Ungrateful husband buys himself new iPad while ignoring household needs, wife is at her wit's end: "I'm one burnt finger away from throwing that stupid pan out the window"

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jul 8, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Hey there ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Being married is no walk in the park. When you marry, you're in the midst of lovebird head nestling, doe-like eye contact, and physical touch as your love language. As your marriage unfolds and you both spend more time together, you start to grow both together and apart in different ways. There's a constant ebb and glow in a relationship, and you always have to adapt to the person in front of you. It's no joke that communication is key, and that you will find significant challenges within your relationship. 

You might get more frustrated than you did at the beginning of the marriage, you may bicker more and feel like the other person isn't even trying to meet you halfway. Stripping away your ego is a good start, and there's no shortage of good intentions when it comes to maintaining a healthy relationship. After years of marriage, instead of fighting about where you go out to eat for date night, you fight about the broken garage door, the shower head, and the AC.

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    AITAH for calling out my husband for buying himself a new iPad while our kitchen is falling Apart?

    "The kitchen is falling apart"
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    So here's what happened. We moved into this house two years ago. It's not perfect far from it but we've been slowly making it our own. Except... "we" is generous.
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    I've been the one making do, patching stuff up, budgeting. I cook every day. I clean. I take care of our toddler. I make sure
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    everything runs, even when nothing works right. Our kitchen is a mess. Burners that won't light. A rice cooker with a busted lid.
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    Blender d d months ago. I've been using one frying pan with a broken handle. I've mentioned it so many times. Like, "hey, maybe
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    next month we can buy a set,” or "I saw a good deal on cookware," and he always says "yeah, soon.” So imagine my face when he
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    [[
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    walked in last weekend... holding a brand new iPad Pro. I just stared at him. He didn't even try to hide it. Just goes, "It was on sale. I needed something for YouTube
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    and notes." Notes. For what? He doesn't even take notes. He uses his phone for everything. I asked, "What about the stuff we actually need? Like, for example, in the
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    kitchen? Where, you know, we make food?" He shrugged. "It's not that urgent. You're still able to cook, right?" Still able to cook??
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    I'm one burnt finger away from throwing that stupid pan out the window. And here's where it gets worse.
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    DD Ha TOME BELIEVE ELCOM CAR bb where you're p HOME sweet GOOD FOOD GOOD TE EAT DR 789
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    His mom who never liked how I manage the household heard about the argument and told me I was "overreacting” and that “men
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    deserve to treat themselves sometimes." Oh, okay. So I just don't? I snapped. I told him it's disrespectful. That I bust my a every day making meals with
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    broken tools while he gets to spoil himself with expensive toys. And he got mad. Said I made him feel guilty for "one small purchase." It's not about the iPad.
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    It's about priorities. It's about how I'm expected to be okay with scraps while he gets shiny new tech. Every. Single. Time. Now he's being cold. His mom thinks I'm
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    controlling. And I'm sitting here wondering... should I have just kept my mouth shut? AITAH?
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    Forward_Ad_7988 • 13h ago 'one small purchase' I don't know the prices of apple products where you
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    live, but here I would have to save up for over a year for ipad pro NTA
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    library-girl 13h ago When I read the title, I thought it was like a kitchen remodel situation and I was like "Well, that's really
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    expensive and there's a lot of logistics." But GIRL! If you don't have access to money to buy less than $100 worth
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    of kitchen equipment you are being financially abused. You deserve pots and pans!
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