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Families should feel comfortable in their own homes.
This man realized his wife cared more about Instagram than real life.
She had set up their home to become “aesthetic,” and all corners were Instagram-worthy.
Even their daughter wasn’t allowed to have toys unless they matched the color scheme of the house.
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I left my wife because I’m sick of everything needing to match her “aesthetic”
I know it seems like a dumb thing to end my marriage over.
But after dealing with this for so long I’m finally done.
My wife and I are both in our 30s.
We have a daughter.
This man feels like he lives in an Instagram photo shoot studio.
My wife has always been pretty into appearances, but it was never that bad.
She just wanted things to look nice when people came over.
Then, she started an Instagram page for moms and got a massive amount of followers.
She has about 400 thousand since our daughter was born.
Ever since then, I feel like I don’t live in a house. I live in an Instagram photo shoot.
There can’t be any proof we actually live here.
They argued when he put his drink down on the table, while their daughter took her first steps.
My wife stresses so much about things looking good that she doesn’t actually enjoy the moment.
She started a fight with me right after our daughter took her first steps.
Because I had put my drink down on the table behind her.
She said it’s all she could see and she’d need to edit it out of the video.
She called me a selfish prick for putting my drink down on a coffee table to watch my daughter take her first steps.
His wife refuses to put toys in their daughter’s room that aren’t “aesthetic.”
Our daughter’s bedroom is just a mass of beige and cream.
There are barely any toys in it, which was fine while our daughter was small.
But now she’s getting older.
My wife refuses to buy her any toys that don’t match her “aesthetic.”
Even the dollhouse that his mother picked out for the kid wasn’t allowed to be stored in her room.
My mother took my daughter to the store and let her pick out a toy.
She picked out this dollhouse from a show she watches, and she got all of the dolls and furniture.
My wife told her she had to keep it at my mother’s house because there was no place for it at home.
She absolutely had room for it.
My wife is convinced I’m leaving for another woman, that I’m having an affair, etc.
But I’m not.
He felt like he couldn’t live in their house anymore.
I just can’t keep feeling like I live in a museum where I can’t touch or move anything.
I can’t even build a blanket fort with my kid without my wife flipping out.
Saying that they’re decorative blankets that she folded a special way.
I’m not going to force my daughter to live in an “aesthetic.”
Let’s find out what others have to say about this.
This user shares a similar story.
Here’s a valid point.
This person gives their honest opinion.
Short and straightforward.
And lastly, she destroyed her own marriage, says this one.
A picture-perfect life isn’t worth living if you’re not allowed to actually live in it.
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