r/relationships: I have nothing against this baby.

The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > r/relationships: I have nothing against this baby.

cumshitter: Sep 27, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

AITA for not knowing how to run the house like my wife did for almost 50 years?

quote:

My wife and I are 68, I retired about 3 years ago, and my wife is/was a nurse who went back to work for a, �change of pace�. So for the first time ever I�m out of work, and she�s working. This has created a bit of an awkward dynamic since I have 0 experience doing chores (we got married and moved in together when we were 18, and before that I lived with my mom). So I legitimately have never had to lift a finger at home til recently.

My wife packed my lunch and kissed me goodbye for 47 years. She was a bit shocked to discover I won�t be doing the same. She�s had to teach me how to cook, since I had very little experience doing it (none actually), now the only thing I can do well is clean. So that is not an issue. But everything else that she used to do I�m just not capable of. She�s been less than understanding�

I feel that we should maybe split the chores

We recently got into an argument because I haven�t been able to, �do what I (she) did for almost 50 years� Which she�s right, but like I said�.I have no experience with any of this stuff. I didn�t even want to retire since my dad and grandpa worked til the day they died, but she convinced me too. And now I�m stuck here. I�m doing my best.

She got retrained before going back to work

Motherfucker stares at a sandwich and somehow can't reverse engineer it.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:18

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 29, 2024 23:07

zakharov: Nov 30, 2002; Tater Love

A 68 year old retiree is posing this question on Reddit?

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:20

Invisible Clergy: Sep 25, 2015; "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for sending my stepson to his mom after he flushed my daughter's formula down the toilet and wanting to tell his dad?

That's attempted murder. Fire the stepson into the sun.

mllaneza posted:

tldr; do not gently caress with OP

Hell Hath No Fury Like Me Scorned (also posted on r/nuclearrevenge)

This is the best post I've ever read in this thread. It has just enough uninteresting mundane detail to be completely believable. I hope it's real.

trickybiscuits posted:

The flip side to this is apparently if you get the full vaccines before you show symptoms, you'll be okay. If this story is real, this woman is running a total scam.

OP's comment:

drat. I've messed up hilariously in my life, but "I'm going to forgo medical treatment so I don't ruin my vacation" is way out of my league. Like somebody posted recently, there are people out there who can't be reasoned with because all they care about is what they want at that moment. They are pure Id.

The story is very believable, if not true, because people are morons about their healthcare. Years ago I read some evangelical Christian propaganda about how you should become a Christian because if you were sick, wouldn't you want the best medical care and the best doctors, therefore wouldn't you ? (This was before Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer and I think before the "vaccines cause autism" movement really hit it big in the US.) I haven't thought of that in ages but it popped into my head recently because of how stupidly people are responding to Covid. I also enjoy reading horrible stories from health care professionals and there's been stuff like the woman who had to have the same eye operation three times because instead of going home and lying down quietly she went to family dinners and stuff. Because the alternative to screwing up recovery from an operation on her eyeball was that she didn't get to go to a family dinner.

There was also a story about a kid who had an eye operation and then went on a roller coaster at an amusement park a few days later, but I give that kid a pass because we're all morons at age twelve; the adults were really the ones who failed there. Anyway, that one couldn't be fixed and now he doesn't have that eye anymore.

So she refused a free lifesaving vaccine for no reason? Cool, she can get in line to get hosed with the rest of the antivaxx trash.

jkk posted:

So this person clearly has a mobile phone, but for some reason they put the family landline number on the application?

It's also possible she just has lovely cell service at her house. My old place has terrible service and calls placed to mobile numbers just drop into the abyss all the time and don't display even as missed calls, so I listed the house as primary contact for similar reasons.

Baronjutter posted:

100% believe rabies woman. We had a fairly recent case where some idiot 20-something saw a "bat acting really weird" so of course instantly got out his phone to try to earn some tiktok cred. Went over and picked up the bat and handled it while laughing about how weird the bad was acting. Eventually threw it down after it bit him. What a funny video.

He died. None of his idiot friends knew what rabies was. They knew he was bit and everyone agreed to just wait and see how he felt, only went to the doctor after symptoms started.

Also this is canada so there was no financial consideration to seeing the doctor.

lol.

WIBTA for asking my girlfriend to get a second job and recommending a maid?

quote:

My girlfriend and I are saving for a house and I�ve been doing research on how to make more money since I�m handling our finances and I also handling all our debts and bills since I make significantly more money than my girlfriend but she also works.

We split our chores evenly but and clean on fridays but I�ve been sick the past 2 weekends and she has had to do the majority on her own although I�ve helped out where I could and we�ve been fighting because she�s saying I�m not doing enough.

