‘Private’ Man Claims Wife Threw Him a Party for Be@ting Cancer, but He Pretended He Had to Work and Left
In a post on Reddit’s popular “Am I the A——?,” the social media user, who described himself as a 35-year-old man, wrote that he is “very private.”
“I don’t like attention on me and prefer to keep things low key whenever I can,” he wrote.
“Keeping that in mind, I was diagnosed with an extremely curable type of skin cancer” that was caught “very early on,” the Redditor explained. However, while he claimed that he never felt “scared for my life in any way, shape or form,” he wrote that his wife was “terrified” and that they initially agreed not to tell their two daughters, ages 5 and 7.
“About a week later, I get a call from my dad…..asking about my cancer. Turns out, my wife posted on FB about my cancer that morning,” the Redditor wrote, claiming that he “wasn’t happy that she posted my business.”
“There is no way she would think I wanted that posted online, no matter what I said,” he continued, going on to claim that she then “took it down.”
After he got the remission news, the man claimed that he hoped they would be able to put the experience behind them “very quickly.”
Instead, he wrote in the Reddit post that his “ecstatic” wife threw him a “surprise party.”
“She’s never done anything like this and we’ve talked about how I would hate a surprise party multiple times,” he wrote. “I asked what this is for [and] said ‘I’m sorry, but I didn’t know you planned this, I’m just coming back for some files and heading back to work.’ ”
“It was a lie,” the man admitted. “I gathered up some meaningless files in my office and said thanks to everyone for coming and left to go back to my office, messing around on my phone until everyone left.”
The Redditor claimed that he and his wife had an argument later that night and that he felt like “she doesn’t get to make a big deal out of something personal I never wanted to be public in the first place,”
But, he went on to say that his brother thought he was in the wrong. “So, AITA for not wanting to celebrate beating my cancer?” he asked.
