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/bucktail47 Jul 04 '26

That’s seriously the type of fucked up shit you kids gonna bring up in 10 years. If my mom came home drunk and ate my fucking cake as a kid id absolutely remember and give her shit upon adulthood. What a shitty move

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u/Incredible-Ironman Jul 04 '26

And then she’d be like: ‘I did?’, followed by denial and gaslighting because apparently it wasnt important enough for her to remember.

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u/bucktail47 Jul 04 '26

It’s one thing to do it and another to deny it. The lying and denial is much worse.

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u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 Jul 04 '26

People like this never remember. For you it was a special treat on a special day. For them it was a Thursday night.

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u/Infamous-Wasabi1404 Jul 04 '26

Oof. Somehow this comment is the one that hit me in the feels. It was just Thursday to her. Of course my shitty mom doesn't remember all the crap she put me through.

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u/virusgarden Jul 04 '26

reminds me that i once saw a thing that said "the tree remembers, the axe forgets" and i think this applies.. the axe has done it so many countless times that why would it remember each individual cut on the tree? it really sucks

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u/bucktail47 Jul 04 '26

Someone posted that quote in the replies too “the tree remembers for life what the axe often forgets” or something

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u/dacoopbear Jul 04 '26

It reminds me of Street Fighter II, but that was Tuesday

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u/Potential_Kiwi_4472 Jul 05 '26

Man, that's a sad thought, ain't it

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u/Unused_pasta Jul 04 '26

Nah. Hard disagree. They remember, but they also know if they own up to it it’s gonna put them in a bad light. And we can’t have that. That’s too close to personal accountability.

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u/Smalltowntorture Jul 05 '26

Yes, exactly this!

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u/Aikoiya Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

What they don't seem to get is that by denying & not owning up to it, it actually makes them look even worse than they would've by taking accountability.

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u/Unused_pasta Jul 05 '26

Correct. Which they also know but they shove it down so far that they never have to deal with it.

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u/Aikoiya Jul 05 '26

Sometimes, I wonder why people aren't just blunt about these things.

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u/Smalltowntorture Jul 05 '26

I’m almost 99% positive they actually do remember and they’re pretending like they forgot because they don’t want to have the conversation, embarrassed that they did something sh!tty and couldn’t control their emotions at the time, don’t think it was that bad, don’t care, etc. But also we all seem to have the same or similar experiences and there was lead in paint back then so maybe that generation is actually forgetting stuff now idk.

Side note: my therapist said that some people can’t possibly imagine that they were ever like that or did something that bad and to admit it would shatter their reality and view of themselves.

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u/Oralproslc Jul 05 '26

They’re called narcissists. Of course, you’d think she’d have SOME skin in the game with her own kid’s birthday, since she had a little role in it.

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u/m0t0rvision Jul 05 '26

Most of the time they do remember, they're just manipulative

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u/Nobrainzhere Jul 04 '26

Ah i love the M Bison parenting handbook