Jaw Wired Shut: Husband Snaps at Wife When She Asks for Help With Cooking and Treats Her Medical Leave Like a Vacation

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    Font - Posted by u/blackpugstudios 6 hours ago AITA for not wanting to make dinner every night?
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    Font - I (40f) had jaw surgery in November, and have had my jaw wired shut ever since. I'm mostly surviving on Ensure, blenderized soups, smoothies, and baby food. It's been tough. During this time, I have continued to make my child's breakfast every morning, make his lunch for school, do the grocery shopping, and make dinner most nights. Honestly, it's torture.
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    Font - My husband (40) works full time, and doesn't really feel like cooking when he gets home. I get it, but at the same time, making dinner every night, and having to watch and smell it cook when I know I can't eat it is awful. (And I know there are lots of ways to blend proper meals, but by the time I add enough broth, juice, etc. to make it drinkable, it's disgusting.)
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    Font - The other night, I asked if he could make dinner at least a few nights a week, and he got pretty offended. He said that since I'm not working (I'm on medical leave), it's nice to come home to dinner being ready and not having to rush to start it. Last night, I thought I could compromise and get all of the ingredients prepared and ready so he could just do the actual cooking, and he was pretty ticked off all night.
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    Art - Am I being wanting to cook every night? unreasonable? AITA for not
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    Font - QueenOfTheSnarkness · 6 hr. ago Asshole Enthusiast [5] Took a look at OP's post history. According to it, she's been having jaw trouble for YEARS. And her jaw is going to be wired shut for months which means she's going to be on a liquid diet and (I'm assuming) in constant pain for months. Instead of supporting her and making things easier on her, her husband is expecting too much from her and acting like she's on vacation, not medical leave.
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    Font - If he continues to demand you be his unpaid professional chef, tell him you're only cooking what you can eat and see how long he lasts on a liquid diet. ΝΤΑ
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    Font - Complex-Pirate-4264 4 hr. ago This is the way. Don't prepare food you can't eat. If they don't like it...they can make something themselves.
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    Font - whichwitch9 - 1 hr. ago My dad criticized how my mom did laundry in the beginning of their marriage. As a result, he's been doing his own laundry for 40 years now. It's an infamous story in my family now and mostly something that was said as a warning to the rest of us.
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    Font - Sometimes you gotta take a stance.
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    Font - Pumpkin_Pie_1474 2 hr. ago Ten bucks says the selfish hubbie instead storms out of the house and gets takeaway that he proceeds to MMMM! and OOOO! and AAAA! eat in front of OP just to be painful.
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    Font - KeyFly3 43 min. ago Asshole Enthusiast [6] · At which point, OP uses the time of her medical leave to heal and to get her ducks in a row, and then divorces the AH. If he does that, there's no coming back from that llevel of disrespect, lack of caring and cruelty.
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    Font - Known-Committee8679 · 3 hr. ago It seems many spouses lately has forgotten what "in sickness and in health" means. They decide that "in sickness" means "too-bad-so-sad be my spouse slave".

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