I want to recommend getting a maid (since we clean fridays anyways) to take that pressure off of us but I want to ask her to get a weekend job to help finish paying off our debt and save faster. We just had to renew our lease for another 12 months because we weren�t bringing in money fast enough and I�m trying to avoid doing that again. WIBTA?

Edit since there�s some confusion:

We both work 40 hours a week We�re working on paying off both our debts mine and hers Any extra income she makes would go straight into her credit card debt at no point would any of that money be used to cover any other expenses except to save for a down payment once the debt is payed off

Invisible Clergy fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Nov 17, 2021

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:21

Ethiser: Dec 31, 2011

I can�t imagine what kind of sicko would choose to go back into a job like nursing at 68 if they didn�t have to.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:21

Soylent Pudding: Jun 22, 2007; We've got people!

AITA for not calling out my son for treating my daughter badly?

quote:

I have two kids, a son Ben (44) and a daughter Emma (42F). Their father and I divorced when they were young. He wasn�t a good husband but he isn�t a bad man. He is wealthy. He didn�t bond with Emma and he favored Ben. It became overt as they grew up. Ben was easier than Emma and did well in school and sports. Emma, although smart, wasn�t interested in school and was rebellious as a teenager.

Their father spoiled Ben and, if I�m honest, he wasn�t nice to Emma. This upset her and she would cry, feeling unfairly treated. I felt bad but I couldn�t do anything about it so felt it better to pretend it wasn�t happening and hope it got better. It didn�t, he wanted nothing to do with her although there wasn�t a reason why.

Emma struggled to cope with this and I think expected me to stand up for her but I hate confrontation and her father never listens to me anyway. I preferred not to discuss it with Emma and focus on other things but she said I didn�t allow her to be upset and didn�t validate her. I didn�t want to potentially cause a bigger rift and cause Ben to side with his father. Ben, on the other hand was lavished with anything he wanted, money, cars. He was expected to be successful like his father.

As adults the relationship between Ben and Emma fizzled out which was sad but I couldn�t do anything about it. Despite being given a large amount of wealth and more opportunities than most, Ben hasn�t become successful and he is quite resentful about it. His father stopped giving him money a few years ago and he partially blames me because I told his father that he had given him too much. Despite being an easy child, Ben has grown up to be rather difficult, he has a temper and is very sensitive about his lack of career success, so we aren�t allowed to talk about it.

Emma is a stay at home mom. She�s a good mom and her children�s father earns a lot of money. Her father was regretful so he reconnected with her. They have a relationship, its quite superficial but I think it healed the wound a bit for Emma so she reached out to Ben.

They got along well for couple years but Ben stopped speaking to Emma. Emma was upset and thinks it�s because Ben doesn�t like their father�s interest in her. Ben hasn�t given her an explanation but he told me a silly reason, that doesn�t make sense.

I told Emma I think Ben has behaved very badly. She asked me if I told him that. I said no and she shouted at me that I have never stuck up for her or protected her and if I can�t do it this one time she doesn�t want a relationship with me. That I enable this behavior at her expense and she�s sick and tired of it. The thing is Emma has 3 kids and Ben has 1 kid. Emma will still allow me to have a good relationship with her kids but Ben has made it difficult for me to see his kid in the past when he is angry so I�m afraid he will do that again and stop speaking to me. I also don�t want to be forced to be in the middle of them so I won�t do it. AITA?

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:22

Invisible Clergy: Sep 25, 2015; "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

cumshitter posted:

AITA for not knowing how to run the house like my wife did for almost 50 years?

Motherfucker stares at a sandwich and somehow can't reverse engineer it.

Sure he can, he's just weaponizing his incompetence like all these unwiped manchildren do.

Ethiser posted:

I can�t imagine what kind of sicko would choose to go back into a job like nursing at 68 if they didn�t have to.

If the alternative is being at home with OP 24/7 I can understand Mrs. OP's choice to choose to be a nurse during a plague.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:24

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

I once saw a bat dart out to attack a pigeon, in the middle of the afternoon, in broad daylight, on a college campus.

That is my weird bat story, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:25

ChunTheUnavoidable: Sep 27, 2021

In parts of California the bubonic plague is endemic and every once in a while someone catches it and dies because they just don�t expect to get plague and put off the emergency room visit for too long. There was a really sad instance a few years ago where a woman in Lake Tahoe caught pneumonic plague from her cat and died

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:26

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

zakharov posted:

A 68 year old retiree is posing this question on Reddit?

well yeah the 68-year-olds incapable of survival without Mommy taking care everything who post on Facebook wouldn't see that as a problem

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:30

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for not calling out my son for treating my daughter badly?

