{"id":80929,"date":"2024-09-16T14:12:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=80929"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:12:49","slug":"i-refused-to-cook-all-three-meals-of-the-day-to-my-husband-and-his-reaction-shocked-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/i-refused-to-cook-all-three-meals-of-the-day-to-my-husband-and-his-reaction-shocked-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Cook All Three Meals of the Day to My Husband, and His Reaction Shocked Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many women struggle with the expectation to cook for their husbands every day, especially if they have other responsibilities or preferences. But what happens when a woman decides to stop cooking all three meals of the day for her husband and let him fend for himself? That\u2019s what one Reddit user did, and she shared her story on the site. In this article, we\u2019ll tell you what she did, why she did it, and how her husband reacted. You might be surprised by the outcome.\n

The author shared, “I have three kids and am currently pregnant with my fourth. I left work to take care of our kids. My husband thinks that because I don\u2019t work outside the house, it\u2019s my responsibility to take care of ALL duties related to the house and the kids. You name it \u2014 cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, homework, school activities, drop-offs, etc.\n

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On top of everything I do, he also expects me to make all of his meals \u2014 breakfast, lunch and dinner. I have been so tired recently from entertaining the kids all day during summer vacation and having difficulty with my pregnancy. He told me, \u201cLife\u2019s tough. This is your job,\u201d and had no sympathy for me. He thinks I have it easy because I \u201cdon\u2019t work.\u201d\n
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For illustrative purposes only (Freepik)\n
The last two nights, I\u2019ve refused to make him dinner, and he\u2019s acting like I\u2019m a useless \u2018horrible\u2019 wife. Why can\u2019t he stop at the store after work and pick himself something up? Or look at what we have in the fridge and make something? When he\u2019s hungry, he\u2019ll constantly say, \u201cI\u2019m starving, I\u2019m so hungry,\u201d being passive-aggressive to let me know he wants me to make him something. I\u2019m completely undervalued and unappreciated. Am I doing the wrong thing by putting my foot down and refusing to wait on him hand and foot?”\n
The woman received a lot of supporting comments. Here are some of them:\n
\n
Unless your husband is working 16 hours a day, he had better start stepping up. You\u2019re doing the work of babysitter, cook, cleaner, and personal shopper. How many jobs is he doing? sugarpopspete \/ reddit\n
Seriously! I\u2019m a stay-at-home mom, too, and even when my husband works 14-hour days, he makes his own breakfast. Homemaker13 \/ Reddit\n
I don\u2019t care if he is working 16-hour days…he can make his own food and help with the kids. Her job never ends. PlaidyLady \/ Reddit\n\n
Sharing home responsibilities can sometimes become an uphill task for a couple. We hope this couple manages to find their way to peace.\n
Source: Brightside\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many women struggle with the expectation to cook for their husbands every day, especially if they have other responsibilities or preferences. But what happens when a woman decides to stop cooking all three meals of the day for her husband and let him fend for himself? That\u2019s what one Reddit user did, and she shared …\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":80930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80931,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80929\/revisions\/80931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

For illustrative purposes only (\u00a9 gpointstudio \/ Freepik)\n
On top of everything I do, he also expects me to make all of his meals \u2014 breakfast, lunch and dinner. I have been so tired recently from entertaining the kids all day during summer vacation and having difficulty with my pregnancy. He told me, \u201cLife\u2019s tough. This is your job,\u201d and had no sympathy for me. He thinks I have it easy because I \u201cdon\u2019t work.\u201d\n
$\"\"$
For illustrative purposes only (Freepik)\n
The last two nights, I\u2019ve refused to make him dinner, and he\u2019s acting like I\u2019m a useless \u2018horrible\u2019 wife. Why can\u2019t he stop at the store after work and pick himself something up? Or look at what we have in the fridge and make something? When he\u2019s hungry, he\u2019ll constantly say, \u201cI\u2019m starving, I\u2019m so hungry,\u201d being passive-aggressive to let me know he wants me to make him something. I\u2019m completely undervalued and unappreciated. Am I doing the wrong thing by putting my foot down and refusing to wait on him hand and foot?”\n
The woman received a lot of supporting comments. Here are some of them:\n
\n
Unless your husband is working 16 hours a day, he had better start stepping up. You\u2019re doing the work of babysitter, cook, cleaner, and personal shopper. How many jobs is he doing? sugarpopspete \/ reddit\n
Seriously! I\u2019m a stay-at-home mom, too, and even when my husband works 14-hour days, he makes his own breakfast. Homemaker13 \/ Reddit\n
I don\u2019t care if he is working 16-hour days…he can make his own food and help with the kids. Her job never ends. PlaidyLady \/ Reddit\n\n
Sharing home responsibilities can sometimes become an uphill task for a couple. We hope this couple manages to find their way to peace.\n
Source: Brightside\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many women struggle with the expectation to cook for their husbands every day, especially if they have other responsibilities or preferences. But what happens when a woman decides to stop cooking all three meals of the day for her husband and let him fend for himself? That\u2019s what one Reddit user did, and she shared …\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":80930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80931,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80929\/revisions\/80931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}