Today, I came home after ten hours at work to find my unemployed wife and 4 kids sprawled out watching TV waiting for me to get home and cook for them. I had to wash all the dishes first because they didn't feel like getting up or helping. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Same thing different taste
Gimme a break
Today, I came home to pandemonium: the kids screaming, the house a mess, wet laundry, no food made, and my wife in her office. After cleaning, making dinner, putting everything away, and getting the kids to sleep, I grabbed myself a beer. My wife saw it and said, "You're kidding, right?" FML
Today, after a full shift at work, I got home to my boyfriend playing CoD, a full sink, crap all over the table, a full cat box, dirty bathroom, no laundry done and the kids at my parents' house. He yelled at me because the place was a mess. FML
One happy family
Today, I spent hours cooking an amazing dinner for my family, who had just gotten home from a trip, so we could spend some time together because I'd started to miss everyone. When they got home, they saw it all laid out and just took plates to their room, without even telling me they were home. FML
Miserable lie
Today, I have the flu. I had to wash the dishes, cook dinner, take out the trash, and take care of the laundry, all while my wife sat around watching TV, because she was "too tired". I work 8 hours a day. She's a college student. She doesn't see what's so unfair about this. FML
Diddums
Today, due to an emergency, I ended up working for 18 hours instead of 13. I'd texted my unemployed wife to let her know this was unavoidable, but when I got home she blamed me like she thought I planned this in advance, yelled at me, and my dinner was Heinz tomato soup I had to heat up myself. FML
Today, I worked a full day and then went to a three-hour class. I got home at 9 PM, and before the door closed I heard, "There's a sink full of dishes for you." There are three able-bodied men in the house, all of whom got here hours ago and created that sink full of dishes. FML
Get on with it
Today, I got home at 6:30 after a 12-hour shift. I sat down on the sofa, and my wife immediately stomped in and said, "Why are you sitting doing nothing? Get up, there's a million things to do." FML
Quality family time
Today, after a long talk with the kids, I finally got all the chores around the house done early so we could have a fun family weekend. My wife decided to be a wet blanket and insisted we needed to deep clean the already clean kitchen. Three arguments later, everyone is sulking, and I'm working in the kitchen alone. FML
Hangry
Today, I got home at 7 after a long, stressful 12-hour shift. The second I walked through the door, my wife said, "Can you hurry up and make dinner? We're all starving." This happens all the damn time. FML
See ya
Today, I had the day off from work. I did all the chores hoping to free up time to spend with my husband tonight. When he came home, he looked around and decided that since there was no need for him to stick around and help clean, he'd head to the bar to watch the game with the guys. FML
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foolishworkerbee 0
Grow a pair and tell them to take some responsibility.
Spierdalaj 7
Then don't do it until they get off their asses and help :/
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tboudre 0
YDI for not being on board with the Obamanation & working for a living. you should be home watching springer & spending quality time with your wife & kids.
chocolaholic 0
Stop breeding.
nerdsgetmehot 23
Well, then don't let your family walk all over you! You don't HAVE to let them sit on their lazy butts. Make them help. Your kids need to learn these skills early on anyway so they don't end up like your wife...
Cinn_fml 23
Well then, make them get up and help. They'll never learn to do stuff for themselves if they think someone else will always do it for them, or laziness is a good enough excuse to not do something.
Savra_fml 17
so, when you ask what's on the tv, she replies "dust"? after your 10hr shift go eat at a restaurant before you go home. but seriously, if you let her get this way by being a pussy YDI. show her where the door is and get yourself a real woman if she wont straighten up
dabluedude101 0
divorce the lazy bitch and tell her to keep the lazy kids. buy a new mustang and find some fine young piece with proper cooking and cleaning skillz.
fnyunj 3
Next time, come home with empty fast-food wrappers, toss them in her lap, and ask her to throw them in the garbage for you. I get all the "taking care of kids is hard work" comments. It *IS* when you're trying to NOT do it. Or if you're in that position and don't want to be. Though, if you wanted to be a mother, taking care of kids is your joy. It's what you live for. But it can also be NOT hard work. It's the easiest work to skip out on. A *lot* of stay-at-home moms do it. It's child abuse, no mistake about that. But nobody really talks about it. Let the kids run wild. Pop-tarts for breakfast. Older kids babysit the younger ones. Plop them in front of the boob tube. Pack them off to day care or school. Mom sits on her prozac-popping fat butt all day watching jerry springer, complains about how tired and overwhelmed she always feels. Maybe boinks the unemployed drunk neighbor guy, because it's the only thing that makes her feel worthwhile as a person. Face it. If a mom doesn't do her job, who's going to call her on it? The kids? Any dads, in THIS culture? Criticizing a mom is tantamount to wife-beating. Look at all the ppl who jumped down this poor guys throat. The dad has a boss, at work to answer to. A bank, to whom he owes money for house and car payments. The mom? Only her own guilt - if that. Addiction is fed by denial. And emotional abuse victims are enablers, and keep their mouths shut, because they know what's good for them. (and those kids keep their mouths shut too). The stress and responsibility is ALL on the dad. The notion that the housewife has it harder is a MYTH. Oh - I know housewives who *do* the job. They put in the effort, iron the shirts, cook the meals, mop the floors, change the diapers. When they self-motivate; and honestly do the work, of course that's hard-core, and deserving of respect. But that seems to be the exception more than the rule these days. Mommy needs a day off? Break out the xanax and the wine, put the kids up behind the playroom gate, crank up the TV. As far as making the kids help - you can't do that by yourself. If their mom wont help set a good example, guess who becomes "the bad guy"? You can try. You'll see what I mean. What you need to do is get YOURSELF to a good therapist, and talk about what's going on in your family. Your therapist will give you strategies on how to stop enabling your wife in her CHILD ABUSE, (and spousal abuse). End your wife's parasitic lifestyle, and the horrible example she is setting for your kids (and the terrible future she is dooming them to).
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
Whoa, so because she was watching tv with her kids and didn't have things perfect one time (that's all we know for sure-- that it happened ONCE) when the husband came home, she's a pill-popping, wine-swilling, neglectful and emotionally abusive fatass, and the whole family's codependent?! Projection much?
icertainlysuck 0
this is the truest and funniest comment ever on FML
Sharfin 0
Lazy Bi1ch, bet she's all fat too, you can come and cook for me baby, I'll sit on the counter in my bikini and feed you ice cream after a hard day at work.
some_girl9 8
I feel for you dude, but in this context, your username is a bit disturbing. JK ;-P
youthink_fml 0
Grab some dinner on your way home. **** them.