‘Looks Like Your Wife Has a New Husband’ : Clueless Dude Babysits Kids While His Spouse Cheats on Him, Even Asks for Standard Babysitting Fee

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    Font - Posted by u/AliveLeg61 21 hours ago AITA for wanting to be pay for babysitting my own daughter? ņ
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    Font - My (39M) wife (34F) and I live in at a suburban house with our daughter (10F, Emily). Our neighbour next door (48M, Walter) is a single father with two daughters (14F and 12F). We have been living here for a little more than two years. My wife really likes watching scary movies but I have never enjoy them. I
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    Font - get too scared and end up having a bad time so I prefer to avoid them. Her friends sometimes go with her to the more popular ones but she also likes older, indies and foreign horror movies. She has always had a hard time finding people that have this niche interest and that is why it was such a big deal when we met Walter and found out he also shares this
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    Font - tendency. They very quickly started to make plans to watch movies together. I was invited to be a part of this but refused. I prefer to just stay at home babysitting Emily and Walter's daughter while they are in their cinephile reunions. Sometimes they go to movie theaters but other times they just stay at
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    Font - Walter's place watching stuf at his home cinema. They usually have to go to another town in order to catch a specific function of some weird movie so it is normal for them to come back very late. They eventually started doing stuff outside of watching movies, like going out for dinner. Walter invited all of us,
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    Font - including the kids, to go with him to a restaurant that a friend of him owned but I said no because it was too expensive. I don't like that kind of places because I feel they are a waste of money and didn't think the kids would enjoy it either. I insisted on staying with the kids and let the two of them go be themselves. This has became a regular thing and it is in a
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    Font - way a good deal for me because Walter pays for my wife's dinner and she can't no longer complain about me not taking her to fancy restaurants. As both their movie and dinner nights had became so common, I have grown a little tired of the burden of constantly babysitting the girls. I talk to my wife and Walter about it and he explained
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    Font - that he usually does not like leaving his duaghters with babysitters. He says he is really comfortable knowing that they are being watched by an experienced father like me instead of some teenage girl. He nevertheless agreed that it was too much of a load for me and offered to start paying me a standard babysitter fee each time he goes out with my wife.
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    Font - I thought that was a fair approach to the issue but my wife was fully against it. She says I should not be paid for babysitting my own daughter nor the daughters of a close friend of our family like Walter. We have been arguing about this but she insists on this notion and it not open to change. She even gets mad every time I talk to her about this. Walter promised me
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    Font - that he will convince her but he does not seem to have been able to do so either.
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    Font - Primary-Criticism929 · 21 hr. ago 132 Craptain [187] YTA for several reasons, two of which are calling taking care of your own kid "babysitting" and not really caring about your marriage. Don't be surprised if your wife ends up leaving you for Walter, if they're not already having an affair...
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    Font - TunaNoodleCasserole1 20 hr. ago I'm sorry OP, but it looks like your wife has a new husband. And somehow you're the babysitter. I kept reading thinking this must be a joke. YTA asking for babysitting money. But, this whole situation is so bizarre. I think you need to figure out if you want to be married, and if she does. Because right now it doesn't seem like you are.
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    Font - RadiantSriracha · 18 hr. ago To clarify, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a friend of the opposite sex who shares a hobby. The issues is, OP is refusing to participate in ANY aspect of his wife's interests or fill her romantic needs, letting Walter
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    Font - fill the whole a vacuum of his neglect: • won't compromise and join them on any of the movies, even infrequently • won't take his wife to a nice dinner, because he thinks treating his wife to something nice occasionally is a waste of
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    Font - money • insists on staying home when invited to join in non-scary movie activities, then whines about "babysitting" • doesn't suggest any alternate group activities they all might enjoy
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    Font - So, judging by the content of this post, he's just... encouraging his wife to go to Walter for all her emotional and social needs. No way that could ever backfire. 16.0k Share
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    Font - TheSecondEikonOfFire 18 hr. ago It's like the stereotype of guys hating listening to their girls "complain", and are happy when their girl gets a new guy friend that she'll complain to so that they don't have to hear it. And then do a shocked pikachu face when the girl leaves for the new guy

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