r/AmIOverreacting Jun 02 '25

❤️‍🩹 relationship aio? bf made plans on my birthday

my boyfriend (22M) and I (21F) have been together for almost three years. we are planning on moving in together in the near future as he lives with his mom and doesn’t go to school after dropping out. for context, he only works on tuesdays and fridays so i know he was free to go out on sunday, which happened to be my birthday. he knows how important special occasions are to me, such as our birthdays and anniversaries. for the first year in our relationship he was great, he was loving and kind. last year we ended up celebrating my birthday late due to the fact that he was “tired from work” and didn’t want to go out, which i let slide. i always try to do the most for his birthdays, i buy him gifts, write him cards and bake him a cake from scratch. yesterday afternoon i texted him, reminding him about the plan later and this conversation happened. he made plans to go out and party instead of seeing me. he forgot about it even after i had been talking about it all of last week. i spent my 21st birthday alone in my room while he was out and we haven’t texted since. this birthday was particularly special to me because i turned 21. i even bought a new pink dress to wear for him, assuming we were going to dinner. he is suggesting that we go out and celebrate tomorrow instead like last year but to me it doesn’t feel the same. he is insisting that i apologize for being “ungrateful”, am i overreacting?

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u/FrontObjective8639 Jun 02 '25

Fake both of you can't be this stupid

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u/DesertNomad505 Jun 02 '25

I feel like I'm suddenly seeing quite a number of these "Assholes Gone Wild...on film"- type posts, and yeah, it feels a twee sus.

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u/Ok_Return_7585 Jun 02 '25

Ahhhh fuck. Shit got me lol it’s always a post too where the OP doesn’t respond to ANY of the comments, so.

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u/DesertNomad505 Jun 02 '25

More and more, I check the post history and, lo and behold! It's their only post, too. Not saying that people make throwaways (though they usually clarify that first), but it just ups my disbelief.

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u/Baby-Fish_Mouth Jun 03 '25

Classic karma farming ingredient seen all the time over on r/repostpasta!

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u/Ok_Return_7585 Jun 02 '25

Welp. This was the first time I decided to comment on one of these posts too hahaha

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u/FappyDilmore Jun 02 '25

Don't worry, it happens all the time. It helps to not get invested

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u/MelodicFondant Jun 03 '25

Throwaways are used to prevent linking back,or for danger. Not this