Ever found yourself in a sticky situation where you’re blamed for someone else’s forgetfulness? ♀️ Meet our heroine, a wife caught in the crossfire of her husband’s forgetfulness and his family’s expectations. When her husband forgets to wish his family on their birthdays, she’s the one who’s held responsible. But she’s not having any of it! Let’s dive into this drama-filled tale of forgotten birthdays, family feuds, and the great calendar debate.
The Forgotten Birthday
The Unpleasant Surprise
The Blame Game Begins
A History of Forgetfulness
The ‘Job’ Description
The Husband’s Take ️
The Video Game Analogy
The Calendar Solution
The Cycle Continues
The Final Straw
The Clarification
The Shared Calendar Idea ️
A Calendar Conundrum: Whose Job Is It Anyway?
Caught in a whirlwind of forgotten birthdays and family expectations, our heroine finds herself in a peculiar predicament. Her husband’s forgetfulness is causing a stir in the family, and she’s the one bearing the brunt. Despite her efforts to solve the issue with a shared calendar, the blame game continues. The question remains: is it her job to keep track of her husband’s family’s birthdays? Or should her husband take responsibility for his own forgetfulness? Let’s see what the internet has to say about this intriguing dilemma.
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NTA. Send him back to his mother
NTA. Husband should take responsibility for remembering family birthdays.
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NTA. Establishing a dynamic where he forgets birthdays is not ideal.
NTA: Women shouldn’t have to do emotional labor for husbands
NTA: Emotional labor expectations on women need to stop.
NTA: Husband’s responsibility to remember family birthdays, not wife’s.
NTA. Husband forgets MIL’s birthday. Is he an idiot or uncaring?
Teaching responsibility: wife vs mother. Who’s to blame?
NTA: Wife hates feeling like his mom, suggests hinting with reminders
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Wife calls out husband for forgetting birthdays, suggests reasonable solution
NTA. Educate your husband on ‘mental load’ and ’emotional labor’
NTA. Husband conveniently remembers dates that matter to him.
Married a child? NTA, but is he immature?
“NTA – We’re a team! Let’s split the birthday duties ✨”
Husband forgets birthdays, blames wife. ♂️ Calendar didn’t help.
Clever revenge plan to teach forgetful husband a lesson!
NTA – Train him right! Don’t be the calendar for him.
NTA, it sucks that they’re ganging up on you about this
“Husband forgets birthdays, but wife refuses to be his secretary.”
NTA: Birthdays matter, but he doesn’t seem to care. ♀️
Engaging comment about sharing mental and emotional labor in relationships.
Married to a toddler? NTA, but that’s gotta be tough!
Does his mother expect you to wipe his butt, too?
NTA for forgetting birthdays, but wife has a solution
Strategic incompetence or genuine forgetfulness? Wife, don’t cave in!
NTA. Boyfriend’s forgetfulness solved with a clever phone hack!
NTA: Husband needs to put in effort, you’re not his secretary
OP’s video game launch analogy brilliantly proves their point!
YTA for forgetting birthdays, but this comment goes off-topic
Is he forgetful or just plain irresponsible?
NTA: Husband’s immaturity causes family birthday forgetfulness
NTA, trying to help makes you not the a**hole
NTA. Ex shuts down husband’s birthday forgetfulness.
NTA – Compromise and accountability, you’re doing your part!
Teamwork fail: Husband blames wife for forgetting family birthdays.
“Video games vs family responsibilities? NTA, time to grow up!”
NTA. Empowering response to gender stereotypes. Good for you!
NTA. Emotional labor and sexism
