'He Isn't One of Your Children': Dad Slammed for Refusing to Do Laundry

A woman took her frustrations to the popular forum on Mumsnet "Am I Being Unreasonable" and said her husband does not seem to understand the amount of work that goes into doing their family's laundry.

In her post that garnered more than 100 responses, Cremant31 wrote that she is "cracking" under the weight of chores and finds herself "constantly" doing laundry. Although she broached the subject of asking her husband to do his own laundry, she said he became upset.

Readers took to the comments section, and many shared that she was entitled to her request.

According to Verywell Mind, couples may become stressed when there are unfinished chores.

"The biggest mistake you can make in your quest to have your partner do more chores around the house is to ask for help," the outlet reported. "Asking for help implies that the responsibility for the chores belongs to just you."

Instead, the article recommended that couples set priorities for household chores, agree to a chore schedule and check-in with one another to ensure everyone is on the same page about plans and errands.

"Despite several polite conversations with my husband, and him agreeing that he will do more, nothing changes," Cremant31 wrote in her post. "I don't think he realizes the effort that goes into washing, drying, sorting ironing clothes. Especially his work uniform!"

She said she asked her husband twice if he could wash his own clothes while she would wash her own clothes, their baby's clothes and the towels and bedding, but she said he became "sulky and upset."

"I'm going to broach it with him again this weekend," Cremant31 wrote. "FYI I am finishing maternity leave and back to work on Monday."

Many readers supported the Mumsnet user and said she was not unreasonable for wanting to split up the laundry.

"You absolutely should not be responsible for all of the washing," one commenter wrote. "He isn't one of your children. If I were you I would just stop washing his work uniform...either he does it or he wears smelly clothes to work?"

Another suggested that rather than asking her husband, Cremant31 should simply stop doing his laundry altogether.

"I mean you can throw some in whenever if there's room in the washing machine but don't go out of your way to wash them," they wrote. "And definitely don't iron and put them away."

A commenter shared that they stopped doing their own husband's laundry and said it was "liberating."

Though they wrote that it was difficult at first, they were able to adjust to the change.

Others were sympathetic to Cremant31 but recommended she should continue washing her husband's clothes but stop ironing them.

Some wondered what the breakdown of chores was between the couple and said it might be fair for her to stop doing his laundry if there is not an even split with the other household tasks.

"If you are both working equally then you need to split chores 50/50," opined a reader.

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