Personal responsibility doesn’t disappear just because life gets busy.

So when one husband forgot his wife’s birthday and blamed her kids for not reminding him, it was clear who had actually dropped the ball.

Read on for the full dilemma.

AITA for not reminding my mom’s husband of her birthday?

He has been married to her for two years. Dated for one before that.

I (26) knew he’s quite busy but didn’t think he would forget.

Unlike him, they actually remembered their mother’s birthday.

On Mom’s birthday, my brother and I got her one present each. Her favorite actress is starring in a new series, so I bought her the novel it’s based on, so she can read it before the show is released. My brother got her a Popmart figurine.

When we went over to their house and her husband realized that he forgot, he got upset.

Then he started shifting the blame.

He said we should have warned him since we know how much time he spends at work and that things can slip his mind.

AITA for not reminding him?

Sounds like this one’s all on him.

Redditors were decidedly unsympathetic.

Surely he didn’t get this far in his career being this forgetful right?

We’re too technologically advanced as a society to be making mistakes like this.

This man doesn’t strike this commenter as the appreciative type.

This should have never even happened in the first place.

A simple apology could have helped ease the tension, but it couldn’t distract from the fact that he had lost sight of a date that really mattered.

This man needs a calendar, an assistant or just a reality check.

If you liked that story, read this one about grandparents who set up a college fund for their grandkid because his parents won’t, but then his parents want to use the money to cover sibling’s medical expenses.