A woman who canceled plans for her anniversary after her husband accidentally destroyed his cherished terrarium said a fellow Reddit user said she was completely within her right to do so.
“AITA canceled our anniversary trip because my husband submerged my terrarium?” Posted on Reddit’s “Am I the A–hole” (AITA) subreddit on January 31, 2024 So, I asked Reddit user “Tiny-Pen-2289”.
In the post, Tiny-Pen-2289 said she was a 29-year-old woman who had recently traveled across the country to visit a company that offered her a job.
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“I spent two days touring the company to determine if it was a good fit for me after years of being self-employed.After meeting with the company, I visited my sister (32F) and her family, who lived a few towns away. “I visited him,” the woman said. she said, adding that she doesn’t see her sister much.
Tiny Pen-2289 was missing for eight days before returning home to discover that her husband had destroyed one of her prized possessions.
A woman writes that her husband overwatered his terrarium (not pictured), causing most of the plants to die. Then she canceled her trip for her anniversary. “She was always so healthy and beautiful,” she said of her “pride and joy.” (St. Petersburg)
“I have a very large enclosed bioactive terrarium that I made with my mom 15 years ago. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve had since before my mom passed away,” the woman wrote.
She said the terrarium is her “pride and joy.”
“She was always so healthy and beautiful,” she added. “I’ve only opened it four times for minor maintenance and watering.” She thought her husband understood that.
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Instead, on the day she left for her trip, she discovered that her husband had “poured several glasses of water into the container and resealed it” in her absence.
“The roots were rotting and the plants were dying and growing mold,” she said.
“I got angry and cried and we had a big argument because ‘it’s just a plant’ and ‘we’re just going to look at it’.”
The woman said her husband called her “ungrateful and overbearing” and claimed he was just trying to help and didn’t want to cause any trouble during the trip.
“I got angry and cried and we had a big argument because ‘it’s just a plant’ and ‘we’re just going to look at it’.”
Tiny-Pen-2289 wrote that after returning from her trip, she and her husband planned a luxury train trip to celebrate their wedding anniversary, and that her husband is a “huge train fan.”
The woman said her husband had not contacted her since they canceled their anniversary trip and was sleeping in another room. She did not say whether he apologized for destroying her terrarium. (St. Petersburg)
“We ended up canceling our anniversary plans, partly because I was so upset and didn’t want to go, and partly because I wanted to retrieve the plants and that would take time.” she said.
She said her husband “hit the roof when I told him to,” but now refuses to speak to her and sleeps in another bedroom.
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“He says I’m narrow-minded and trying to destroy our marriage,” Tiny Pen-2289 said.
She asked others, “Am I being sensitive about my plants?”
She wrote that her friends were “pretty much on the same page” about the situation, and that she hoped Reddit users would weigh in on the drama.
A woman asked social media users for help, saying her friends were “almost evenly divided” on whether canceling her anniversary trip was the right thing to do. (St. Petersburg)
Fox News Digital has reached out to Tiny-Pen-2289 and family therapists for additional comment and updates.
In the AITA subreddit, users can reply to posts and post comments such as “NTA” (“not an A–hole”), “YTA” (“you are an A–hole”), “NAH” (” ”). There’s no “A-holes Here”) or “ESH” (“Everyone Sucks Here”).
Users can “upvote” comments they find helpful and “downvote” comments they find unhelpful.
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About 4,000 people responded to Tiny-Pen-2289’s post, most of whom said she was an “NTA” and were confused by her decision to cancel her anniversary trip.
Many Reddit users expressed doubts about her husband’s intentions to “help.”
“NTA — and I doubt your husband was trying to help,” Reddit user “deathandtaxes2023” said in the top upvoted comment.
Many even warned women that their husbands might be abusive. (St. Petersburg)
“First, if you’ve only opened it a few times, he knows watering isn’t that frequent. Second, he knows how much it means to you.” I am. [he] should [have] I knew you would have taken care of it before you went or left very detailed instructions,” deathandtaxes2023 said.
The commenter also noted that the amount of water added was likely too much for the terrarium, “even if he was just helping.”
“The ‘just looking at it’ comment is also weird. That’s what everyone does to their plants,” deathandtaxes2023 said.
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Others took a more harsh view of her husband’s intentions.
“He didn’t forget. He maliciously killed the one you love. NTA,” one Reddit user said.
“He viciously killed the one you love.”
“Yeah, agreed – he did this on purpose to kill something. [you] I love it,” said Reddit user “Kitchen_Victory_7964.”
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The commenter also warned Tiny-Pen-2289 that her husband “might enjoy being abusive or trying to break you up.”
He “isn’t going to value you,” Kitchen_Victory_7964 said.
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