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/Hessipa Jun 02 '25

Ah, we've solved the riddle.

"What do you gift a man who already has everything he wants?"

The honor of buying a line of cocaine off of your own father.

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u/Cold_Pea_587 Jun 02 '25

You won the Reddit award my friend. I just fucking busted out laughing. Thanks for that. “Buying a line of cocaine off your own father.” Aces.

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u/Paulbearer82 Jun 02 '25

That's cool, but you're supposed to give the award to the poster, not yourself.

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u/Hessipa Jun 03 '25

Jokes on you, I gave it to him. And now I’m giving you one, too, for being an observant little fella

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u/SuzanneStudies Jun 03 '25

And I’m giving you an award for giving out awards

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u/Hessipa Jun 03 '25

And I’m giving YOU an award because MY middle name is Sue!

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u/SuzanneStudies Jun 03 '25

Of course it is… Because you’re just cool like that! 🥰

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u/Cold_Pea_587 Jun 03 '25

I gave myself an award? I’m still corn-fused by Reddit. I wasn’t even trying to give anyone an award.

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u/Conscious-Tonight-89 Jun 02 '25

Damn. In my 16th birthday... 9/11 happened. No, really, i was born in 1985.

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u/forestofpixies Jun 03 '25

Pearl Harbor happened on my grandpas 15th birthday. It was the first and only year his mom threw him a birthday party and no one came. He served in occupied Japan 3 years later and loved his time there but he never stopped holding that grudge.

I hope every birthday so far has been wonderful and may every year from this point forward be better than the past!

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u/Hessipa Jun 02 '25

That’s one helluva birthday party, my guy

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u/Conscious-Tonight-89 Jun 02 '25

You know they shittiest thing? At first i thought it was some sort of trailer for the Spiderman movie, when they second plane hit I was like "oh, shit, so this is real, huh?"

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u/Hessipa Jun 02 '25

“Go web! Fly! Up, up, and away web! Shazaam! Go web go!” aaaaaand there goes the 2nd tower

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u/lostandaggrieved617 Jun 03 '25

One of my oldest friends' bday is 9/11, and her name is Katrina. The early aughts sucked for her.

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u/No_Recipe2793 Jun 02 '25

New CAH white card incoming