A woman has revealed the moment she snapped at her husband‘s lazy behaviour – but now worries she might be in the wrong.
Taking to Reddit, the unnamed woman said she reached the end of her tether with him after he refused to find a job after being unemployed for several years, wouldn’t his smoking habit, and constantly wore his boxers around the house – even when the couple had company.
She wrote: “The last straw for me came just a few days ago. My parents came to visit us for a couple of weeks. The eight of us were supposed to have a family meal together.
“I asked him to put some clothes on out of respect for both our parents, but he refused and chose to remain in boxers. I also told him to cut down on smoking while my parents were staying over because both of them are asthmatic.”
To her disbelief, her husband not only refused, but even lit up a cigarette at the dinner table – causing her asthmatic mother to have a coughing fit. When her mother asked him to wait until after dinner to smoke after dinner, he told her to “shut the f**k up.”
“I was extremely fed up at this point and scolded him in front of everyone, telling him off about all the pointers I listed earlier,” she admitted. The incident has left their marriage on the rocks with her errant spouse barely speaking to her since the incident other than to request money.
She asked: “Was I too harsh on him? Am I in the wrong for scolding him in front of everyone else?”
Many people online were on her side after her husband “scolded her mother with profanity”. One wrote: “I know you said you love your husband, but living with him just sounds so awful. One of the best life lessons I received from a psychologist was that love is actually not a feeling it’s an action. How is he showing love to you and your family?”
Another chimed in: “Sounds like he has no redeeming qualities,” while a third added: “It’s actually mind-blowing. This guy is repulsive and a waste of space, how is someone’s self-esteem so low that they can’t see this dude is just a dead weight they’d be better off without?”
