35-year-old husband lashes out at wife for keeping her headphones on during WFH day, says she didn't hear him calling for help with chores: 'My husband came in, visibly upset'

Headphones are an incredible invention. I don't know what I would have done without them. All those times on the bus to school, looking out the window listening to whatever angsty Spotify playlist I had just cooked up… those were deeply formative times in my adolescence. Then, as I got older, listening to instrumental jazz as I crammed writing my finals in college-- a true way to lock in in a way that nothing else can let you. And now as a commuting adult, I'd be lost without my headphones, getting in that precious good tunes time before I clock in.

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone to doesn't love to turn off the world and tune into whatever is playing in those cans. Especially when you're working. Noise-cancellation can help you focus, and so can music. It's also a good signal to the world not to bother you when you're deep in the sauce.

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One husband, though, didn't quite see the need. When he noticed that his wife liked to pop in her AirPods when she was hard at work at her remote job, it rubbed him the wrong way. But when he tried to step in and say something, it didn't go how he thought it might. Read on for the story.
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AITA for wearing headphones while WFH and not hearing my husband call for me?

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Commenters came to her defense and tried to figure this out.

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