A woman on Reddit says she is fuming after her husband didn’t wake her up to watch their children open Christmas presents.
In the post shared to Reddit, the woman writes that she woke up around 8:30 a.m. on Christmas Day, and immediately “heard the kids running around.”
“I knew they would be eager to open their Christmas presents so I got up immediately,” she writes, adding that she often struggles with sleep, so her husband typically lets her sleep in and watches the kids until she wakes up naturally.
Still, she adds, “he knows what time to wake me up if I oversleep.”
But on Christmas, she entered the living room to find “wrapping paper everywhere.”
“All the presents are already unwrapped and the kids (5 and 7) are playing with them. I immediately started crying and walked back into the bedroom where my sadness also turned into anger, and I started screaming like crazy. I am so, so mad,” she writes.
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She continues: “I spent so much time thinking about what to get the kids, ordering it or driving around to find it in the stores, wrapping them and everything, and I feel like I was completely deprived of the joy of seeing their faces when they open their presents, which is one the best parts of Christmas.”
After her husband told her he recorded the kids opening their presents, she writes, “I screamed at him why he either couldn’t make the kids wait, or he could’ve just come and woken me up.”
Her husband has apologized but the woman writes that she is “really hurt” and doesn’t know how to get over it.
Reddit users seem split on the issue, with some questioning why the woman didn’t set an alarm.
Still, others said they understood her frustration.
“Honestly, I totally get why you’d be upset,” wrote one. “You put in so much effort into making Christmas special, and it’s totally normal to want to be part of the magic when your kids open their gifts. Your husband should’ve been more considerate about that. He might’ve thought he was doing the right thing, but it’s not cool to just go ahead without checking in with you, especially on Christmas. Take some time for yourself to process, you’re allowed to be upset about this!”
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