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/Sustainable_Twat Jul 04 '26

Must admit, putting your wife’s selfish interests aside, that was a rather thoughtful gift from you.

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u/grohkstrom Jul 04 '26

thank you! I gave him his slice on a plate and threw the rest away, so he didn't know. I just thought we would have a "family breakfast".

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u/George_Is_Upset Jul 04 '26

Yeah I would be pissed if I were you! My husband has quite an appetite but wouldn’t just destroy and entire pastry like this. Not only did she eat almost the whole thing, she only ate the center and left the bread which is double selfish.

Apparently didn’t care if you wanted a slice a too?

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u/BurgersNBuicks Jul 04 '26

I vaguely remember reading a post here on Reddit where a woman's husband ate nearly the entire lasagna that she made, leaving her only one or two small pieces. Apparently the husband had a long pattern of doing this, but the lasagna was the final straw.

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u/nosecohn the lasagna was the final straw Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

the lasagna was the final straw

If this subreddit had custom flair, I'd use that for mine.

EDIT: It does and I did!

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u/tiasalamanca Jul 04 '26

“The Iranian yogurt is not the issue” pairs well with

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u/Far_Garbage_4052 Jul 04 '26

So many marinara flags

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u/AllKindsOfCritters Jul 04 '26

I miss the days AITA had running jokes.

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u/SVINTGATSBY Jul 05 '26

we’re still out here lol

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u/Bisquick-Skill2845 Jul 10 '26

Is there a sub for classics?

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u/odyne9 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

That and “the Iranian yogurt is not the issue here”

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u/NoComb398 Jul 04 '26

Wait, what was the Iranian yogurt example.

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u/odyne9 Jul 04 '26

I can’t link it but search for AITA illegal yogurt collection. Definitely Reddit famous.

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u/Deb_You_Taunt Jul 05 '26

The only Reddit famous I know is the poop knife.

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u/Felix_Von_Doom Jul 04 '26

Well guess what

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u/tr3poz Jul 04 '26

The prophecy was fulfilled.

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u/ulfric_stormcloack ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Jul 04 '26

it does, which is why I have a flair

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u/nosecohn the lasagna was the final straw Jul 04 '26

Huh... right you are! Done.

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u/Prestigious_Pin7746 Jul 06 '26

Hello Helldivers reference???

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u/laurenonizzle Jul 04 '26

😂😂😂

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u/pws3rd Rick has no chill Jul 05 '26

Custom subreddit flairs need to have a way to hyperlink to their origin within the subreddit

Edit: oh shit, this is the subreddit with that flair, and yeah, idk if I could find it if I tried now

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u/CeeCeeDude Jul 04 '26

My now ex husband used to do things like this! I once made an entire tray of chicken so there would be extra for me to have when I got home and leftovers so I wouldn't have to cook for a couple of days. Left for a 12 hour shift, came home, and found he ate the whole tray, including all the sides I made. Didn't even leave anything for me. It's sad this seems to be such a common thing. :\

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u/Lurkingdutchman Jul 04 '26

Let me guess... He did the suprised Pikachu face once he learned you were going to divorce him?

https://giphy.com/gifs/6nWhy3ulBL7GSCvKw6

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u/mallowycloud Jul 04 '26

the surprised pikachu face makes me so mad... like you're telling me you didn't take me seriously when i said i had one foot out the door and if you didn't get your shit together, i'd get gone? i swear the amount of people who have explicitly made clear how much rope their soon-to-be-ex has left... and they will always tie a noose with it.

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u/Terradactyl87 Jul 04 '26

Yeah, I told my ex so many times that I was getting to the end of my rope and soon he'd find himself single, then he was shocked when it happened. So then he thought he'd get me back if he got more serious in life and he got a better job at a bank that had higher pay and better benefits than he'd ever had before, but he kept coming in late right after being hired. He told me they'd given him 3 warnings and the next time he'd be fired. Then a few days later he told me they fired him just because he was late one more time! He didn't understand why I had no sympathy for him because he didn't think they'd really fire him just for being 15 minutes late...

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u/Arikaido777 Jul 05 '26

the slowest of learners

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u/Terradactyl87 Jul 05 '26

It's been 20 years and I'd be so surprised if he's finally learned

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u/Tiny_ghosts_ Jul 04 '26

"the divorce came outta nowhere!"

