Boyfriend Pretends To Be Bad At Chores, Gets A Meal of His Own Medicine

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Eric Lund
Nov 8, 2021 6:00 PM EST

Relationships are defined by shared responsibility, and yeah, that means doing the dishes. At this point in history, being a partner who refuses to do chores is rightfully seen as childish, and the prospect of doing them badly out of incompetent spite is a great way to not solve the problem. It's a lot like this husband who refused to do chores and his wife who stopped doing them to make a point. But in this case, it got even more wonderfully petty.

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    Font - Posted by u/lappisl 20 hours ago O 144 99 2 3 155 5 AITA for my petty response to my boyfriend's purposeful incompetence about chores? Not the Adols My boyfriend has started pretending to be bad at basic life s'-: like dishes and laundry like he can't do it so I do it... I felt pretty frustrated with that and told him straight up that I knew he didn't forget how to clean since he moved in with me; he was always very competent living alone and I didn't appreciate him "forgetting" how to do
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    Font - I said that when I asked him to do dishes and he refused and refused until he finally did them wrong, that I was not that stupid. He said that he was trying his best and I was wrong for saying he was trying to manipulate me. And that from his perspective I asked him to do something and he did it the best he could and I kept at him because it wasn't up to my impossibly high standards and he couldn't win... And he wanted me to believe him when he says he is trying. Anyway, this might be pet
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    Font - So... He had bleach stained my favorite little black dress. Instead of getting mad, next time he had a family event, I put it on. He asked me if I was really going to wear that, it looked messy. I said that I loved that dress and understand accidents happen so I wasn't mad or upset it had bleach spots, actually. I thought it looked kinda cool. He said he really thought it looked bad and I said if he wants he could sharpie on the white spots real quick in the Uber. It ended up looking even
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    Font - Another time, we were having dinner and he had done the dishes, but put some of the cups and bowls in the dishwasher upside down so they filled with dirty dishwater. I took those cups and bowls, dumped them out in the sink but didn't wash them further, and served his food in them. He said that it was dirty and I was like "They just came out of the dishwasher! It's just water, it's fine. He said that no it was disgusting, and I said it was really no biggie, I was getting over my impossibly
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    Font - The last time, I had cooked for a work party of his. After cooking, the dish needed to cool for about 30 minutes then be refrigerated. I had plans with my friends that night and I asked him to put the dish away after it cooled. He forgot. The next morning he noticed the dish was never refrigerated. I said it was fine, it was just a mistake, and it would probably be fine to eat, there wasn't a lot of meat in it. He got frustrated and said that you can't serve meat left out overnight even i
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    Font - He's stopped being so lazy about chores after he realized I seem totally okay with leaving stuff done badly and that he'll be living with it. But I feel a little petty for having been dishonest about it. I actually hate how my bleached dress looked and my stomach turns at dirty dish soup and unrefrigerated meat. AITA for being petty?
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    Font - Jaded-Chip343 · 20h 22 9 4 37 Partassipant [2] NTA. You're a genius. It's not petty. It's refusing to let him externalize the costs of his behavior to you. It think it's brilliant and you should keep doing it whenever this comes up. If he's truly being willfully incompetent, you will get the results you see here and he'll have to cut the s'.: out. If it's an area where it is truly your higher standards, you will see that when he doesn't care and you'll be able to decide what to do with th
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    Font - karskipellis · 20h Pooperintendant [51] "The white spots? Oh, Joe put bleach in the wash with it--I think it came out looking great! The Sharpie marker to try to cover it up was his idea, too." At his family event. Tell 'em all what a goober he's being. I love it. NTA
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    Font - Primary-Criticism929 - 20h Certified Proctologist [22] NTA. He played and he lost. Too bad for him...
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    Font - SpaceCrazyArtist · 20h Partassipant [4] NTA he was manipulating you into you doing wverything, but once he realized you werent going to play along and be his mommy, he decided to be an adult. It was a learning experience not being petty
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    Rectangle - Okaythatjij · 20h NTA. The fact that you have noticed him being less lazy about chores confirms your suspicions that he was probably being manipulative.
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    Font - Mr_Waffle_Fry · 20h Partassipant [1] NTA, My wife and I both applaud your sense of humor and support this inspired pettiness wholeheartedly. Sounds like he wanted to play dumb and gaslight you without realizing youre better at it til it was too late. Way to give him a taste of his own BS.
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    Font - ssp1k3 · 20h · edited 18h This is honestly the funniest way I've seen incompetence dealt with! Kudos to you! If you feel really bad come clean about it O but he was playing you the whole time too so I wouldn't feel too bad about it. Sometimes when they go low u gotta go lower. So NTA
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