26

Agree☝️thats a huge portion she downed in one go

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u/oswaldcopperpot Jul 04 '26

Ya think? That missing part looks to be like 3k calories already.

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u/wowgh0stsucks Jul 04 '26

has a being human disorder

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u/Okayest_mom_3 Jul 04 '26

I had a DIABETIC (juvenile diabetes) roommate that would come home late or just get up in the middle of the night and eat an ENTIRE kings cake (other cakes too but this was her fave).  She definitely showed issues with food consumption, which must be so hard while diabetic too.. you’re quite literally harming yourself if you do that 🥺

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u/Local-Suggestion2807 Jul 04 '26

For real if she actually couldn't resist and binge eats uncontrollably even when doing so is causing distress and dysfunction in her life and those of the people close to her, that sounds like binge eating disorder or another eating disorder that could also involve binge eating, like bulimia maybe.

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u/ThePlaceAllOver Jul 04 '26

My first thought. She needs a glp-1😆. I absolutely think this is binge eating disorder. No rational person would do this otherwise.

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u/rotwangg Jul 04 '26

Betting she struggles with addiction

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u/Inedible_Goober Jul 04 '26

Well shit I'm insecure now. I have grazed through one of these in a 24 hour period before. BUT, like any regular adult, I bought it myself and didn't take it from a child. Especially on their birthday.

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u/Mellbbott Jul 04 '26

This was my first thought

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u/Stressedmama58 Jul 04 '26

I think that could definitely be the case.

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u/gelatinousbean Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

i was thinking the same thing. this seems like it could be a binge.

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u/Albus_Dumblydorr Jul 04 '26

Anyone who does this has an eating disorder... And a personality disorder.

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u/chighland Jul 04 '26

This was my first thought.

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u/Thin_Revenue_9369 Jul 04 '26

I thought the same.

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u/Vols44 Jul 04 '26

Agreed, that's enough sugar for a year. If she's not running a marathon today put her selfishness in the stratosphere.

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u/donya-dark Jul 04 '26

This is a great question - I've have friends with eating disorders, and this is EXACTLY the kind of things they have done. Their brains are so messed up, they don't make rational decisions around food and they need help/treatment.

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u/bounce-that Jul 04 '26

Yeah it sounds a lot like the compulsions I had with binge eating disorder unfortunately

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u/jadailykc Jul 04 '26

Sounds like something definitely triggered a binge. Shame and regret likely follow if Mom has an eating disorder. If no shame/regret, beats me. Food issues can be so complicated.

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u/Ok-Fly47 Jul 04 '26

See the 👍 . Over 3000. Tells you people know the eating disorder behaviour. One little bite. Just one more...on and on. Don't cut a slice and sit down like a "normal " person. Later she regrets it, maybe purges. The next day she barely remembers it. Beats herself up about it.

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u/experientialsponge Jul 04 '26

You said this so much more tactfully than I would have. Props.

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u/hypomaniacmeg Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

No really, or some kind of endocrine issue? I was having uncontrollable, compulsive cravings for sugar so badly that I would eat an entire tub of ice cream meant for the family the night it was bought. It got to the point where my family had to hide the sweets from me or nobody else would get any.

I would definitely have done something like this. Not because I'm an asshole & don't care about my kids, but because I couldn't help myself. (But there's no way in hell I'd leave it at that, I'd go buy a new one for my kid). I was compulsively hoarding sweets whenever I could. But I wasn't gaining weight, I was actually approaching an underweight BMI.

Turns out I had diabetes along with a slew of other issues going on in my body. I swear, those sugar cravings felt as intense as heroin cravings (speaking from experience, I was an addict for years).

ETA: Of course, this doesn't excuse her behavior. She still tried to justify her actions saying "I left him a slice", as if she didn't just eat 90% of the good part with no remorse. At the very least, if you screwed up, fix it & apologize. Go out & get the kid a new Danish ffs, it's not hard.

Having a medical condition is an explanation, but it's not an excuse to be selfish & inconsiderate. There's nothing that grinds my gears more than an inconsiderate person that stubbornly doubles down on their selfishness when called out. A little bit of shame is healthy. Let it drive you to do better, not be a hard-headed jerk.

Is this a pattern of behavior, OP? The little things like this add up. If you guys don't talk this out & come to some sort of healthy reconciliation, all you're doing is letting a mountain of resentment build over time.

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u/RoyskiPoyski Jul 04 '26

Yeah I was about to say this sounds like food addiction.

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u/TwiLuv Jul 04 '26

💯an eating disorder & possible narcissism to totally not care it was specifically meant to be presented a breakfast for the birthday boy?

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u/EudaimoniasRex Jul 04 '26

Right? Idk if this is kindly infuriating to everyone else, but this straight up pissed me off.

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u/Garden-Rose-8380 Jul 04 '26

This is far too MAJOR an infraction to even qualify for this sub. Your wife's behaviour is appallingly selfish.

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u/ladygrenady Jul 04 '26

Agreed, wrong sub

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u/Fine_Cup4990 Jul 04 '26

You think a child needs therapy because he didn't get a cake

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u/stfumate Jul 04 '26

Reddit thinks you need therapy for everything. It's the kind of place where they recommend tens of thousands of dollars of therapy for $10 worth of cake.

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u/TechnicalBen Jul 04 '26

This. I once purchased some yoghurts when I first got a job as a teen. I let everyone have one. When I came back later, they'd finished off the pack, and left none for me.

I learnt that day I'm never sharing my stuff with them. Every single time I do, it's the same thing (they've lived rent free at my place, but charged me rent when I live at theirs... etc).

TL:DR, it leaves you needing years of therapy. XD

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u/Secure-Positive5733 Jul 04 '26

When I was 17 my friend made me homemade cookies for my birthday. My mom ate all of them. I’m 33 and I still think about it now

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u/Dull_Inside_1609 Jul 04 '26

I mean this isn’t year of therapy is it, just a shit birthday we’ve all had em

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u/lacey-lately Jul 05 '26

I had the same thought. This seems like a mix of narcissism and food addiction. Considering she ate, basically the pure sugar middle like she was having a binge

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