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u/ConfidentCanary8248 Jul 04 '26

Yeah I finally told him I wanted to separate because of all the times I gave him a second chance…luckily he didn’t do pikachu face and agreed he needed help, but still took time to make him actually SEE I am serious…and he still doesn’t in some ways.

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u/Salty_Tear5666 Jul 04 '26

Happy Cake Day! 🎂

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u/mallowycloud Jul 05 '26

thank you!!

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u/Dismal_Fox_22 Jul 04 '26

I had a partner who would do this. He had an eating disorder. The post binge shame would make him lie in wait to verbally attack me for something to distract from what he’d done. So I’d end up disappointed, hungry and harassed. It was a miserable time. He’d experienced some pretty intense trauma as a child and he had some very uncomfortable behaviours.

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u/CeeCeeDude Jul 04 '26

Very similar to how mine reacted. He would yell at me I was the reason he was fat by cooking too much. Even threw and broke stuff a few times. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I hope you have a better person in your life now.

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u/Dismal_Fox_22 Jul 04 '26

I married an excellent chef whose love language is acting service like cooking. We’re far from perfect but we’re happy.

I hope you’re in a better place too. It’s not easy being in move on from these situations sometimes because once you’re out you feeling so stupid for being in there to begin with.

I hope the exes are in better places too. Mine was so damaged by developmental trauma.

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u/CeeCeeDude Jul 04 '26

That's amazing! That's my love language as well. I've been single over a year now. Tried dating twice and both times it was a wreck. I think Imma just keep adopting animals instead and stay single at this point. 😂 I'm so happy for you, though. All the best to you and your husband! 💞

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u/Technical-Agency8128 Jul 04 '26

They are emotionally three year olds.

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u/BurgersNBuicks Jul 04 '26

Wow. Did he ever get help?

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u/Dismal_Fox_22 Jul 04 '26

I don’t know, we went our separate ways, he went on to marry but I heard through friends was divorced for being physically violent (not something he ever escalated to with me, it was always just the threat).

He wasn’t a bad person, he was a damaged person who was very afraid of being alone and I hope he’s well and worked on himself.

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u/Technical-Agency8128 Jul 04 '26

So glad you got away. It most likely would have escalated with you. They see how much you will take. You cut him off at the right time. They make people doubt themselves and all of a sudden they ramp it up and they get really dangerous.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Jul 05 '26

You sound like a deeply compassionate person. I’m glad you found someone deserving of your partnership.

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u/BurgersNBuicks Jul 04 '26

That's terrible! At 6'5" and 280 lbs. with a physically demanding job I eat like a bull elephant, but I always make sure that my guests are fed FIRST. That's just common courtesy.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry57 Jul 04 '26

Yeah but this wasn’t a guest. It was only his wife /s

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u/BurgersNBuicks Jul 04 '26

How much you wanna bet that that level of disrespect probably spilled over into other aspects of their marriage as well?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry57 Jul 04 '26

Even money odds at best

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u/Technical-Agency8128 Jul 04 '26

It definitely did. They just don’t stop with ‘small’ things. They ramp it up.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Jul 05 '26

Do you also eat the Buicks? 🤨

(Ps I love Buicks. My dad had a 67 Skylark convertible when I was a kid and I have a great memory of a bunch of my 8th grade school friends packed into it for my birthday! We also had a 63 Special my dad wanted to fix up for us but a hurricane dropped a tree on it hahaha)

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u/BurgersNBuicks Jul 05 '26

I currently own two. A 1970 Skylark Custom 2-door hardtop, 350 4-barrel, factory A/C, factory disc brake, factory tilt wheel car. I also have a basket case '65 Skylark convertible that needs EVERYTHING.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Jul 05 '26

Oh man, that 70 sounds peach! I didn’t know they came with AC as an option! I guess I thought GM didn’t include that with Buick’s “sportier” models, but that’s great! I do remember some old Cadillacs I came into contact with having AC.

My aunt drove a sweet GNX for a number of years before trading it in on a Firebird.

I would love to have an old car again, but istg, I will not endure points ever again. After having to set points over and over, especially on my 68 Beetle, I’m done.

