45-year-old husband tells wife to stop making him breakfast after the gym because she ends up doomscrolling and he has to finish the task: ‘Hey, don’t forget the eggs’

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Molly Vincent
Aug 18, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

We all have our pet peeves in relationships. Even the healthiest of marriages has its fair share of ups and downs. Little things may feel daunting, and suddenly the sound someone makes when they chew is getting on your last nerve. In the story below, the narrator is a married mad who's fed up with a seemingly innocuous thing in his marriage: she offers to make him breakfast, but then gets distracted and in the end he's the one who has to make it. He turns to the internet to get advice on how to navigate the situation. Should he tell her he wants her to stop trying to help? Should he let her keep it up? 
 

Who knew that eggs would be the pinnacle of a fight, but we've all seen more petulant arguments and disagreements between people. What's your go to pet peeve in a relationship? I know I hate when someone is cheap. We all have our frustrations. 

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    AITA for asking my wife to not make breakfast for me anymore

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  • What's your pet peeve? I know that I hate when people stand at the entrance to a bus or train. They're just blocking everything! I also don't like when people start singing a song out of nowhere. And I guess this guy's pet peeve is that his wife starts cooking and doesn't finish. 

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    I'm 45m and she's 41 f, we're married with no kids or pets. One lazy Saturday morning while I'm sleeping late before going to gym, she wakes me to ask if I
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    want her to make me breakfast. Her: do you want me to make you breakfast? Me: no, I'll make something later when I get up
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    Her: why can't you just let me make you something? Me: Boiled eggs
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    She then goes to kitchen and comes back and starts using her phone in bed. A few minutes pass, more than enough time for
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    the eggs to be done but she's engrossed in her phone. She doesn't move from the bed. I eventually get up and go check
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    them. Her: where are you going? Me: to check the eggs
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    I get to the kitchen and I see it's three eggs in the pot. I normally boil 2 for myself so it's apparent she put one for herself. She
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    shouts from the bed: can you make me an egg with some toast?
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    I'm pred because she was waking me up earlier than I wanted to get up by offering to do something I didn't want and something that I ended up doing
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    despite her volunteering. When she was in bed on her phone I didn't say "hey don't forget the eggs" because I'd feel like I was
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    bossing her around. And I don't think she did it as some ploy to get me to make her breakfast, I
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    think she genuinely intended to make it but got caught up doomscrolling.
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    AITA for wanting to ask her to not make me breakfast anymore? She means it as an act of love but it became a task of annoyance.
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    leftytrash161.5h ago NTA. My response to "why cant you just let me make you some eggs" would have been "because I'm clearly
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    not hungry. I was asleep. You woke me up to ask me this. Why would i want eggs while i was asleep?"
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    MybrotherisPsycho • 6h ago Why can't you let me make you something? "Because I don't want anything". Problem Solved
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    . BarbaraGenie • 5h ago Sounds like my FIRST husband. Him: do you want X? Me: no thanks, I want Y at the moment. Him: Are you
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    sure? Me: yes, but I appreciate you asking. Him: are you absolutely certain? Me: yes, I just want Y Him: how about A or B Me: no
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    thanks Him: hmmm, A or B sound good Me: (in desperation) ok. I'll take B Him: you're absolutely certain you don't want X or
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    A? Me: (thinking he really wants A). Ok, A Him: and you have really excluded X Me: (shouting) I DONT REALLY WANT ANYTHING
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    BUT Y!!!!!!! Him: why are you so mad? I was just trying to be nice. Me: 0 #%! #!!) #%! #%! #%!
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