If you were asked to name a time you had your expectations let down, what was it? Were you in the right, looking back?

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My earliest memory of having my expectations let down, was my birthday party was at chuck e cheese. I technically said I want to be at Chuck e cheese on my birthday, but not that i wanted the birthday party "package" at Chuck e cheese. this is an important detail, because if you have your birthday party at chuck e cheese, the staff will not allow you to leave the stage. you have to sing and dance with chuckie and cut the cake and open gifts etc. when there is a whole room of games you want to play and tickets to win for prizes. it basically means to a kids mind, I will have as much time and tokens as i want and to go wild and hopefully win a big prize cause i would have played so much to afford it. but when i was turning 9, and those bitches kept dragging my ass back to the stage, I was in tears, what was the point to be there other than to play games. in hindsight, no one understood me, and at 16, for even-Ness, I had my party at chuck e cheeses, with friends and the whole nine yards. my ass was again, at the stage, but I'm about to turn 16, and being with my guests was fun to me, also cause I invited all my friends, my 9 year old party, everyone was an adult, and they all sat down and watched but didn't engage in anything. so i was able to understand and not be so eager to play games, my friends however got to go crazy, which was fine for me, but imagine if I did have friends and they all got to play without me, how miserable. but I don't understand how this is even possible, because everyone under 10 has their party at chuck e cheeses, and they will not be mature enough to entertain guests and stay put, so I really don't know how this was supposed to go, other than my parents shouldn't have paid for a party package the first time. and actually every birthday when I had an idea and I told someone, it usually was all twisted, and for me in my opinion, it was a simple concept that got over complicated. so what about you?

Telekinetic-Potato · Accepted Answer

My ex cheating on me was one, her breaking up with the guy she left me for a week later was kinda two. I was kinda figuring I could at least take comfort in thinking she found some incredible dude but after that she dated a pill head.

Called me from a rehab months later on Thanksgiving and I could hear in her voice she wasn't being genuine when she was "apologizing" having known people who went through that process, I knew she was just playing a role in front of someone so they would let her leave.

I cried for both of us. She had really changed, I was really stupid.

When she called from a rehab and told me that she was working on herself and she named everything I thought she was previously blind to, I was so happy for her. My expectation was that we suffered through all this for a good reason.

But it was just setting me up for more pain.

Andres77 · Accepted Answer

Catching my cheating wife in the act and being too much of a fool to do anything about it. Yet. It got worse and I had to step up.
Long time ago, more failures followed and lots of stupid mistakes by me but my wife pulled me out of that cycle.
All good for 18+ years now.