Hey, these kinds of things happen when you don’t hold up your end of the bargain…

Two people agree on a trade, but then one person changes their mind so much so that the other person wants to cancel the deal all together.

You’ll see what I mean in just a minute when you dive into this story from Reddit where a husband and wife have both changed their minds about a deal they made.

Let’s read all the details!

AITA for taking back my MacBook from my wife?

“When I left my previous job, to my shock they let me keep my work laptop, a beast of a MacBook Pro.

I, however, don’t need a laptop daily and so I proposed a trade with my wife: her old Thinkpad (about 5 years old) for a 1 year old MacBook Pro spec’d to heaven and back.

This was especially driven by the fact she wanted something she could use Adobe and Autodesk on without each action taking forever.

The problem is this, she’s sentimental about the Thinkpad, moreover she required time to move stuff like important documents and passwords over.

He wasn’t agreeing to let her keep both laptops.

I “lent” her the MacBook for two weeks to decide if she wanted it and she very obviously did.

That was 7 months ago… and she still has both laptops, leaving me with none.

Fast-forward to today, we got in a heated discussion and the takeaway is this: she wants both, her Thinkpad to take about with her (despite her not needing to at all), and the MacBook as a sudo desktop.

He made another suggestion.

Her argument was that I already have a new work laptop, a gigantic Dell mobile workstation that weighs about 5kg, isn’t portable, and is loaded with monitoring software.

This actually does impede me as I often need to travel about doing presentations and such, something I’d happily do on a much lighter weight personal device as it wouldn’t require any of the tightly locked down monitoring software.

In the end, I said I would just take back my MacBook, she rarely (if ever) uses it enough to warrant its superior power versus her old one, and I don’t believe she’s even got the majority (if any) of her documents or passwords transferred to it.

Is this a jerk move?”

He wanted to trade laptops not let his wife keep both.

Let’s see what folks had to say on Reddit.

This reader didn’t hold back.

Another person said he’s NTA.

This Reddit user agreed.

Another person weighed in.

And this reader spoke up.

She wasn’t playing fair, so he did what he had to do.

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.