{"id":4750,"date":"2025-07-22T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:50:19","slug":"i-thought-our-anniversary-dinner-would-be-a-proposal-but-my-boyfriend-ended-up-embarrassing-me-in-the-worst-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4750","title":{"rendered":"I Thought Our Anniversary Dinner Would Be a Proposal \u2013 But My Boyfriend Ended Up Embarrassing Me in the Worst Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My boyfriend Ryan, 29 like me, surprised me on our third anniversary by celebrating a promotion I <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> get\u2014complete with a cake that read \u201cCongrats on Your Promotion!\u201d\u2014instead of proposing. He meant it as a pick-me-up, but publicly announcing something I hadn\u2019t achieved felt humiliating, not supportive. I paid my share and left.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, after ignoring his texts, I threw my own \u201ccelebration\u201d for him: black-and-gold balloons, a cake reading \u201cCongrats on Becoming Bald! Manifesting It Early!\u201d His friends laughed and one called him out for being cruel. Ryan stormed off, saying it was over.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, one of his friends, Zach, stayed and praised me: \u201cThat was one of the best comebacks I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d He even asked me out, joking, \u201cDepends\u2014you gonna throw a party if <em>I<\/em> go bald?\u201d I laughed and replied, \u201cOnly if you deserve it.\u201d Finally, I felt like I had the last word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>My boyfriend Ryan, 29 like me, surprised me on our third anniversary by celebrating a promotion I didn&#8217;t get\u2014complete with a cake that read \u201cCongrats <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4750\" title=\"I Thought Our Anniversary Dinner Would Be a Proposal \u2013 But My Boyfriend Ended Up Embarrassing Me in the Worst Way\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}