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My husband Todd turned 35, and I spent two weeks planning the fancy birthday dinner he<\/em> demanded\u2014handwritten place cards, a spotless house, gourmet food, even gold on the cake. But an hour before guests arrived, he ditched everything to watch a game at the bar with his friends.<\/p>\n After six years of marriage, I was used to Todd\u2019s entitlement. Holidays, parties\u2014he took all the credit while I did all the work. But this? This was the last straw.<\/p>\n So I didn\u2019t cancel the dinner.<\/p>\n I packed up every dish, drove to the bar, and set up the entire feast right there. As people gathered, I announced, \u201cThis was supposed to be my husband\u2019s birthday dinner\u2026 but he decided the game was more important.\u201d<\/p>\n Todd panicked. His parents arrived. My parents arrived. Everyone learned exactly why we were eating in a bar instead of my beautifully decorated home.<\/p>\n And the cake? It read: \u201cHappy Birthday to My Selfish Husband.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The whole bar laughed. Todd didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n He said I \u201cembarrassed\u201d him. I told him he embarrassed himself.<\/p>\n Two weeks later, Todd is suddenly polite, careful, and way less demanding. Amazing what a little public accountability can do.<\/p>\n What would you<\/em> have done?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My husband Todd turned 35, and I spent two weeks planning the fancy birthday dinner he demanded\u2014handwritten place cards, a spotless house, gourmet food, even gold on the cake. But an hour before guests arrived, he ditched everything to watch a game at the bar with his friends. After six years of marriage, I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10104,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102\/revisions\/10104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}