A mom is fed up with her fiance because he keeps telling her secrets to her kids.
She shared the dilemma on Reddit’s “Am I the A******? (AITA)” forum. Her fiancé can’t keep a secret. He has spoiled surprises for her children, from a previous relationship, on multiple occasions. And he always has an excuse for doing so. She’d finally had enough when he started to spoil her surprise vacation for her sons.
“My fiancé and I have been together for five years,” he said. “I have two boys aged 10 and 6 from my previous relationship. My fiancé fits in with my little family well but one thing I cannot stand is that this man cannot keep a secret to save his life and always has to be the ‘fun’ parent.
“I have talked to him about it several times, and he always says something to excuse it. Like, I wanted to bring the kids out to eat to a nice dinner. Instead of just letting me figure out plans, he immediately ran in and told the boys we were bringing them out to eat and asked where they wanted to go. No discussion with me about it. Didn’t ask if I had a restaurant in mind. So that p***** me off because, well, we ended up at McDonald’s. Where I can’t eat.”
When her fiancé spoiled yet another surprise for the kids, that was the last straw.
“I planned a trip to bring my kids to the Boston Aquarium and the Boston Museum of Science last weekend, and I purposely didn’t tell my fiancé because I know how he is,” she explained. “I wanted it to be a surprise. I planned to bring them to the Wolf Lodge the next day for a four-day mini-vacation. Well, I had left the tab up (not open) on my computer, and my fiancé found that I had purchased tickets. I immediately told him he better keep his mouth shut because it’s a surprise for the boys.
“At first, he did, but when we got in the car the day we were leaving, and the kids asked where we were going, he told them immediately. I was f****** fuming. I didn’t talk to him the whole trip, and when I got home, I canceled his ticket for the Wolf Lodge, told him why and asked him to leave for the night. I didn’t want him ruining yet another surprise planned that I had for the kids. He thinks I’m being too hard on him because ‘he is excited, too, and that’s why he can’t keep his mouth closed,’ but I’m honestly done with it.”
Redditors thought her fiancé was behaving badly.
“This is parenting, not a competition,” someone wrote.
“This is a weird power struggle he’s having with you, and they’re not his kids,” another commented.
“This sounds like a grown man acting like a selfish and petulant child,” a person added.
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