It’s funny how the loudest critics are usually the ones with the least to show for themselves.

What would you do if a family member mocked your life choices, even though your partner fully supports you and your situation works?

Would you ignore them and go on about your business?

Or would you remind them that stability isn’t just about clocking in somewhere?

In the following story, one man deals with this exact situation and decides he’s had enough.

Here’s how it all went down.

AITA for telling my brother that regardless of my current employment I’m the only one who HAS help a stable job.

So back in 2020 I got hit by a car on my bike while riding to work and had some medical issues for a while.

During this time my then girlfriend now wife more or less told me to stop working because I was in a lot of pain and sitting for 8 hours was really not helping that.

I had intended to return to work once everything was better, but by the time I was better, my wife just said that having me at home when she got back from her job with a clean house and an actual warm meal was amazing.

Ultimately, she made more than enough to support both of us (she is a higher-level manager at a corporate job).

I never really enjoyed my job, and so I agreed after a few long talks.

Out of nowhere, his brother started picking on him at dinner.

So that’s how my life has been since.

I’m a good cook, so I make something she wants, and other than that, I do the basics to make sure there isn’t a big mess.

My brother, on the other hand, has pretty much always bounced around low income jobs and can’t hold down even the most basic of employment for more than a year.

He’s been working at the same place for around 6 months now, and recently we (my wife, parents, brother, sister, and I) were having dinner at my parents’ house for my mom’s birthday.

During this dinner my brother started making fun of me for being unemployed and sitting around the house all day being a “housewife” and other generally childish insults.

Things got out of hand pretty quickly.

I ignored him for a while until my mom told him off.

He told her to mind her business.

Once he insulted her, all bets were off, and I was done trying to make it a nice birthday for her.

I just brought up how he hasn’t had a job for more than a year, while I worked at my last job for 4 years before getting hit by a car.

He got really angry and told me I was a lazy person (not his words) who sat around all day while getting waited on by his wife (not his words) and then stormed out, calling me a jerk.

Dad and Wife are on my side, Mom is just annoyed her party was ruined and Sister doesn’t want to touch the situation with a 20 foot pole.

AITA?

Wow! That must’ve been pretty awkward for the others.

Let’s see what the people over at Reddit have to say about it.

Everyone should follow this advice.

This is a good point.

According to this comment, the brother should not be so rude.

This very well could be.

He needs to get over it.

Obviously, he’s just jealous that he’s not a stay-at-home husband and acted out of line.

If you enjoyed that story, read this one about a mom who was forced to bring her three kids with her to apply for government benefits, but ended up getting the job of her dreams.