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The best posts on r/AmItheA–hole are the ones that seem outrageously fake, and then the comments are filled with people who say they’ve actually been in a similar situation. The Redditor who wrote this tale is one of these, and they’re using the name “u/oldcaca101” for extra points.
The post is titled, “AITA for telling my wife to f–k off after she was bragging about her promotion at work ?”
The OP claims he has been married to his wife for three years. She works in a bank and he was laid off from his job as a web designer a month ago. He’s been looking for a new job, to no avail.
“I’ve sent CVs but I never got any response and it’s making me very unhappy and kinda hopeless,” he writes.
His wife, on the other hand just got promoted as a manager at her bank:
She came home one day and decided to rub it in my face. She started bragging about it. At first when she was bragging, I didn’t really react. I didn’t act all excited and cheery. I just said: k good for you. After that, she looked at me like I was crazy and said, aren’t you happy ? I don’t get any congratulations or anything? I responded by saying: it’s your win, not mine. She responded by saying: it’s not only my win, it’s our win, wake up ! That line really pissed me off and I told her: it’s not my win ! It’s yours. I get it ! You had your f–king promotion, good for you ! What do you want me to say ? You want me to act excited like this is something special ?? Why don’t you f–k off ! She argued back saying: what the hell is wrong with you ? After that I just walked away.
I’m in a sh–ty situation and the last thing I need is someone bragging about their success to my face. I talk to my best friend about that and he agreed that my wife thinks she is cooler then me and she something special. Like she is superior then me.
Am I an a–hole for the way I reacted ? Or am I an a–hole for not even reacting at first ?
The people who believed this story and that this was a man mature enough to be married instead of a teenager desperate for online engagement definitely think he is an a–hole. Who gets mad at their partner for making lots of money and supporting them?
Of course, there were a lot of people in the comments who thought the post was fake. But in a twist, there were also lots and lots of people who basically said that they had dated or known men exactly like this, men who got worked up and negative about their female partner’s success:
But this is still my favorite comment:
If it is real, the OP should know that if people think you sound like a kid when you complain about your wife, you’re definitely the a–hole.
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