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Hubby ate daughters Easter Eggs!

206 replies

peanuts18 · 02/05/2022 12:27

AIBU? daughter has gone out for the day with Nan and grandad, I’m cleaning the kitchen and notice the plastic tub in the cupboard which had about 4 broken up Easter eggs (daughters eggs) is empty.
He then said ‘oh I ate them last night as I wanted chocolate, she’s got other ones in there’
Shes got about 2 other eggs and odd bits left.
shes going to be so upset when she finds out as it was her ‘special box’ of eggs
Anyway he has stormed out saying I’m being stupid and she’s got to learn to share. I think he’s a pig in both ways!!!

OP posts:
Momicrone · 02/05/2022 12:43

It's just chocolate, jeez, buy her some more if she's so upset

Florrey · 02/05/2022 12:43

It’s stealing. I only eat my kids eggs if they’re something they don’t like or aren’t interested in. But if they want them and are actively eating them of course I won’t take any. Your DH has stormed off because he doesn’t like being called out for his greed and he knows he’s in the wrong.

Hesma · 02/05/2022 12:44

He shouldn’t have done it but you’re completely overreacting!

LightningAndRainbows · 02/05/2022 12:44

Whatsmyname100 · 02/05/2022 12:42

Oh fgs it's just chocolate and she's old enough to know to share. We ate ds eggs and he still had a few leftover.

That's an awful message to send her though. You have to just put up with people stealing your stuff for themselves.

ChateauxNeufDePoop · 02/05/2022 12:44

Whatsmyname100 · 02/05/2022 12:42

Oh fgs it's just chocolate and she's old enough to know to share. We ate ds eggs and he still had a few leftover.

It's the owner who gets to decide on the sharing and it's not really sharing if the dad has eaten most of it and offered none of his in return.

ldontWanna · 02/05/2022 12:44

I assume that all the posters that think it's not a big deal don't ever expect their kids to ask before eating anything, or kick off if they eat more than their fair "share".

WhatNoRaisins · 02/05/2022 12:45

It's been 2 weeks, does she even still want them now?

Staynow · 02/05/2022 12:45

My ds still remembers when i ate his kitkat once and brings it up regularly despite the fact I replaced it. It's not the end of the world that he ate them IMO but he does need to replace them. Hopefully that's what he gone out to do.

theRealBlueSmartie · 02/05/2022 12:47

He needs to replace them

SamphirethePogoingStickerist · 02/05/2022 12:48

Momicrone · 02/05/2022 12:37

Oh god, I eat my kids chocolate eggs, they never finish them. No big deal

My dad used to do this.

DSis would eat hers quite quickly. I'd make mine last. At some point he'd decide I wasn't going to eat them and would finish them off. I was eating them, enjoying making them last.

And then he'd main at me for being upset.

This is one of the many small injuries that led the adult me to leave home and go VLC very early in life. I'm tapping 60 now and have never seen any reason to change that!

Sometimes small actions that disregard the feelings if another add up to a lot of hurt Sometimes

supersop60 · 02/05/2022 12:49

His reaction is guilt. He knows he shouldn't have taken it.
To all those pp who say the dd should learn to share - I'm sure she would have IF she'd been asked.
My DM did it to me one Easter Sunday - I broke up an egg and took bits to family members around the house. On returning to the living room there was none left, and I'd had none.
Way to teach kids about boundaries!

Doyoumind · 02/05/2022 12:49

It's not the same as having a bit once the kids are in bed. Yes, probably a lot of parents do that. But eating the whole lot of something difficult to replace - like Easter eggs - is a shit thing to do and shows a disregard for her things and her feelings.

Momicrone · 02/05/2022 12:50

#i don't wanna - no my kids don't have to ask to eat anything, they can just help themselves, we're not a massive chocolate, snacky family anyway, but nothing is limited. I don't get this possessive nature over food.

DarleneSnell · 02/05/2022 12:50

Momicrone · 02/05/2022 12:43

It's just chocolate, jeez, buy her some more if she's so upset

This. Mountains and molehills spring to mind!

jessieminto · 02/05/2022 12:52

Make him tell her and explain it. Be on hand to make him accountable and ask her what daddy needs to do to make this up to her.

DeskInUse · 02/05/2022 12:53

She's got to learn to share?? That's not sharing, that's someone stealing or taking without asking

ExtraOnion · 02/05/2022 12:53

What a load of fuss about chocolate .. why does it matter ? There are two more to go at anyway.

“special box of bits of Easter Egg” how amazingly precious. Just beak up the other two in there

If the biggest issue you have right now is that DDs Easter Eggs, are now only going to last 3 weeks instead of 4, you are probably not doing too bad on life.

Ikeptgoing · 02/05/2022 12:54

Your DH is a greedy pig. That was DDs chocolate egg, no matter how many more she had. It'd be different if she'd offered

He's an adult that's perfectly capable of going to the shops to buy chocolate 🍫 for himself

He got the chocolate nibbles and should apologise but if I was his DD I'd hide the rest of my Easter eggs and hide next years once I was given them
They aren't his to eat...

Tsuni · 02/05/2022 12:54

Look at all the women on the thread admitting they eat their children's Easter eggs and noone is calling them greedy selfish cunts.

She's 7, she didn't need 6 Easter eggs.

HeadNorth · 02/05/2022 12:55

People that routinely eats their kids chocolate - do you have a weight problem? I find it a really odd concept to take someone else's chocolate without asking.

What is the reason you don't ask your child for a piece rather than just take it without asking?

sst1234 · 02/05/2022 12:55

He ate her chocolate, not blow her trust fund. Did he?

Momicrone · 02/05/2022 12:55

Samphire- er my kids don't mind, barely notice, I wouldn't do anything to intentionally piss them off, but they're just not really into chocolate that much

DockOTheBay · 02/05/2022 12:56

Did he eat 4 whole easter eggs? I eat bits of my kids eggs, especially the 2 year old, but not a whole box full in one go.

Momicrone · 02/05/2022 12:56

Headnorth - no I do not have a problem with my weight, eating a bit of chocolate every now and then is hardly an issue

DockOTheBay · 02/05/2022 12:58

HeadNorth · 02/05/2022 12:55

People that routinely eats their kids chocolate - do you have a weight problem? I find it a really odd concept to take someone else's chocolate without asking.

What is the reason you don't ask your child for a piece rather than just take it without asking?

No I don't have a weight problem
My kids are 5 and 2. They were given 3 eggs and about 4 packets of small eggs each (despite me asking people to get them something other than chocolate).
Last Easter i didn't eat any of their chocolate and they still had some left at Christmas because we only give them small amounts at a time.

They would give me some chocolate if I asked them, so this year I've eaten a few of the small ones here and there or used it in baking. Otherwise it just goes to waste.