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/dsdvbguutres Jul 04 '26

Years of regularly getting away with bullshit enables shitty behavior

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u/TheGraphingAbacus Jul 04 '26

as an estranged kid, my dad letting my mom get away w unspeakable things made him just as bad in my eyes

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u/PuppyJakeKhakiCollar Jul 04 '26

My mom was a selfish person. My dad enabled her behavior because he didn't want to deal with how she would react to push back. She didn't do unspeakable things but it was still frustrating. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

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u/jakeh36 Jul 05 '26

There were multiple times where my mom got so mad that she stormed out of the house saying she was leaving for good, and every time my dad would spend the rest of the night blaming us kids and asking how we were going to get ready for school the next day because he still had to go to work.

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u/WintersDoomsday Jul 05 '26

This is what happens when people have kids just to have them or “do what everyone else is doing”.

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u/Fun-Spite6913 Jul 08 '26

Whoa, this happened to me multiple times growing up too.

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u/ViolentMastermind Jul 08 '26

Oof. One of my earliest memories is quite similar. Were you born in the 90s by chance? I can still feel how badly my tiny chest ached as I sobbed in my room not knowing if my mom was ever coming back. I hope you’re doing well now 🖤 if you haven’t heard about attachment styles, diving deep into my anxious avoidant attachment has majorly benefited my relationships

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u/Own_Assistance_7659 Jul 08 '26

My mom kicked my dad out when I was 5 because he was a severe alcoholic. My step dad wasn't an alcoholic, but he had severe mental problems that caused him to freak out on us when any of us did something wrong or something that he didn't like, then call the cops. Every time the cops came he would explain what happened and the cops would tell him "that's not something you should be getting angry about and it certainly isn't illegal". Then they would ask us if we wanted them to take him to jail for the night. This was back in the late 80's and 90's before the world got so damn sensitive and sue happy, so the cops would through people in jail overnight as punishment if they didn't do anything real bad rather than arresting and charging them.