Husband slammed for leaving wife alone on New Year’s Eve

For many people, New Year’s Eve is a time to celebrate with family and friends. Marking the end of one year and the start of another alongside the people we love and cherish the most is a meaningful way to celebrate the occasion. But one woman caused outrage when she revealed her plans for New Year’s Eve had fallen through – and her husband was planning on going out with his friends anyway, leaving her at home alone.

Posting to Reddit, she wrote: “Hi, I’m 25 year old woman, and my friends cancelled on me, and my husband is going out with his friends and I’m not invited. What could I do, or where could I go by myself to still have good time?”

In a later comment she added she had been left “quite sad and upset” that her husband was going out without her. Reddit users were quick to condemn the man for leaving his wife at home alone on New Year’s Eve.

One replied: “I would have a night in with my favourite snacks and wine, a film, and the lights turned right down. However… if my partner’s plans fell through I wouldn’t leave them alone because they weren’t invited somewhere. That sounds like something a 14-year-old would do.”

Another wrote: “That’s your wife. Invite her. Jesus. And if your bros aren’t okay with that, then maybe you’ve outgrown them honestly. Boys nights are fine, but when it’s a big event like New Year’s Eve when EVERYONE is celebrating, then it’s weird to exclude people’s spouses.”

And commenters were even more appalled when the woman revealed what her husband’s plans involved. Replying to someone asking for more information she said: “They are just going to pub with his friend group, the closest Wetherspoons.” Replying to this, one person said: “He’s leaving you alone to go to a f****** Spoons? That’s actually horrific.”

Someone else, who said they had “spent the entirety of my adult life” with their wife, said: “If her plans fell through, she’d get an invite with me and the boys because I can guarantee they’d have no issue with it, and, to be honest, I’d get a scalding off them if they found out I left her at home on her own on New Year’s Eve, and rightly so.”

And another wrote: “No chance I’d leave my wife either. I may well be disappointed at losing a night out with my bros, but my wife’s my life anchor. Much more important.”

However, another came to the defence of the woman’s husband. They wrote: “But they originally had separate NYE plans anyway. I think it’s a bit much to ask someone to cancel their plans the day before just because you suddenly find yourself with nothing to do. If it was so important to spend the evening together why not plan that in the first place?”

A different user presented another view. They said: “If they wanted to spend NY together then surely they would have planned that in the first place? It’s ok for him to cancel with his friends and spend it with his wife if that’s what they both want. However, if his friends had arranged a ‘no partners night out’ then it’s not a single person’s decision to invite one partner because they got cancelled.

“Surely it would be a group decision if the question was asked? It doesn’t mean he is a bad person for going out with his friends so as not to let them down, as long as his wife is ok with it, which she may be. Nor does it make his friends bad if they don’t want one partner to go on no partners night out. Also, she may well be very happy to have the night off and have a quiet one, I would be.”

Another said simply: “Going out on NYE is s**** anyway, stay in, have a booze and an Indian and a movie is my advice.”