If you have trouble sleeping at night, sometimes the best thing to do is to just get up and find something to pass the time.

That’s exactly what the woman in today’s story does, but her fiancé criticized the way she spends her time.

She decided to take his advice to show him why his suggestion wasn’t the best idea after all.

Let’s see how the story plays out…

I need to get my priorities straight

A little background.

I (29F) own a home with my fiancé (30M) and we split expenses and housework 50/50.

I like to think we contribute equally to the household, but one area we differ in is our work schedules, and I am a night owl/have insomnia.

He works the typical 9-5 and I bartend during the evenings four nights a week with one morning brunch shift.

She has trouble sleeping and is often awake at night.

My sleep schedule is very wonky and lately it has been sleeping from about 9/10-2 and a sleepless night or two per week(before you judge, we have no kids and this works for me.)

I do my best to stay quiet and want to get things done while I’m awake at night, but don’t want to wake him up.

Now to the malicious compliance.

Her fiancé thinks she should use her time differently when she’s awake at night.

One day this week we spent the evening tidying up the house together, and I thought we both contributed equally and all was well and good.

But there were so many dishes that there were some piled up in the sink after we loaded the dishwasher and then they continued to pile up again(this is also a constant issue for us, as he also tends to leave dishes in the sink even when the dishwasher has plenty of space.)

Last night I had a sleepless night and I spent it quietly in the living room working on a paint by numbers.

Tonight I came home and was told, “your painting looks good, but you really need to get your priorities straight” and mentioned the dishes in the sink.

The next time, she did the dishes.

Now this really made me mad, because most of the dishes were his, I am his partner not his maid, and I had shoveled our enormous driveway the night prior.

I decided he was right.

So at 4 in the morning I went to the kitchen and did all the dishes.

Loudly.

Doing the dishes was the perfect revenge.

He came to the kitchen and asked me what I was doing.

I told him that I was getting my priorities straight and doing the dishes like he asked.

That’s a funny story.

I bet her fiancé regretted asking her to do the dishes while he’s sleeping.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted…

Here’s another way to think about splitting up chores…

Fewer dishes might be the answer.

Here’s how one reader gets revenge on her husband…

This reader expected her fiancé to consider something else a top priority…

She really should try to focus on getting more sleep at night.

It can’t be healthy to get that little sleep.

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.