By Exciting_Day_2610 • Score: 8 • April 20, 2025 9:45 AM
I (27M) work most of the day, around 52 hours a week (not including the extra shifts I take) I have a full time job and a part time gig at Home Depot. After my long day at both jobs I basically do nothing at home, I eat dinner then go to sleep. My wife (24F) does not work (hence my two jobs) and does the house work, recently she has been complaining about how little I do at home, saying how tired she is and how much she does for me that I don't realize, naturally I asked how I could help. She then decided to berate me on how I wouldn't be able to do all the things she did on a daily basis so there is no point in even trying. That night I decided to stay up and do all that I could to suprise her in the morning, I did the dishes, cleaned the counter, swept and mopped, the whole nine yards. I even made breakfast and brought it to her in bed before I went to work. I expected her to be happy, she wasn't, in fact she was upset with me, saying how it's too little too late and how this doesn't make up for all the times I didn't help out. (Reddit, let me tell you about myself. I am competitive and when someone challenges me I do NOT give up) I hatched a plan, from now on I was going to be the PERFECT husband, I would go to work by day, but be a cleaning machine by night, doing all that I can before I inevitably lose energy and pass out on the couch. I kept this up for a month, getting only around 4 hours of sleep a night, I subsisted off of coffee, monster, and beer. I cooked for myself everyday, I made sure every surface was SPOTLESS. laundry? Done. Garbage? Already got a new bag in. Dishes? Do you even need to ask? I did it all. After a month of my cleaning fury my wife pulled me aside. At first I thought she was going to commemorate me, thanking me for how easy her life was now. (It may have gotten to my head a bit but that's not the point) but no, she started crying. She said how I "always have to act like I'm better than her" and how "I'm trying to make her feel useless" she won't talk to me now and I have to wonder, am I the asshole?
(Edit) after seeing a few replies I think it would be smart to say that I already have apologized for not helping out, although I'm not going to pretend I didn't want to prove her wrong, I also wanted to ease her load, I love my wife and when I learned that she was getting overwhelmed I may have gone a bit overboard with trying to help, after I'm done with tonight's cleaning I'm going to apologize.
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