Pregnancy is a medical miracle that takes a massive physical toll on a woman’s body. Growing an entire human being from scratch is exhausting, painful, and deeply uncomfortable. Most partners understand this basic biological reality and do whatever it takes to make the nine months bearable. But one husband on Reddit recently achieved a breathtaking level of delusion by claiming he is experiencing the exact same level of hardship as his heavily pregnant wife simply because he has a day job.
The Original Poster is a twenty seven year old plumber who is married to a twenty nine year old engineer. The couple is financially comfortable and recently decided to expand their family by having a fourth child. You would assume a man on his fourth rodeo would know exactly how to support a pregnant partner. Instead, he took to the internet to complain that his wife becomes a complete nightmare every single time they are expecting a new baby.
His definition of a nightmare is truly laughable. He gripes about having to wake up to the sound of her puking her guts out every morning, acting as if her severe morning sickness is a personal attack on his sleep schedule. He also gets incredibly impatient when she demands he go to the store to fetch snacks or asks him to set up a foot bath for her badly swollen feet.
To justify his terrible attitude, the husband relies on a deeply flawed mathematical equation. Because his plumbing job is more physically demanding and requires longer hours than her engineering career, he genuinely believes they are putting an equal amount of effort into growing this baby. He completely ignores the undeniable fact that her body is working overtime twenty four hours a day to literally manufacture a new life.
The division of household labor is just as infuriating. The heavily pregnant wife is still handling all of the cooking and the dishes for their massive household, which includes a set of twins. The husband takes out the garbage, mows the lawn, and does the laundry. They even pay a professional cleaner to handle the floors and bathrooms on a weekly basis. Yet the husband still complains when his wife asks for help because he feels entitled to a full hour of uninterrupted video games every single day.
The situation is so dire that the mother in law had to step in. She regularly comes over to help manage the kids because she bluntly labeled her son in law as useless. The husband naturally resents her for this accurate observation, completely missing the irony that if he actually put his gaming controller down and helped clean the kitchen, his mother in law would not need to be there in the first place.
The ultimate breaking point happened right in the middle of the kitchen. The exhausted wife was trying to focus on cooking a homemade meatloaf for the family. She screamed at her husband to get off his a** and actually entertain their twins so she could finish making dinner in peace. Instead of simply wrangling his own children, the husband decided to play the comedian and made a snarky joke about how this was the third meatloaf they would be eating that week.
Unsurprisingly, the pregnant mother completely lost her sh!t. She rightfully ripped into him and pointed out his absolute lack of sympathy for her physical condition. She demanded he take on more of her household chores since he is physically incapable of breastfeeding or carrying the baby himself.
Instead of apologizing and taking the kids, the husband doubled down with the most ignorant comeback in marital history. He reminded her about his plumbing schedule and explicitly told her that because he works more hours, they are basically both pregnant. The sheer audacity of a man comparing his plumbing shift to the physical trauma of human gestation is absolutely mind boggling. The wife instantly went completely quiet and hit him with the silent treatment, refusing to speak to him about anything other than the kids.
The husband later added a few desperate edits to defend his horrific behavior. He proudly noted that he does set up the annoying foot bath and puts the kids to bed while she relaxes and watches YouTube. He also blamed her for making the repeated meatloaf, claiming she is picky and refuses to eat his cooking because she grew up in Southeast Asia and dislikes American food. It turns out the meal in question was actually a Korean BBQ meatloaf.
But the absolute best update of all is that the wife inevitably found his viral Reddit post, read the brutal comments, and immediately demanded they start couples counseling. It is safe to say his daily hour of video game time is officially over, and the internet could not be happier for her.