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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Comments (175)
Stotan1228 0
The hell with those lazy little bastards. Tell your wife that when she starts paying the bills then you'll cook for her and tell your kids either they start doing shit or you'll kick them out and make them live like Oliver Twist. Gotta have discipline man, be a patriarch. "She sits on her ass, he works his hands to the bone, to give her money every payday. But she wants more deniro just to stay at home; well my friend, you gotta say: I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no wayyy. Na na why don't you get a job?" - The Offspring, "Why Don't You Get A Job?"
Javelin_fml 0
Sexist much??! Marriage is supposed to be about partnership and working together... Yes, you work, but have you tried cleaning the entire house by yourself and still cooking supper, helping with homework, fetching kids, etc.?
Viscount 0
Way to assume.
Cinn_fml 23
@Javelin - How is it sexist? The wife is unemployed, yes she has the kids to take care of, but she's the one at home all day and therefore you'd think she could do something to help. Technically their marriage would be about partnership and working together, he earns the money and she takes care of the house, depending on the size and the house and the age of the kids he might be expected to help a little...
rockefoe 6
Wow. You totally deserved it for being a bitch. Make some f***ing rules and enforce them.
lifesucks51 0
shove her out and lock the doors until she gets a job that'll show'er
hedgehogs 0
We teach other people how to treat us. You need to take a stand here and stick with it.
Nappytime 0
@146 It takes about an hour a day to make the house spotless and thirty minutes to cook. Assuming you spent 6 hours a day on the kids, which is unrealisticly high, you would still be spending less time then him if you cooked dinner.
dont4getlove 0
Ok, so that majorly sucks, obviously. but if you were just gonna complain online to a bunch of strangers instead of just confronting them what was the point?
boltman24 0
tell that woman to get her ass to kitchen and do it, then make you a sandwich.
tisiphone_fml 0
OP, you really need to assert yourself and put a foot down. It sounds like your family is walking all over you, and you're a good-hearted dad, so you take it. Marriage has to be 50/50 - whether one of both spouses work or do housework, it has to balance out. This doesn't mean you need to be abusive. But I think that you need to confront your wife with how you feel instead of strangers on FML, and be more assertive with your kids, depending on their ages. If grounding without phone and internet doesn't work, threat of military school is always a good one... Trust me, I have family members who were raised to act like that. They are not successful adults, now...
choosemusic 0
be assertive, be, be asser- or just go to bed and sneak out and go to wendy's or something while they starve. mhmm.