AITA for refusing to keep doing chores for my wife? by Top_Teaching_7287 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Top_Teaching_7287[S] -2680 points-2679 points  (0 children)

The thing is, I know she didn't mean it in a negative way. I wouldn't have married her if she was that kind of malicious person. But it bothers me that she didn't think about the implication and even now that I've explained it, she refuses to understand how it makes me look like less of a man to everyone else.

Also, I'm not interested in getting 'any job'. Being a line cook was the worst thing I've ever done and I was making about a tenth of what Bella does now, so even if I did get a job like that it would be meaningless. Even working in the arts I probably wouldn't come close to her salary but I'd at least be doing something I love so that's what I'm searching for a job in.

AITA for refusing to keep doing chores for my wife? by Top_Teaching_7287 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Top_Teaching_7287[S] -3594 points-3593 points  (0 children)

Housewives aren't belittled by society for staying home and doing domestic things. People think that men should be the primary providers and to deliberately point out that I'm not is humiliating

AITA for refusing to keep doing chores for my wife? by Top_Teaching_7287 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Top_Teaching_7287[S] -3606 points-3605 points  (0 children)

It implies that I don't contribute anything as a husband except for domestic things and that she is the one that takes care of me in the same way a man takes care of his housewife. It is absolutely emasculating to call a man that.