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Going through the mundane of life can make even the most thoughtful parent forget things, but a mom pregnant with her fifth baby is going viral for the truly sad way she spent her birthday morning after her husband completely forgot about it.
Haley Brooks, a TikTok user (@haleybrookshouse) and medical provider pregnant with her fifth baby, shared the video of her husband forgetting her birthday, and it quickly took off, reaching over 25 million views.
The video wasn’t just widely viewed, however. Instead, it garnered so many sympathetic and even outright angry comments over her husband’s completely thoughtless treatment of her that she had to shut commenting off.
The video shows the heavily pregnant mom alone after her husband disappeared in the morning, so she got breakfast for the kids, took a shower, and waited for him to come back.
In a moment that tugs at your heartstrings, she even waited to eat breakfast herself, hoping that maybe he had left to bring her back a special breakfast to eat.
By the time 11:00 a.m. rolled around, however, she realized that he was not bringing her breakfast, so she ate a reheated frozen French toast stick alone at the table.
She continued to wait, hoping that maybe her husband had planned something else she would enjoy, like a manicure.
However, when he still didn’t return, she resigned herself to doing her nails at home.
Her husband eventually returned back home at 12:40 p.m. and said he had been “run a call.”
Eventually, her husband seemed to finally remember her birthday, and his reaction was...not good.
At 5:30 that evening, her husband again left the home and texted her that he was leaving to “go get her surprise” and chided her to “not make a fuss,” adding that the surprise could not have been pre-planned; it had to be the day of.
(Haley also explained earlier in the video that it was one of her ‘pet peeves’ when people rush to get a gift at the last-minute instead of planning ahead, as it completely takes the intention and joy out of the gift-giving.)
Two hours later, the mom received her disappointing 'surprise.'
The “surprise” turned out to be her husband disappearing again â this time for two hours â and returning with one pizza, a 2-liter of Dr. Pepper (which the pregnant mom can’t drink), and a bag of chips she ‘had never heard of.’
Haley’s birthday ended with a heartbreaking video of her sitting alone at the table after feeding the kids, Dr. Pepper down her dress after it exploded when she opened it, her head in her hands.
â’Donât fuss’ aka donât bring it up because I have the emotional intelligence of a potato and donât want to have to admit I suck and forgot your birthday,” pointed out a TikToker in the second video. “Girl, youâre already a single married mother. You donât need that ‘man’.”
Other commenters were equal parts outraged and heartbroken on Haley’s behalf.
“If he wonât do this stuff for you and doesnât want to- he never will!” wrote a concerned commenter. “Find someone who puts you first and actually cares. Youâre getting far below the bare minimum.”
“This hurts my heart,” observed a commenter.Â
“This is sad đ please leave him bro,” added another with a crying face emoji.Â
However, the story doesn't seem to end there, as Haley has recently posted videos saying that she 'got out' to show her daughter 'the example of what is ok to accept.'
While Haley has not outright commented on the exact status of her relationship, her videos have seemed to insinuate that she made a big life change and posted about “choosing herself.”
Comments flooded in expressing relief that Haley seems to have left the relationship after the birthday incident.
“You did it ????? omg yay đ so proud of you …” wrote one commenter.
“We will be ok,” Haley replied. “All a part of the journey to get where we need to be.”
