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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/azrielsowl on 2023-09-20 13:14:17.

It was my husband’s birthday yesterday so I planned a birthday dinner with both of our families for him which he basically missed because his meeting overran by a lot. Our son is 3 and I have him in a routine so I made sure he ate at his regular time. I didn’t want to give him a load of sugar right before bed because I knew he wouldn’t sleep, so I let him have some of the cake once he had finished his dinner.

I don’t think it’s a big deal because my son is the one who wanted to buy the cake as a present for his dad otherwise I probably wouldn’t have got one as my husband isn’t a big cake fan. My sister-in-law (my husband’s brother’s wife) is the one who turned this into an issue because she told me it was rude for us to cut the cake without the birthday boy and I should make my son wait since my husband would be home “soon”. I know my husband and soon could mean anywhere from 20 mins to 3 hours and I wasn’t going to wait that long so I gave my son the cake.

Multiple people told me I shouldn’t have done it after my sister-in-law spoke up and I’ll be honest, they were getting under my skin since why should my son miss out on the cake because his dad is late?

My husband came home over an hour later and when he saw the cake he jokingly told our son off for stealing his cake but he wasn’t being serious.

AITA?