Grief is a difficult thing – that goes without saying.

And we all grieve in different ways, triggered by different things.

Maybe it’s a song or a smell or a special place shared… or, as in this story from Reddit, a beloved cake, that has us pining for a lost loved one.

Find out the lengths this man went to in order to taste his late wife’s special cake one more time.

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery

My late wife passed 3 years ago, our two kids were in their late 20s at the time.

It’s been a hard few years and it is even harder now that I live alone.

She had a lovely dark chocolate cherry cake. It was my favorite thing that she would make and I always requested it for Father’s Day.

He misses his wife of course, and the cake that she always made to celebrate him. It makes sense that he would want to try it again.

I am a s*** baker and I have tried to remake it from her notes. The notes are not very clear and it never turns out correct.

It is depressing spending so much time and it being wrong.

Baking is more an art than a science and often even following the instructions to a T isn’t enough. He unfortunately didn’t have the magic touch.

I have asked my two kids to try and make it but they have refused to.

I was told that they will not figure out the recipe and to stop asking.

He tried to honor his children, but when they wouldn’t step up to help, he pursued other options.

I went to a local bakery and asked for them to figure it out.

They agree as long as I gave them the permission to sell the cake in the store.

It didn’t take them long to figure it out and it is almost exactly the same to my wife’s.

This should be an easy win for him. But the kids didn’t agree.

I bought one for Father’s Day and my kids were happy about the cake until I told them the bakery did it.

They are p***** I would sell their mothers recipe to a bakery.

That seems a little unfair.

This whole week they have been telling me how I am a jerk for this and I am wondering if I really am a jerk.

I just wanted to eat her cake again.

It sounds like the poor guy just wanted to enjoy something special his wife would do for him, and his kids are overreacting.

But let’s see what the commenters on Reddit have to say.

Top comment says they get it – he just wanted to remember his wife.

Another says that grief is complicated, and the kids might simply be lashing out because of theirs.

One comment questions the integrity of a family recipe to begin with.

One person wonders how the kids are so upset if they weren’t willing to help?

Have your cake and eat it to, says this commenter.

All he wanted was to bring the memory of his wife to life, and enjoy something that she used to make him.

I don’t see anything wrong with that.

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