I have two kids, a son Ben (44) and a daughter Emma (42F).

WTH is this old people day on Reddit??

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:33

DAD LOST MY IPOD: Feb 3, 2012; Fats Dominar is on the case

rabies and tetanus, man. If you suspect you were exposed just get the shot. However bad you think shots are, rabies and tetanus are worse.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:36

limp_cheese: Sep 10, 2007; Nothing to see here. Move along.

ChunTheUnavoidable posted:

In parts of California the bubonic plague is endemic and every once in a while someone catches it and dies because they just don�t expect to get plague and put off the emergency room visit for too long. There was a really sad instance a few years ago where a woman in Lake Tahoe caught pneumonic plague from her cat and died

When I went to Yosemite with my cousin there were signs everywhere telling people to no touch the squirrels under any circumstance because they have the bubonic plague. You could tell which ones had it because their fur was missing in spots and they just looked run down. Still didn't stop people from trying to pet the obviously sick, plague carrying squirrel that isn't running away from them. It always dumbfounds me that for some people it doesn't matter how many times you tell them "This stove is hot. You can see its hot by how its glowing red and giving off heat." yet they are bound and determined to touch it anyways for reasons they can't articulate.

Some people are driven by nature to kill themselves even though they are not suicidal.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:40

ziasquinn: Jan 1, 2006; Fallen Rib

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

�Give me your house, your husband, your huddled babies yearning to breathe free, the things I envy of your desirable life. Send these, the things I need, to me, I lift my lamp to illuminate my entitlement!�

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:42

StormDrain: May 22, 2003; Thirteen Letter

Oh boy I had a bat in my bedroom last year and someone (goons actually) had to tell me to get rabies vaccinated. Absolutely wild, the mild anxiety that comes along with that is like a low level white noise machine across your life.

I lived.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:43

trickybiscuits: Jan 13, 2008; yospos

ScienceSeagull posted:

Is there a thread for stories like that here? Sounds like great procrastination reading material.

Could they go into this thread? I once had to have surgery on my hand (never try to open a window by pushing out against the glass instead of up against the frame, kids) and a full year later, after everything had healed beautifully, the washing machine wouldn't open so I smacked it in frustration and my palm hit the edge in just the right way that it jostled the repaired nerve. Took years for it to get back to normal and there's still a spot at the tip of my little finger that feels a bit static-y when I touch it. The doctor didn't warn against doing things like this, but to be fair he couldn't have foreseen that "Don't hit washing machines" would turn out to be necessary advice.

trickybiscuits fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Nov 17, 2021

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:45

Invisible Clergy: Sep 25, 2015; "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

limp_cheese posted:

When I went to Yosemite with my cousin there were signs everywhere telling people to no touch the squirrels under any circumstance because they have the bubonic plague. You could tell which ones had it because their fur was missing in spots and they just looked run down. Still didn't stop people from trying to pet the obviously sick, plague carrying squirrel that isn't running away from them. It always dumbfounds me that for some people it doesn't matter how many times you tell them "This stove is hot. You can see its hot by how its glowing red and giving off heat." yet they are bound and determined to touch it anyways for reasons they can't articulate.

Some people are driven by nature to kill themselves even though they are not suicidal.

idiocracy.mp4

StormDrain posted:

Oh boy I had a bat in my bedroom last year and someone (goons actually) had to tell me to get rabies vaccinated. Absolutely wild, the mild anxiety that comes along with that is like a low level white noise machine across your life.

I lived.

Solid advice. Bats are really small and it's possible to be bitten by one while asleep or something and not notice. Glad someone's taking rabies seriously.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:46

spacetoaster: Feb 10, 2014

zakharov posted:

A 68 year old retiree is posing this question on Reddit?

My dad is in his 70's and is more internet saavy than me.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:47

Xachariah: Jul 26, 2004

cumshitter posted:

AITA for not knowing how to run the house like my wife did for almost 50 years?

Motherfucker stares at a sandwich and somehow can't reverse engineer it.

Uh, what the gently caress? 68 years old and he thinks that excuse for laziness is gonna work? This is something I'd expect from a particularly dense teenager.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:48

kntfkr: Feb 11, 2019; GOOSE FUCKER

My grandfather was like that with cooking. Lived with his parents, then world war 2 so merchant marines and then my grandmother provided all his meals and when she died he didn't know how to make anything but tuna fish and hot dogs. He died like 6 months after her. I get sad thinking about it.

My dad was the first of his family to live in a house rather than an apartment.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 21:57

Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

Xachariah posted:

Uh, what the gently caress? 68 years old and he thinks that excuse for laziness is gonna work? This is something I'd expect from a particularly dense teenager.

