July 31, 2025 at 7:15 pm

Man Celebrates His Birthday With Happy Hour, Brunch, A Pool Party And A Vacation, But He’s Still Complaining

by Jayne Elliott

six happy friends with sitting by the edge of a swimming pool

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Imagine planning a lot of fun activities to celebrate your partner’s birthday. We’re talking going out with friends, a pool party and even a vacation!

Would you be upset if your partner complained about the birthday celebrations?

In this story, one person is pretty annoyed when their partner has the nerve to criticize the fun birthday festivities in his honor, but now, this person is also wondering if they messed up by snapping back.

Let’s read the whole story.

AITA for telling partner I have had enough of his birthday celebrations?

My partner’s birthday fell on a Tuesday this year, so he decided to kick off the celebrations a week early!

We had happy hour with friends on Friday, brunch on Saturday, and a pool party on Sunday.

Then, on his actual birthday, he wants to go out to dinner at his favorite restaurant (of course, with friends!).

I’m exhausted of entertaining, coordinating, cooking!

For all the celebrating, he doesn’t sound very grateful.

His main birthday gift is a pretty awesome trip, but since we’re leaving two days after his birthday, I don’t think it quite feels like a birthday present to him.

He wasn’t thrilled with the food at the pool party and said he would had done something else instead.

It took a lot of work to make the party happen.

I was very upset because friends helped decorate, someone baked a cake, etc.

I may have said some things in the moment about how much effort everyone was putting in and how entitled he was coming across.

AITA for calling him out as selfish and self-centered?

The birthday boy needs to be more grateful! It sounds like he celebrated in a LOT of amazing ways!

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

He’s expecting too much.

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Seriously, who has time to celebrate this many times?

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This person thinks this celebration sounds exhausting.

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He’s not as special as he thinks he is.

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He must think he’s the center of the universe!

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