Today, I challenged my husband to look after our twins by himself all day, like I normally do. When I got home, both babies had on clean nappies and clothes, dinner was cooked, the house was spotless, and three loads of washing were done. Smug bastard. FML
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Today, I left my husband in charge of the house for a day. When I returned, I saw him gaming through the window, so I stormed in and yelled at him. Then, my eyes adjusted, and I saw the neatly folded laundry, clean kitchen, vacuumed rugs, and my son, who was asleep until I woke him. Whoops. FML
Today, my husband asked what I’d done all day. I took it as a criticism and was about to chew his head off about not appreciating all I do, when I took a look at myself still in pyjamas, the filthy house, dirty plates, and unwashed laundry and realised I’ve done fuck all for weeks. I’m a bad wife. FML
Today, at home, I always do my share of the chores. I just got back from a business trip and it turns out that I actually do ALL the chores. My wife was alone for 9 days, the kitchen was a in state, dirty laundry everywhere, cat litter box overflowing onto the floor, and the bathroom was fucking disgusting. FML
Today, I'm working while my husband is the stay at home parent. The house is spotless, our baby girl is happy, and he's never been happier. When I stayed at home, I could never keep the house tidy, and she cried constantly. How does he do it? No matter how we do it, I'm always the one who's tired and miserable. FML
Today, I asked my SO for help with just the laundry, which translated into him only washing his clothes. We're married with multiple kids, and I currently work 2 jobs. FML
Today, my husband decided he needs to be thanked after every time he changes our daughter's diaper; if not he throws a temper tantrum. Now I have two babies to deal with. FML
Today, we're both working parents. My husband gave a lecture about "mother's duties" and "dad's duties". Why? Because I asked him to get our toddler ready for school and change our son's diaper as I was down with severe COVID. For just one day, I asked him to do a part of my tasks. It's 2022, and I earn more than him. FML
Today, I spent my day alone while my parents and siblings were at school and work. Trying to be helpful, I cleaned out the fridge, did 5 loads of laundry, worked outside, fed the pets, and made dinner for the entire family. The evening was spent hearing complaints about how wrong I did everything. FML
Today, my boyfriend did the washing as an attempt to help me. Not only are all my clothes now pink, he refuses to do the dishes, vacuuming, bathroom, ironing etc., as he has done "plenty." FML
Today, I had an very long day at work. I also had to take my daughter to the dentist and ballet class. Later, my 3 year-old son was having a diarrhoea, needing care, yet I pulled myself up, cooked, fed, read, cleaned the whole house except the kids' bedroom. My brother-in-law came, looked only at that and judged me horribly. FML
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Dave_Davington 35
Gee, I'm sorry to hear that. Still, it's not to late to dump him and find the incompetent deadbeat of your dreams.
julfunky 29
To be fair, having to do that for one day is doable. Having to do it constantly is exhausting.
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Comments (46)
MidnaLink 35
This is what happens when you "challenge" him with that sexist attitude towards dads.
Rabite 28
How is this in any way sexist towards her husband? Sounds like he doesn't do shit on every normal day. If anything in this story is sexist than it's him not doing stuff on an every day basis although he can easily do it, but dropping everything on his wife.
BeardedLondoner 24
No, it doesn't sound like that. You've just assumed that because you're a bitter, piece of shit.
MidnaLink 35
It's the fact she has to "challenge" him in the first place.
DanielleinDC 34
Or maybe he thinks there's nothing to taking care of two kids and take care of everything else in the house, so she challenged him to do it, and he did well. It's like the joke where a man comes home to find his home in utter chaos, kids running around, the dog and cats running around, and his wife calmly reading in bed. He asked what happened, and she says, "You know how you ask me every day what I did? Well, today I didn't do it." He did it one day. Let's see him do it for a week.
TheJawsman 18
Challenged accepted, I suppose.
Rabite 28
Here comes the big applause and appreciation for a man doing his job for one day. Wow! *slow clap* So now that he's shown that he is totally capable of helping, he can go on with doing nothing everyday, right?
BeardedLondoner 24
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Wow what a Bitter ****. Bet he would do a better job than you, every day of the week.
HereNReady 13
She looks after them all day every day by herself, so I'm assuming the entire family is living off the paycheck he earns. Make sure to give him zero credit because he's a man though
jofukurself 8
This comment is even more sexist than the OP's sad excuse of an FML...
Warmonger_Smurf 29
Not that hard. I had 10-14 hours day in the Army. I still also did the vacuuming, sweeping, moping, dishes, cleaning the kitchen, and the bathrooms. All my exwife had to was cook dinner. Granted it was different in that we had no kids and my wife slept till noon then played video games all day. And she still complained that I should cook more.
dexter420 21
If you they clothes on what are nappies? And damn. You suck at what comes natural. Jk i know its hard
WhatHappenedToIt 22
diapers
tonyfan00 38
And you're complaining? Most guys don't even wanna change a dirty diaper!
GhostFox 34
Now tell him to keep doing all that every day for a month and see how often he manages to pull it off to this degree. Chances are, not many.
mandymoo78 22
I bet his mom came over and helped! J/K One day is a piece of cake especially when you’re challenged. Everyday can be difficult!
Lobby_Bee 18
Doesn't sound like a hard fast to achieve, but doing it everyday can be very different. Repetitive tasks can be energy draining.
Lobby_Bee 18
*task
EnvyMe33 26
Your husbands mom must live near by