He's a boomer, so it makes sense that he's been a particularly dense teenager for 50 years.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 22:04

Pigsfeet on Rye: Oct 22, 2008; I'm meat on the hoof

pentyne posted:

there's really nothing there that doesn't scream "absolutely real" to anyone who's ever lived in a small rural town.

r/relationships: I lift my lamp to illuminate my entitlement

Actually, there's so much entitlement in AITA and Relationships that this would work well

# ? Nov 17, 2021 22:07

Soylent Pudding: Jun 22, 2007; We've got people!

limp_cheese posted:

It always dumbfounds me that for some people it doesn't matter how many times you tell them "This stove is hot. You can see its hot by how its glowing red and giving off heat." yet they are bound and determined to touch it anyways for reasons they can't articulate.

Some people are driven by nature to kill themselves even though they are not suicidal.

I was at a college party and getting ready to take tater tots out of the oven. I warned people in the kitchen to stand back so they didn't touch the hot oven door. One of the party goers asked "what if I touch the oven anyway." I just told him I'd call him a dumbass. Naturally he grabbed the hot tray with his hand and burned himself to prove a point. He was also quite drunk.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 22:16

pentyne: Nov 7, 2012

Haven't seen a good "someone sent themselevs $800 from my venmo" or some similar e payment system tomfoolery in a while.

I occasionally think about the guy who got soaked for like $2k by an online escort and was arguing in the comments the $400 down payment he started with made perfect sense and con artists wouldn't ask for down payments.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 22:32

Weatherwax: Aug 17, 2008

Cowslips Warren posted:

It does make me wonder, if the mom is out of it from pain meds after labor, and the dad were to write down the name he wants, could she contest/have the hospital undo it? or would she have to tell the nurses first so the admin is aware?

I know I'm late, this god drat fast thread, but...
My godmother was born in Germany right after (or during?) WW2 and at least back then you had to name your child within 24 hours. Her parents decide on a name after she is born, her dad rushes down to the municipality office to register his daughter and forgot her name.
This is how she ended up with the name Rosemarie
She hates it, her mother hated it but they could not afford to change it before it had festered

# ? Nov 17, 2021 22:34

cumshitter: Sep 27, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

AITA for just leaving instead of accepting my "most annoying" award?

quote:

I'm 18f, I have pretty severe adhd, suspected ASD, and it shows. I can come off as annoying pretty often but I never really knew the true extent of it. I graduated in June and officially had my "prom" on Sunday.

There was awards being handed out, such as most likely to be x y z, most popular, best singer. They we're all done by anonymous vote. There was 200+ people in attendance and it was fairly fun until the awards.

It wasn't until the second last one where the guy on the stage said there was a most annoying award. My heart dropped at just that because there was a pretty big bullying problem in my year and I unfortunately happened to be one of the ones who was picked on relentlessly.

Anyways, my name was called and instead of accepting it, I just left. I didn't cry in front of anyone and kept my cool. My boyfriend came with me and spent pretty much the entire night afterwards comforting me and basically telling me that everyone I go to school with are assholes.

On Monday morning, a few people from my class texted to ask if I was alright, but more people said I should've proudly accepted the award instead of making a scene and ruining the night for everyone. AITA for ruining everyone's night instead of just accepting the "award".

# ? Nov 17, 2021 22:52

TheWeedNumber: Apr 20, 2020; by sebmojo

cumshitter posted:

AITA for just leaving instead of accepting my "most annoying" award?

Pwnd

# ? Nov 17, 2021 22:54

hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

it is possible that op is very annoying indeed

# ? Nov 17, 2021 22:56

Midnight Voyager: Jul 2, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

cumshitter posted:

AITA for just leaving instead of accepting my "most annoying" award?

"Just let us publicly humiliate you, god!"

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:06

The Maroon Hawk: May 10, 2008

Who the gently caress greenlit a "Most Annoying" award in the first place?

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:12

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

The Maroon Hawk posted:

Who the gently caress greenlit a "Most Annoying" award in the first place?

A huge part of the bullying problem in a lot of schools flows straight from the top.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:13

Everett False: Sep 28, 2006; Mopsy, I'm starting to question your medical credentials.

You're supposed to go along with it so we can talk about what a good sport you are and pretend this isn't bullying!!

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:16

Hughlander: May 11, 2005

Meh, OP took it too far:

quote:

There were a few, like most likely to be expelled or most likely to drop out.

There was a most likely to unalive themselves one...I know the guy who got it and he definitely would ...

