‘"Sorry, you should [have] got up to make my lunch"’: Working woman stops making entitled husband work lunches after he spends a fortune on eating out and blames her for it

It's 2025, and we're still hearing stories about husbands who expect their working wives to make them lunch at the crack of dawn every morning. I didn't know we were stuck in the 1950s.

In spousal relationships, the dynamic between both partners is spoken about before you marry each other and move into a nice big house together. Setting boundaries, standards, and expectations for each person's role is integral to a healthy partnership. However, a lot of spouses miss the beat on "partnership" and instead treat their partners like servants. Luckily, the woman who is being treated this way in the next story refuses to allow that treatment any longer.

The woman works night shifts frequently, while her husband works a regular day shift. When she gets home in the early hours of the morning, the last thing she wants to do is make lunch before bed. They also have a child, who frequently wakes her up when she's not working the night shift. All signs point to her husband making his own darn lunch. He didn't like hearing that from his wife, though. Scroll to read.

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