Planning a low-key celebration for someone you love can get complicated when friends start making their own guest lists.

Imagine organizing a small dinner and hockey game for your partner’s birthday, but someone insists on bringing a plus-one you barely know. Do you cave and let them attend? Or do you stand your ground to keep it small?

In the following story, a wife finds herself facing this very dilemma and doesn’t plan to let the plus-one come. Here’s what’s going on.

AITA? Husbands Birthday Guest List

My husband and I have a few close friends we see frequently, and I’ve invited them to a hockey game and dinner with us for my husband’s birthday.

One of the friends, after being invited, says, “Put [girlfriend] on the list.”

This bothered me at the time, but I didn’t say anything.

The girl recently had her own party.

His girlfriend won’t be invited.

We’ve only met her twice, and this is a small birthday party for my husband.

GF also just had a birthday party two weeks ago; my husband and I weren’t invited.

For the record, we didn’t want to go anyway because we don’t really know her.

What do I say if the friend brings it up again?

I’ll be buying the hockey game tickets together, but I won’t be buying her one.

AITA?

Eek! That’s quite a predicament.

Let’s check out what the folks over at Reddit think she should do.

This reader offers some advice.

Here’s a good question.

She’s in the wrong, according to this reader.

For this person, she should stand her ground.

She should ask her husband. After all, it’s his party.

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