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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 34
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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Miss_080 21
Maybe he got a helping hand? If not, well done to him. But then again, doing that day in and day out is a different story
Harm Varwijk 17
we go to work every day! wtf....
Maleficus_fml 12
sorry he's a good man you self centered pos
BeardedLondoner 24
Lol at all the women on this, trying to downgrade what the guy done. You sexist assholes complain about equality and yet complain when a man does a better job than you. How about you give the guy his dues and shut up. How do you guys know that he does nothing all day? That's a piece of shit attitude. I'm a little annoyed at the Op but more annoyed at the stupidity of the people commenting shit like "bet he couldn't do it for a month"? What happens if he did, Would you challenge him to a year? You bitter women are a scourge on society, the same ones that moan about equality and feminism, yet wait around like a pack of vultures ready to pick apart any man that says or does anything that they are 'offended' or 'threatened' by. **** you's all around for every ********, that tries to trivialise what he did because he's a man. Had this been a woman she'd have been called a praised a domestic goddess and all that shit. Seems to me, since she considers this an FML, she's the one that can't keep up, maybe she should ask him for tips instead of resenting him for doing a better job than her.
Cinn_fml 23
"to look after our twins BY HIMSELF all day, LIKE I NORMALLY DO". (sorry for the caps, I can't find a bold or italic option) That might be the clue that he doesn't normally help with the kids. I would also suggest that the fact that she had to issue it as a challenge, is that she was trying to prove that that work is more exhausting than it sounds on paper. Also she might just have put it down as an FML for a bit of a joke rather than being deadly serious that her husband can actually help. And your point about a woman being called a domestic goddess if she did what the husband did - that might actually be part of the problem. Generally speaking the purported image of motherhood is coping with ease with the children, the chores, the dinner. Rather than being honest that it's tough and you're not a failure if you find it difficult, and that message opens up both genders to being realist rather than men assuming the woman's got it under control and the woman not wanting to nag for help. Yes, people are becoming better at talking about the realities and I'm generalising and not everyone is like that, but there's still conversations to be had about the division of "unpaid work".
Harm Varwijk 17
indeed. and then they say it's a different story when we need to do this every day. I wish we could!! we have to work for a boss everyday.... we man are always losing when it's about things like this
core01 30
As IF only men work... "According to 2016 U.S. Census Bureau, out of about 12 million single parent families with children under the age of 18, more than 80% were headed by single mothers."
GhostFox 34
No one is minimizing what the husband did, let alone because he's a man. They're pointing out that it's a hard job, AND gets harder the longer you have to do it. And considering that the husband wouldn't have spent the last nine months pregnant, and have either squeezed two babies out or have been cut open to remove them- the latter of which can take months to fully heal, and up to a year and a half to fully recondition the muscles- and dealing with hormone changes that cause fatigue for months after pregnancy, yeah, biologically speaking, the husband DID have it easier. Especially only doing it for one day after an unknown period of leaving OP to do it by herself everyday, which leads to social isolation that has been proven to cause degeneration in physical and mental state. That the husband *can* do it, isn't the problem. The problem is that he can do it and hasn't been, which implies that he feels no sense of responsibility toward the household or the children.
Yudith 28
Good for you! Now make him do it one day out of two.
davecross 11
Now he can be mr mom and you can find a full time job if you don't already have one
Hippo_Holiday 19
Them comments be poppin
Cali 57
For real, dude. So many strong feelings!
Mungolikecandy 19
If you challenge someone and they succeed surely that is not a loss? Doing it for one day is more achievable then doing it every day though.
azouwa 26
He deserves breakfast in bed and a bj.
GhostFox 34
For doing the same thing that OP does on a day to day basis? Uh, no. It means that he needs to put in some more work around the house the other 364 days of the year.
pro_panda_ganda 10
Are American women possible to please at all these days?
WeirdUS 30
Sounds like he might not be pulling his weight regularly and is now pretty smug about it because he did it once if that’s the attitude he has I feel bad for her