Wife's new "sales" job made no profit in 9 months of working, husband fed up when she also refuses to contribute to the household, he seeks advice from the internet

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Oct 13, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

It's hard to believe someone when your instincts tell you something else. For the husband in this story, his gut feeling is dissociated from what his wife is trying to convince him of. It all started about 9 months ago when his wife took a work from home "sales" job, only to have made no profit in 9 months. Besides the skepticism he has about the finances, to add insult to injury she's also refusing to contribute to the normal household chores as a wife and mother, refusing to do laundry or clean up. She's always hiding herself in a locked room "working," so it begs the question, where's the profit?

In actuality, she probably has the best intentions for her family, but just got swept up in a money scheme she should never have been apart of. I can empathize with the husband feeling like he's torn between wanting to be her biggest cheerleader, while also being weary. 

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    Wife has been working in “sales” 100% commission for the past 9 months. She hasn’t made a penny.

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    Title sums up the situation. She spends 6-7 hours a day and demands to be uninterrupted in
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    her home office. We have 3 kids and I work full time paying for everything, getting off work at
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    noon. So as soon am I'm home she's MIA until dinner time. It's really starting to piss me off
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    because she has literally not made a single penny and she even has to spend money to buy
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    Frustrated husband
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    her own leads. I wouldn't care if she didn't have a job at all and was just a stay at home mother.
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    It's the hiding in her office or too busy to do any chores or spend time with the family while
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    listening to "agent academy" or other motivational lectures from team leaders. She claims I don't
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    support her. I did at first but it's very difficult after 9 months with literally negative profit. AITA for complaining about this?
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    DaftDeft Wait is she into an MLM? Forget asshole or not, you need to get her the fuck out if she is.
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    Accomplished_Pea... Working at McDonalds is more profitable and at least she can bring home a happy meal.
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    PaleozoicQueen This sounds like an MLM, what is the name of her "employer"?
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    InstructionEarly 1969 NTA. But if she wont listen to you, you need to stop funding her and move any
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    joint money into a separate account. She is getting scammed, and if she refuses
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    to acknowledge it, she will drag you both into a financial crisis
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    jrm1102 You need to talk to her about this.
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    I mean shes clearly getting scammed.
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    One Violinist7862 NTA. She's being scammed. Something she should've figured out by this point. It's been long enough.
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    thesqrtofminusone 9 months and not made a penny? Something is off there
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