What is the worst birthday you have ever had?

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14 because of a broken leg

My last one. I was a few months separated from my exH and was struggling massively. Let's hope this year is better!

My 21st. My boyfriend dumped me!

Princess Diana dying on my birthday wasn't great.

My best friend's funeral was on my birthday. We were in our 20s

My 40th. My then partner was a mummy's boy, and mummy was having some kind of party, so of course mummy counted more than me. He chose mummy's little get together, to which I wasn't invited. Honestly, I look back at that relationship and wonder why the hell I put up with his shit for so long.

My last one when I had to have my pony put to sleep.

My 18th was pretty shit. My then boyfriend told me that his plan for my birthday was to cut my hair off in my sleep.

On my 21st there was so much snow, no one could do anything to celebrate so I literally did nothing.

On my 36th birthday, in 2000, my mum died

My 30th.
My first as a single parent after leaving an abusive marriage. I was trying to build friendships (hadn’t been allowed to have friends) so invited a few school mums round to celebrate. Nobody turned up.

19th, I'd gone back to uni after the holidays and just felt lost and homesick.
And the two I lost due to major COVID lockdowns, one was a significant one - and that's one of the many reasons I despise Boris Johnson with every bone in my body, he didn't follow any fucking rules on his birthday.

My 16th bday. I had a test the next day so had to study. My parents were taking me out for dinner but my dad had to work last minute dot com , all we had in was corn beef ( ugh) and chips and my boyfriend had dumped me the day before.

My 40th birthday party.
Unbeknown to me, my partner and father of our toddler was seeing someone else.
So he engineered a massive fall out the night of my birthday, at a huge party all my friends and family were at, so he could leave and be with his new girlfriend.
Wanker.

My 27th. I was 12 weeks pregnant and had a scan to find out my baby died at 8 weeks, I miscarried and laboured naturally that night on my bathroom floor. I still ate my cake though 😅 it’s my 30th this year and have my one year old little boy and we’re going away, much better 🥰

Oh god sorry to everyone x My 21st was my grandad’s funeral, my dad turned around halfway through the day and said ‘oh god it’s your birthday isn’t it?’

Such sad stories on here. I hope you all went on to have better birthdays.

My mum is bipolar and I had a couple of childhood birthdays where she was in crisis and nobody else (including my dad/brother) remembered it was my birthday.

32nd. I spent it in surgery following a 16week missed miscarriage at my 20 week scan.

Last one when I got diagnosed with breast cancer just before. Didn’t feel like celebrating.

My 30th in 2020. I was heavily pregnant and DH was stuck abroad working as an “essential worker”. No family/friends would come near me because at the time pregnant women were being classed as “highly vulnerable” and they were all worried they’d give me covid 🫠

So I sat in our house alone, furloughed from work, and literally did nothing other than watch tv 🤣 like I was stuck doing for 3/4 of my pregnancy 🫠👍🏻

My 40th. My now exDH made no effort whatsoever despite heavy hints of things I would like to do because (I realised later) he was planning to leave. He took me to the local pub where we had been a thousand times before and he knew it was not what I would have wanted to do. It was very underwhelming. Some family/friends came. His affair partner was also there (she worked for him). She could not look me in the eye , did not wish me Happy Birthday and hardly spoke to me all evening which I found really odd as I had known her for years. Following this the penny started to drop,.

17, my mum died

28
I lost my grandad when I was 14 and very conscious this birthday was half my life without him so was struggling

Nobody else remembered-my mother claimed she 'forgot' (bollocks-im the scapegoat and had a row with her the week before because i wouldnt bend to her will and this was my punishment),my father and brothers think its 'womans work' to remember birthdays,my dc where too young to do anything and I didnt really have many friends

To top it all off,I was super skint and couldn't even afford a small cake or treat to cheer myself up

Fast forward a few years and the worst christmas was when the kids (who where adults by this point) all arranged to spend Christmas with partners families,didnt give me much of a thought,all thinking that another sibling would be with me,leaving me on my own and I didnt have one present or card to open

I hate birthdays and Christmas now

My mum got rushed into hospital on my birthday, she already had terminal cancer but this was the beginning of the end. She was moved to a hospice after a week in hospital and died 3 weeks later .

33 - my post recent one where I spent most of the day in hospital having my miscarriage confirmed, and plans made for it’s surgical management.

8th birthday.
My mum had died the previous year and this was my first birthday living with a cold, authoritarian and abusive father who I had never met more than occasionally prior to my mum dying.

I was allowed some new friends (change of area and school) to the house and he slapped my face in front of them because I was a bit excited and had touched the curtains to draw them forgetting this wasn’t allowed.

I was so embarrassed and so were the other children.

Nobody said a word but I didn’t ask anybody home ever again.