A wife has been left furious after her husband woke her up at 11 pm to reheat his dinner as he wanted her to do every single task in the house.
The mother-of-two took to Reddit and explained that her husband is often exhausted because he works as an ambulance driver.
“I’m a stay-at-home-mum with 2 kids. My husband is an ambulance driver, he works odd hours and comes home unexpectedly. He expects dinner or lunch ready whenever he gets home, whether I’m sleeping or busy with the kids. It’s exhausting but do it because I know how hard he works,” she wrote.
“After struggling with this for a while, my mum suggested that I start pre-making meals so that dinner or lunch can be ready when he’s home, and all he’s gotta do is just reheat it,” the wife continued.
“I immediately got to it and went grocery shopping and spent an entire two days making meals and storing them in the fridge.
“His response to this idea is ‘whatever’. I was sort of relieved cause now I could sleep properly and the kids’ care won’t get interrupted.”
“Well, at 11 pm last night, he comes home while I’m sleeping after putting the baby to sleep. I wake up to him shouting for me from the living room. I rush out and ask what was happening and he tells me he’s hungry and wants dinner. I tell him it’s in the fridge and just needs to be reheated and he didn’t have to wake me up for it.
“He tells me I need to go reheat it for him. I say no, not happening and he needs to reheat his own dinner. He starts laughing sarcastically which got me mad. He then tells me I’m ridiculous to assume that after working no stop for an entire shift that he should be ‘expected’ to do a chore aka reheat dinner himself when I’m here and I can do it.
“I start arguing with him after he complains I’m not doing enough and refuse to reheat it then I go back inside the bedroom and shut the door.”
Her husband then told her that he was “going to bed hungry” as he didn’t want to reheat his dinner.
“He comes an hour later yelling about how I’ve basically made him almost pass out from hunger just cause I’m petty trying to prove a point, I tell him he’s being unreasonable to expect me to reheat his dinner when he could do it himself.”
People on Reddit were quick to share their thoughts, with one person writing: “Reheating your own food after work is called being an adult. Would he collapse from hunger and die if he was single? What did he do before you? Did you come along and save him from starvation?”
Another wrote: “What kind of person can’t reheat their own dinner? It sounds like you’re raising three kids.”
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