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AITAH for laughing when my (30F) boyfriend (32M) boiled a whole head of broccoli?
My boyfriend was supposed to cook dinner tonight: pan-fried potatoes, fish, and boiled broccoli with lemon juice, olive oil, and garlic. The thing is, he almost never cooks—except when I’m not home. And even then it’s usually just fried potatoes or quesadillas.
I don’t know how we ended up here, but we’ve been together for 7 years and we have an almost 2-year-old. I do pretty much all the cooking and grocery shopping. If I say I don’t feel like cooking, his solution is usually to order takeout. I’ve told him many times that I feel like I carry more of the day-to-day household responsibilities, especially the ongoing tasks like laundry, cooking, groceries, etc. He always says he does a lot too, mainly things like tidying up.
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Cooking is not hard if you have some amount of patience. Putting together a meal can be simple, and it's on you to put in the effort. You can't let “being bad at it” keep you from helping your family. This is called weaponized incompetence, and it's not a good look. But that's what the boyfriend in this story was doing, and he wanted to rely on his girlfriend to do all of the heavy lifting. This will obviously get old after a while, and it did.
What really bothers me is what feels like his lack of independence. One time I was helping a friend move, and we were having guests over that afternoon. He wanted to make something using a recipe, but he kept calling me every few minutes asking where things were or how to do something.
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Sometimes you can't help but laugh. When things are absurd, then you're probably going to let it slip. And that's what this woman did when her husband did something pretty baffling. She couldn't stop herself from expressing her disbelief. But her boyfriend wasn't so happy with that. He felt pretty disrespected, and wasn't going to let her walk all over his efforts. But she didn't think that she was doing anything wrong. Keep reading to see what unfolded here, and then let us know in the comments what you would have done.
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Tonight he was cooking and asked me how long the broccoli should boil and how to cook the fish. I told him to just look it up because I didn’t know off the top of my head either. At one point I lifted the lid off the pot and saw that he had put an entire head of broccoli in there without cutting it up. I laughed because it looked ridiculous, but I also felt myself getting irritated. He got angry and said I was making fun of him. AITAH for laughing?
EDIT: I wasn’t full-on laughing at him, just a little laugh or chuckle. I laughed because I wasn’t expecting to find a whole broccoli in a pan when I lifted the lid. After that chuckle, the irritation came.
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