AITAH For Kicking Out a Pregnant Lady From My Birthday Party?

A Reddit user shared an intense birthday party drama where he confronted his cousin and his cousin’s wife over an unapproved gender reveal.

The tension between them stemmed from past conflicts, and things escalated quickly when the wife announced the impromptu celebration without the host’s consent. Was the Redditor justified in setting boundaries, or did he overreact?
Read the full story below to find out:

‘ AITAH For Kicking Out a Pregnant Lady From My Birthday Party?’

I 27 M had my birthday party 2 weeks ago.My mother had planned a surprise party for me at my house since she has a spare key.She invited my 26 M cousin and his 26 F pregnant wife.I don’t have anything against my cousin but I do with his wife.

For some backstory my cousin used to live with me when he was in college.In his third year of college he met his now wife.It was all fine until in his last year of college his girlfriend moved in with us.

For the first weeks it was all right but then she started coming into my room and stealing my money which I confronted her about and she said that she hadn’t done it. This kept on for two more weeks until I kicked them out and since then me and my cousin haven’t talked much other then in his wedding.

Now back to my birthday party me and my cousin were catching up with each other it was all going good until I said how has yours and your wife’s life been after the wedding he was going to respond until his wife said stop being nosy that’s none of your business and I said well sorry.

After that I walked away I was talking with my mom and saw my cousin leave to his car and come back in with a big balloon and his wife said listen up everybody I have an announcement to make we will be doing our gender reveal here and I said no you won’t she said you can’t stop me bring the balloon.

As my cousin is walking to her I grab the gender reveal balloon out of his hand run outside and let the balloon fly away without popping it. After that I walked back in and kicked them out of my party and my cousin screamed at me because I round his gender reveal and his wife is crying and half of the guests leave and say I’m a bad person for what I did.

I haven’t talked to them since and my family thinks I’m a bad person for what I did. So AITA?

Let’s dive into the reactions from Reddit:

gramsknows −  NTA people need to stop hijacking other people’s events to save money. At least ask the person before you announce crap at their occasion!
How selfish and self center do you have to be to make someone else’s party about you?

Silaquix −  NTA. I would be petty and do a group text with everyone that was there and say:

” Look you cannot highjack someone else’s party just because you’re too cheap or broke to throw your own party. Especially since you never asked my permission or gave me a heads up. That is incredibly tacky and rude. I’m appalled at how some of you are supporting this entitled behavior.

How dare you try to make me the bad guy when I refused to let them make my birthday party about them. I’m not going to be a doormat and let people be rude and selfish towards me and then try to take over my events.“

Then I’d lay down an ultimatum of everyone who supported this crap needs to apologize or get blocked because you don’t need that toxicity in your life. Also if they claim they asked permission from your mom since she threw the party, you now have new info and can talk with your mom to confirm.

Put them on blast if they lied, give your mom a reality check if it’s true.

Melin_Lavendel_Rosa −  NTA. Its never ok to hijack someone elses party or event. It’s rude and tacky. Letting that ballon fly was funny as hell.

l3ex_G −  Nta. I love it, you stopped them from hijacking your party. Right after she was so rude. Honestly that hilarious.

Token_or_TolkienuPOS −  I need to see the video of you sprinting outside, balloon in hand and the final release unto the clouds….🤣😭😂 At least the angels up there now know what your cousin is having..

CreedTheDawg −  NTA. I wouldn’t want to be around her either.

alicat777777 −  If this was at your mother’s house, and she had decided it was a joint party for birthday and gender reveal, they could have probably gotten away with it. But your mother throwing a party for you at your house is definitely a birthday party.

And since she practically dared you to stop her, it’s pretty funny that you did. NTA.

Clarknt67 −  WTF?! She hijacked your birthday party for a gender reveal?! What an a**hole. Her, not you. You could have handled it better but I can’t say I would fault you.

Sunshine-N-gumdrops −  NTA it was your bday. I can’t stand people that use other people’s events for themselves.

MarginalGreatness −  Has anyone thought about why OP’s mother would invite someone who stole from OP to OP’s home?!?! I would be on the phone to your mother asking what the f*** she thought was going on!!!

Do you think the Redditor overstepped by taking control of the situation, or was it reasonable to protect his birthday party from being overshadowed? How would you handle an uninvited announcement at your celebration? Share your thoughts in the comments below!