Birthday cake is a great treat to help celebrate the person’s birthday, but everyone can enjoy it, not just the person celebrating their birthday.

What would you do if you had leftover birthday cake from your wife’s birthday, and she got upset at you for eating it?

That is what happened to the husband in this story, but he doesn’t feel like he did anything wrong since the cake was just going to go bad if he didn’t eat it.

Who is in the wrong here? Let’s read the whole story.

AITAH for eating most of her birthday cake?

My wife (32f) and I (35m) were recently on vacation over the 4th of July, which also happens to be my wife’s birthday.

We had all the normal traditions for our family, including cake. We all had a piece day-of but almost nobody ate cake the entire rest of the trip.

When the time came to return home, in-laws (MIL made the cake) offered to send the whole thing with us because they “didn’t need all that and we will probably just throw it away.”

My wife hates food waste, so she brought it.

He’s had several pieces of cake.

The journey home was two days by car. It has since been two additional days since we got back.

Each night after dinner, I’ve had a reasonably sized piece of the cake for desert.

I used to be a bigger guy and while I have much better habits now, I still have a soft spot for baked goods…the cake was “budgeted for” though and I had been looking forward to eating a little.

The cake was going to go bad anyway.

Well today my wife saw that there was only one slice left and was irate, saying I was completely selfish and had eaten almost all of HER cake.

I told her the cake had been available to all for nearly a week (counting days it sat on the counter before we took it home with us) and that nobody had bothered to touch it but me.

I did apologize after she finished explaining to me that it upset her but I don’t understand why it’s such a big deal to begin with. The cake was right there…she never even had a bite.

She has a habit of not eating leftovers.

For additional context, in the past she has requested that certain foods be saved for her as leftovers etc. I’ve obliged, only for that food to sit until it had become moldy and she claims she “forgot it was in there, oops.”

For someone who hates food waste, allegedly, I find this behavior doubly puzzling…

Was I wrong here?

AITA?

Unless she specifically said not to eat it, it is free game. Plus, there was still one piece in there for her. Did she expect the whole cake to be left alone until it went bad?

Let’s see if the people in the comments on Reddit have anything to say about the situation.

This is what gets me too.

He could have offered it to her each evening.

Right. Did she want half the cake all in one night?

I can’t imagine he was sneaking the cake and hiding the evidence.

She actually got the first and last slice.

There were many good options here, but getting upset is not one of them.

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.