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It’s easy to take the little things for granted when someone does them every day.
This woman spends many mornings cooking breakfast for her husband and helping him start his day.
After all, he’s a firefighter with an unusual schedule, and she knows getting him up and moving isn’t always easy.
Unfortunately, her husband doesn’t seem nearly as impressed as most people would be. Instead of appreciating the effort, he often finds something to criticize.
Normally she takes it in stride and moves on. But that’s getting harder and harder, especially after his most recent comment.
Read on to see what she’s been dealing with.
AITAH for not cooking my husband breakfast anymore?
75% of the time, I have to wake him up with breakfast. Otherwise, he sleeps half the day. He’s a firefighter, so he has weird hours to begin with.
It’s the only way to get him out of bed and moving. Instead of being grateful and thankful for not having to be an adult for the first 45 minutes of the day like the rest of us, he criticizes whatever I make if it’s not PERFECT, and I mean PERFECT.
So after this morning’s comment of, “The eggs are dry. Why do you overcook your eggs?” I just had enough.
She’s just so fed up with all of it.
I don’t have anyone cooking for me or waking me up with princess treatment, so I said, “You can cook your breakfast from now on. You’re acting like a spoiled brat.”
He says he’s allowed to have an opinion if he’s being served “dog ****.”
He didn’t eat the eggs, took one bite of the homemade apple turnover, threw it all away, and microwaved a Jimmy Dean biscuit. Mind you, I’m an excellent cook. Legitimately. Yesterday’s breakfast was sausage, eggs, and Bananas Foster homemade buttermilk pancakes (even the buttermilk AND butter were homemade). I’m so fed up.
AITA?
Yikes! There’s no wonder she’s tired of dealing with that.
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Let’s see what the fine folks over at Reddit think about her husband’s attitude.
This woman had an ex say something along those lines.
Here’s someone who doesn’t think she should cook.
Yet another person who would refuse to cook for him.
It sounds like he might be.
Yikes. Her husband sounds terrible!
This woman gets out of bed and makes him breakfast because she cares about him, and he responds by picking apart the meal and calling it names.
Sure, nobody expects him to pretend every meal is perfect. However, most adults know how to show a little gratitude when someone goes out of their way to do something nice for them.
She absolutely needs to stop cooking for him. And he’ll probably start missing those breakfasts a lot sooner than he thinks.
More importantly, she shouldn’t put up with someone treating her this way when she’s only trying to help.
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