Husband is blasted for insisting that he is 'basically' just as pregnant as his wife because he works longer hours - before admitting he plays video games while she makes dinner AND watches their three other kids
- A 27-year-old man complained about his 29-year-old wife on Reddit
- They're expecting their fourth child and he argued that he is basically pregnant
- Said his job requires longer hours, plus he is woken up when she gets up to vomit in the middle of the night
- He is getting 'impatient' with her demands to run out for snacks or set up a bath for her swollen feet
- The man insists on spending an hour playing video games every day
- When his wife asked him to watch the kids while she cooked dinner, he complained about the food she was cooking
A man who is expecting his fourth child has insisted that he's 'basically' just as much pregnant as his wife, since he works longer hours than she does — and he's getting 'impatient' with her requests for support.
The 27-year-old dad took to Reddit to complain about his 29-year-old wife, griping that she's making too many demands of him — including that he stop playing video games for an hour a day and watch their three kids while she cooks dinner.
When he looked to Redditors to back him up, they pounced, calling him selfish, inconsiderate, and a 'major a**hole.'
Yikes! A man who is expecting his fourth child has insisted that he's 'basically' just as much pregnant as his wife, since he works longer hours than she does (stock image)
The man started his post off by complaining that every one of his wife's pregnancies has been a 'nightmare.'
'Some things I can deal with, like waking up to the sound of her puking her guts out every morning,' he wrote.
'But when she starts demanding I go to the store every day to get her snacks or set up her foot bath thingy because her feet are swollen, I get a little impatient,' he went on.
'I work way longer hours than her in a much more physically demanding profession (I'm a plumber, she's an engineer) so I think we're putting an equal amount of effort into this baby.'
He also insisted he helps around the house and broke down their chores. His wife does all the cooking and cleans the dishes, he said, but he does the laundry, takes out the garbage, and mows the lawn.
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Lazy: The man insists on having an hour to play video games every day — even if that means he plays while his wife cooks dinner and watches the kids at the same time
He didn't indicate how often he does those things, though the average household doesn't require laundry, garbage removal, or lawn mowing every day.
The man noted that his mother-in-law helps with the kids and accuses him of being 'useless' and he's 'sick of her c**p.'
'Just because I want one hour of video games to myself a day instead of cleaning up messes in the kitchen doesn't mean I'm "useless,"' he wrote.
The problems came to a head last week when his wife 'screamed at me from the kitchen to get off my a** and entertain our twins so she could focus on her meatloaf'.
Apparently, his pregnant wife has been cooking him dinner and watching their children while he played video games.
Rather than jump up to take on the childcare duties, though, the man said he made 'a dumb joke about how this is the third meatloaf we'll be eating this week' — and his wife was furious.
'She told me how I have no sympathy for the fact that she's pregnant, [that] I should be taking on more of her chores since I can't breastfeed,' he said.
'But then I reminded her that I still work a lot more hours than her, so I think we're basically both pregnant.'
He said his wife got 'really quiet' and has barely been speaking to him since. Still, he doesn't think he is wrong.
Other Redditors, however, agreed unanimously that he was very much in the wrong.
'You're a huge major a**hole,' wrote one. 'She's creating a living creature inside of her and let me assure you that s*** is way harder than whatever you have to do.'
'You literally have no idea what it is like creating a child. Do you understand what it does to your mind body and spirit?' wrote another. 'You have the nerve to be upset with her for asking you to do your job and watch your own children so she can make you all dinner? What the heck is wrong with you?!'
While most people were horrified that the man thought he carried any of the burden of pregnancy, several were shocked that a father-of-three — and soon to be four — could insist on an hour of video game play every day.
Several also pointed out that their division of chores seems incredibly lopsided, since cooking and cleaning dishes are daily tasks, and laundry is usually a weekly one. Mowing the lawn is also typically only a once-weekly task — and even then, only for part of the year.
'So now that we've established she does more at home than you do, how about you drop the whole "I work more hours than she does" bit?' one commenter said.
Still more were fixated on how he complained about having to listen to his wife vomit.
'I'm sorry you poor soul have to put up with the sound of her PUKING HER GUTS OUT. You sound like a real catch,' one wrote.
Ultimately, the man's post reached more than just strangers: His wife stumbled upon it, and now the pair are headed for couple's counseling.
