Purchasing birthday gifts for your children can be an expensive experience, so when you finally decide to buy something you know they'll love, the special day can be as exhilarating for you to witness the happiness on their faces as it is for them to unbox their long-awaited present.

However, one mother on Reddit has been ranting and raving after she got to know that her 16-year-old son won't be able to enjoy the games console she bought him for his coming birthday because his father got too excited to open it and unfortunately broke it before he got a chance to. Posting the story without disclosing her name, the mother explained that she had a co-parenting relationship with her ex-husband.

As the mother was going to be out of town and couldn't be a part of his son’s birthday celebration, she handed over the birthday gift to his father in advance. She further told the readers that one day before their son’s birthday, the 36-year-old woman’s former spouse called her and told her that she needed to buy another gift as the games console was fallen into pieces by him while he was using it.

She was in shock when he informed her about it and started to wrangle with him about paying to replace it but he kept on pleading, saying that he had no money. She added that the boy’s dad requested his ex-wife to either send another gift or not to tell their son that she had bought him the console. She told him that there was no way she was going to lie to her son. He didn't stop requesting her and said that he would pay back once he was financially strong.

She hung him up and immediately called her son to let him know what his father did to his birthday gift. All that lead to a huge fight between the duo and her ex-husband called her shouting and saying that she not only spoiled their son’s birthday party but also ruined his relationship with him over a stupid console that he was going to pay for. He also blamed her for being unkind and trying to manipulate him.

She told the users on Reddit that her son then went to stay at her place with her current husband and hasn’t spoken to his dad. His dad criticized her because their son refused to stay and celebrate his birthday with him after finding out what he did. The commentators couldn't digest the dad’s actions- with some suspecting that he might have even sold the console and lied about breaking it.

One person said that it was not fair for him to call the mother immature when he not only stole and broke their son’s gift from her, but asked her to lie about it. While someone else said that it was not possible for someone to accidentally break a console. The father either dropped it, threw it, or sold it.