If a school event gave out an award of most likely to kill themselves, we'd heard about it on the news by now.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:19

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

Hughlander posted:

Meh, OP took it too far:

If a school event gave out an award of most likely to kill themselves, we'd heard about it on the news by now.

I won �most unique� or similar in senior year and I�ve always thought it was a subtle jab.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:26

trickybiscuits: Jan 13, 2008; yospos

cumshitter posted:

AITA for just leaving instead of accepting my "most annoying" award?

comment:

quote:

I don't know, one man's roast is another man's 'hey I'm actually cripplingly insecure about that but thought no one noticed, thanks'. Assholes all round here, barring OP

I was voted "Most Quiet" in my senior year. Turned out I had crippling social anxiety that required years of therapy and antidepressants to get me to some semblance of normalcy. Hooray!

Fortunately it wasn't at prom, which I didn't go to anyway. It was for the yearbook and I just didn't turn up to have my photo taken because I had better things to do. I mean I was there at school when the photos were being taken, and I was completely free and had nowhere to be and actually walked past the place where they were taking the pictures, but having my picture taken for the awards section was less important than NOT having my picture taken for the awards section.

Anyway, it was nice to get out of high school.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:28

quantumwell: Jun 22, 2013

Midnight Voyager posted:

"Just let us publicly humiliate you, god!"

I was hoping she'd go up and get the award, then turn into "Carrie" and clairvoyantly kill them all.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:29

kntfkr: Feb 11, 2019; GOOSE FUCKER

Our se�ior superlatives had a best smile winner of a boy who lost most of his teeth on a steering wheel.

Co-ed "Who would you wanna be stranded on a desert island w/" went to run-of-the mill hot girl & my friend Cuban B, w/ the implication being that he could build a raft to escape the island. (He would not be able to do this)

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:34

Gnossiennes: Jan 7, 2013; Loving chairs more every day!

my sister got "friendliest" as an award in middle school which turned out to be because people were bullying her for seemingly slutty because she hit puberty pretty early :smith:

it hosed with her for years, and it still makes me mad because she's just a legit nice and friendly person.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:36

Macrame_God: Sep 1, 2005; The stairs lead down in both directions.

mllaneza posted:

tldr; do not gently caress with OP

Hell Hath No Fury Like Me Scorned (also posted on r/nuclearrevenge)

Don't be intimidated by the wall of text. This story makes for quite a satisfying read.

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:38

SirSamVimes: Jul 21, 2008; ~* Challenge *~

Macrame_God posted:

Don't be intimidated by the wall of text. This story makes for quite a satisfying read.

I was reading it thinking "this is fiction but enjoyable fiction" but apparently they posted pics so lol

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:44

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 29, 2024 23:07

Hughlander: May 11, 2005

AITA for not refusing to give my son the name my husband wants to give him?

quote:

While this post isn't going to be as dramatic as a lot of the other ones on here the only reason I'm using a throwaway is because people I know in real life are aware of my reddit username and I'm not comfortable with our disagreement becoming public knowledge.

Anyway all you really need to know is that my husband (36) and myself (31) are expecting a son and we're having severe disagreements over what to name him. I want to name him after my dad who died in the Gulf War to honour him and his sacrifice while my husband wants to name him Lucius after Lucius Junius Brutus, an Ancient Roman politican who led the revolution that founded the Roman Republic.

Now I know it sounds ridiculous (and I agree that it is) but to my husband Lucius Junius Brutus isn't just some dead guy, my husband genuinely looks up to him and has devoted a significant portion of his career (he has a PhD in Classical History) researching him and his life (he's got a book that's going to be published sometime next year about him).

The thing is not only do I just not like the name, I also don't want to name my son after some random person who died three thousand years ago and who no one today knows ever existed other than a handful of historians. I want to name my son after my father to honour him and to keep his name alive.

My husband and I had a big argument a few days ago about this and he's very up in arms about it. He considers it his hill to die on. The main point in his argument is that as the father he should get equal right in choosing the name of my son and that if I refused to name him Lucius then he refuses to let me name him after my father. My husband has also pointed out on several occasions throughout the talks we've had about it that he compromised when we got married to drop his surname and to take on mine and says that it's my time to compromise and to let him name my son. He has generously said that I can give my son whatever middle name I like.

I won't lie, I don't really see myself as the rear end in a top hat here. While I do agree that my husband should get a say in what I name my son I don't see how that means that I can let him give my son such a stupid and outdated name.

Et Tu Brute? (Ok, it's actually his grandfather but I couldn't resist)

# ? Nov 17, 2021 23:47

The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > r/relationships: I have nothing against this baby.

«‹›3575 »