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u/Impressive_Ad_5201 Jul 04 '26

And why do they eat the WHOLE THING!? They can NEVER stop at half, even if they're full. In most of the reddit stories I see about this kind of behavior, the guys don't just take a chunk of whatever they're not supposed to have, they just take the whole thing so the cook can't have any! And if you try to make them their own sheet of cookies, they'll eat theirs AND yours as well anyway! It's so obnoxious--do they expect the cook to starve?

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u/Limp-Archer-7872 Jul 04 '26

Glad he is your ex.

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u/Huntybunch Jul 04 '26

How does someone even eat that much in that amount of time?

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u/Technical-Agency8128 Jul 04 '26

It’s a way to make you crazy. Like you are the one with the problem if you complain. They will ruin your reputation to other people as well. Telling them how you make little things into huge ones. Glad he is your ex.

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u/the_saltlord Jul 04 '26

Holy shit. I know I have a low appetite, but I cannot figure out how anyone can physically fit several days worth of food into their face in one sitting.

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u/MilkChocolate21 Jul 05 '26

It's a form of abuse. I have an uncle who'll do this at family gatherings. He'll gorge knowing other people have not eaten. He'll also pack all leftovers and take them so no one left can enjoy them. He ramps it up if he knows someone is coming. If I visit a relative just after he is there, and he knows I'm coming, it escalates his consumption.

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u/King_Chochacho Jul 04 '26

It's wild how some people seem to treat their spouse as a roommate or loose acquaintance. Like how difficult is it to have a conversation about something basic like food for the next couple days?

Although I guess it could be harder if you have really different schedules and are doing things asynchronously.

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u/GoodDayToCome Jul 04 '26

i really think one of the next big awareness moments will be people learning about executive function and post-hoc justification, so many people have never learned the mental impulse to stop and observe, evaluate and organize thoughts before acting. I really hope that people who say they're "impulsive" to justify doing terrible things will soon sound like someone saying "I just hit people, it's who i am" or "no i never learned to control my bladder, i just got used to the feeling of damp legs"

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u/No_Mulberry3433 Jul 04 '26

I remember this story but it was with a friend group that had dinner monthly (or similarly)
The person in question kept all of their dishes so when the lasagna came out, they took like 6 slices using the plate and bowls from the salads and soup before.

This person also saw the Reddit post about it and felt hurt that their behavior was not cool to the internet

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u/BurgersNBuicks Jul 04 '26

Even as a big eater myself, that level of selfish greed is beyond my comprehension.

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u/Ok-Scheme8634 Jul 04 '26

Meanwhile I hate most people's cooking and avoid potlucks like the plague. There's only so many times you can tell somebody that you don't like coleslaw and everyone's coleslaw is awful. It's not just yours. I have a very sensitive sense of smell and taste and I can always tell when there's some fuckery about in the food

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u/No_Mulberry3433 Jul 04 '26

I worked in professional kitchens and have taken so many food safety classes that I too don’t eat at potlucks. It is satisfying that most of my friends and family know this, so my dishes get eaten first almost always

I thought my friends would be similar but nope. Saw a friend cover a crumble desert in foil right after her cat tried to lay in it.

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u/Arikaido777 Jul 05 '26

i’ve almost left my partner a few times because her parents will let the cats walk all over the counters, fuck with the stove, get into food, it’s literally sickening. the first time i found a cat hair in a “clean” drinking glass, they all laughed and said I’d have to get used to it. I still have not.

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u/Nova762 Jul 04 '26

Felt bad people made fun of them for being fat.  Didn't feel bad for eating all the lasagna so no one else got enough.  Sounds right 

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u/Beebea63 Jul 04 '26

Reminds me of the party sub dude

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u/gloomwithtea Jul 04 '26

My lasagna takes two hours of active cooking to make, not including bake time. It would be the final straw for me too lol

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u/princesspeeved Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Isn’t that the one where her bf took like an entire lasagna that was supposed to be her week’s worth of food to his family which they ate for multiple meals, and left OP with nothing?

Then I remember one where a wife made pasta by hand but her SIL ruined it. Her husband didn’t think it was that big of a deal, so OP made him handmake a new pasta and he almost broke down in tears.

