Woman calls out husband over his ‘forgetful’ personality: ‘I couldn’t imagine forgetting my anniversary’
A woman is fed up with her husband forgetting their anniversaries, so she stopped caring about them too.
She asked Reddit’s “Am I the A******? (AITA)” forum to weigh in after an incident. Her husband doesn’t keep track of any dates, including their children’s birthdays, anniversaries and holidays. After years of disappointment, she stopped keeping track too. But when her husband discovered they hadn’t celebrated an anniversary in five years, he became angry.
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“My husband and I have a very good and loving relationship,” she explained. “He cannot/will not remember the dates of important milestones. I spent the first few years of our marriage sulking about him forgetting my birthday, and since then, I plan it out myself and let him know what I want as a gift.”
“He always forgets our wedding anniversary, and after eight years of planning and having him simply ‘participate,’ I left it on him to do something on this one event. He forgot it every year since then. We’ve been married for thirteen years now, and we haven’t celebrated our anniversary for the past five years. I’ve made my peace with that.”
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But when the husband realized she had also stopped keeping track of their anniversaries, he became upset.
“We had a family gathering this weekend, and in a group conversation, someone asked my husband how long we’ve been married,” she wrote. “He did this, ‘Oh I don’t know, wife keeps tracks of these things.’ And he and his siblings are all like, ‘Haha, typical husband.’ They ask me how long we’ve been married, and I did the same tone of ‘Oh, I don’t know, who can remember, haha.'”
“Everybody became a bit awkward, and [my] husband looked upset at me. Later, he asked me why I’d say that, and I said that we don’t celebrate our anniversary, so it’s not at the forefront of my mind. The realization that we haven’t celebrated our anniversary in years came as a surprise to him. I do remember how long we’ve been married, but I am pretending not to because if he can’t bother to remember and celebrate, then I shouldn’t be expected to either.”
Redditors felt the husband was being unfair.
“My husband is forgetful too, but OP’s husband not only doesn’t care, he thinks that [it] is HER responsibility to track all these things,” a user wrote.
“I have pretty bad memory problems, and I couldn’t imagine forgetting my anniversary,” another said.
“This man may not remember much, but he does have the ability to buy himself a calendar and use it,” someone commented.
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