Some people seem like they are constantly running late no matter how much you tell them that they need to be on time.

What would you do if your wife was always running late, making you prod her to get ready for every event, which got old quick?

That is what the husband in this story dealt with, so he finally told her he wouldn’t be doing that anymore, and when they were late to a concert with her favorite artist, she got mad at him and went to stay with her mom.

Check it out.

AITAH for letting my chronically late wife miss an event she was looking forward to by not rushing her, because I wanted her to face consequences?

My wife (32F) and I (31M) have been together for 5 years.

I’m fed up with my wife’s chronic lateness to many things. It’s really annoying and grates on my nerves.

She sounds very self-centered.

To her, it seems like no big deal because I always manage to rush her by telling her the time of an event 45 minutes earlier.

She’s never noticed EARLIER because she’s too caught up with herself, constantly taking photos.

That’s the reason she’s always late.

She has a decent following on Instagram and is looking to grow as a “content creator.”

I find it really silly how she turns everything we do into a photo session, and at this point, I’ve stopped agreeing to take her photos altogether.

She doesn’t change because she faces no consequences.

We’ve had several conversations about this.

I’ve told her that it’s mentally exhausting for me to always have to stay on top of making sure we both get ready according to plan.

But she never really does anything to address it.

This time, I wanted her to experience the consequences of her actions.

This month alone, we’ve been embarrassingly late to events 2 times, and this time was the first she realized I hadn’t been honest about the timing because I used to give her an ETA 40 minutes earlier.

A week ago, I told her I wouldn’t be doing that anymore and that I expected her to act like an adult and be more responsible.

It was her birthday this weekend, and I got her tickets to an event featuring several performers, including her favorite artists in the first act.

She set her own priorities and needs to live with that.

This time, as I’d already told her before, I didn’t give her the extra 40-minute buffer.

I expected her to remember our conversation and store that information in her head to plan accordingly.

Instead, she did her whole influencer routine—decorating our room, setting up studio lights, dressing up, and taking photos.

The whole time, I knew she was missing out on her favorite artist because she didn’t take me seriously.

It was so ironic that I didn’t even feel like reminding her.

I’m done with the mental burden of always rushing and planning.

How can she possibly blame him?

We arrived, and she realized what had happened.

She got upset and started crying, asking how I could do this to her on her birthday.

She said it seemed like I was liking the rise it got from her and asked why I couldn’t set my “ego” aside for one day.

I told her this was on her, I’d already made it clear I wasn’t going to rush anymore, and she should have listened the first time and expected me to follow through, unlike her.

She said the whole point of the event was to see the performances of those artists, who we’d just missed.

She was incredibly upset and kept crying off and on during the event.

It isn’t her room, it is their room. She doesn’t get to dictate who sleeps where.

The ride home was awkward.

I was in the downstairs restroom when she texted me saying I wasn’t welcome in the bedroom that night.

I ignored her message and went in while she was changing. She looked like she wanted to kill me, and I simply told her that her saying I’m not welcome was irrelevant because it’s my room too.

If she’s uncomfortable, she could take the couch.

She ended up leaving to visit her mom, and I’m considering whether I was out of line?

AITA?

She is finally facing the consequences of her actions for once and she doesn’t like it.

Her reaction is immature and entitled.

Hopefully this will be a wakeup call for her.

Read on to see what the people in the comments say about it.

This commenter says she is finally dealing with the consequences.

Chronically late people are oblivious to the issue.

I mean, this commenter isn’t wrong.

This commenter says he wouldn’t put up with it as long as he did.

This person struggles with this issue too.

Why is it that the self-centered people get upset when their actions cause problems?

This woman made herself late and had the nerve to blame her husband?

Unreal.

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.