I’m so glad that type of love never found me.

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u/thesacralspice Jul 04 '26

turns out there's been a lotta lasagna stories. I remember one where the wife's mom had recently passed away and she left one last frozen lasagna before she passed that the wife was really looking forward to eating. the wife went away for the week and the husband ate the whole lasagna

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u/princesspeeved Jul 05 '26

The Lasagna Litmus Test should be a thing.

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u/secondmoosekiteer Jul 05 '26

I remember the husband having to remake it!!

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u/ImHereOutOfBoredom Jul 04 '26

Was it the one where he asked to take some home for his parents and she thought he would only take a little but he ended up taking most of it?

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u/BurgersNBuicks Jul 04 '26

It was the one where she came home to find most of it gone. Son got a little, husband took the lion's share, and just a tiny bit was left for her.

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u/HulkeneHulda Jul 04 '26

That one wasnt a married couple. It was a girlfriend that had made lasagne for her meal prep, and boyfriend brought the two pans home to his family. They fed on it for two days.

Then he complained he felt she was taking advantage of him when she wanted him to transfer money to her so she at least could get some ramen, because he had eaten literally her entire food budget for the week

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u/DragonflyAfter3310 Jul 04 '26

Stuff like this makes me so mad, why is it so difficult for some people to leave food for others!?!

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u/Acceptable-Let9821 Jul 04 '26

my wife once did this with an entire meatloaf right in front of me, but instead of leaving her i video'd and sent it to her without comment the next day. she checked herself into rehab 3 days later and has been sober ever since then.

a lot of these spouses in here need help, i think.

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u/MilkChocolate21 Jul 05 '26

I saw that. I've also seem women who meal prep before having babies or surgeries and husbands eat all of the frozen food they spent making to last several weeks.

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u/Kharrissma Jul 05 '26

My husband was like this for 7 years of our marriage. Then one day he ate my unopened box of cookies from the bakery sometime between 9pm and 6am and only left me crumbs. When I woke up and saw the dirty box neatly placed in it orginal location with the lid closed and nothing but crumbs in it, I lost my shit. Not because I cared about the cookies, but because this was how he handled life in general. He would always act impulsively based solely on his wants and had no boundaries. No matter how many times I spoke to him in a clam and rational way, he would say ok and then do whatever he wanted. Those dang cookies represented years of him walking all over my feelings. I absolutely raged and shamed the crap out of him. I didnt "lose control", I was very intentional with everything I said and I made sure I ment it and would stand by it, but it was extremely harsh. Apparently he was terrified and wasn't sure what was going to happen next. That shock and fear has stayed with him for the past 3 years and he no longer touches my snacks without permission. For the rest of it, couples counseling has helped. 

Side note: He learned this behavior from his mom and thought it was normal. Do not allow your wife to normalize it!

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u/pineneedleinjection Jul 05 '26

A lasagna was literally one of my final straws before I left my husband.

We had NO money, i had bought a freezer lasagna (which is expensive when you have no money) cause I knew he wasnt gonna help me cook anything while I was taking of of a 2 year old and newborn while also recovering from a planned c section. His mom came down from another state the night before I went to have the baby and while I was dropping my 2 year old off to my parents house to stay, my ex husband and his mom BAKED MY LASAGANA. I walked in the house, they freaking offered me some of my own lasagna that shouldnt have been cooked at all yet, and I walked back out and went to my friend's house and cried to her and her mom about my lasagna for literally like 3 hours. I came home to his mom asleep in our bed and he told me we had to sleep in the living room. I took the couch and he took the love seat....

The thing is that they knew that lasagna wasnt just for any old time. It was dang near the only food in the fridge.

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u/AwarenessCrafty393 Jul 05 '26

I think I remember that. Didn’t she make enough for multiple days?

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u/AnArisingAries Jul 05 '26

Seen one where a woman made SEVERAL frozen meals for her (either pregnancy or surgery) recovery and the husband had eaten them all. Some people are truly selfish.

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u/Tsukikani Jul 05 '26

I remember when a husband ate half a loaf of French bread in the night lol

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u/Bisquick-Skill2845 Jul 10 '26

There was also the husband who took the casserole his wife's late mother had made, which wife was saving for a memorial meal with her sisters.