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A woman has taken to Reddit to share the "ridiculous" expectations that her husband has for his birthday month, and the internet is shocked.
Posting to the discussion-based site on December 6, under the account name Change-Ad9635, she started by revealing her "husband is turning 30 next month" and he wanted to be "pampered" for his special occasion.
However, she then went on to explain that he has come up with a list, which he named "birthday month expectations," which details some of the stuff he wants to be able to do during the entire month.
The woman then lists examples of these, which includes not cooking, cleaning or doing "any type of chores."
He also wants to be able to "play with his Xbox for hours on end" and "not to pay his part of rent this month."
Additionally, the husband asks that "he gets to go out with his friends whenever he wants."
The final example of his demands is that "he gets to skip any given workday and sleep in without being bothered to wake up to drive our son to school or do any emergency fixes."
The mother finished by explaining she already pays the brunt of the bills and does the majority share of housework and childcare.
When she pushed back he told her she was being "selfish" and that she should be happy to do it because his "parents did this for him for years."
She ended the post by asking whether or not she was being unreasonable to not comply and revealing that as a result of arguing he has "been avoiding being near me making me feel like maybe I went too far here."
The story has gained lots of traction on Reddit, having received more than 12,400 upvotes and attracted over 2,650 comments, with many people outraged at the husband's actions.
One Redditor, Mofukin_Irisden, wrote: "Lol if I pulled that s**t on my wife I'd expect divorce papers for my birthday present."
Another person, Snakecatcher302 added: "If I pulled this on my wife I'd wanna divorce myself."
Big_****slap stated: "Genuinely curious why you're even with him, you work, do the house work and childcare... I mean you're basically a single mom. What does he bring to the table?"
RoseFyreFyre typed: "Yeah, no responsibilities for the actual day of your birthday is a reasonable ask—you can take one day off work, sleep in late, have your spouse responsible for all meals/childcare/domestic chores, go out with friends...
"But a whole month off? Not paying rent at all? That's completely absurd. Hell no."
Ladyughsalot1 opined: "A friendly reminder that forcing one's partner into domestic drudgery and the majority of childcare is abuse. It's not cute. It's not a common gender issue that we can brush off with 'heehee men!'"
RedoubtableSouth raged: "As an adult you don't get a "birthday month" (month!? what kind of spoiled entitled s**t is this?) or get to ignore your responsibilities for a month. His request is so unrealistic and out of touch with reality."
SorceryPointalism commented: "Not wanting to do chores or go to work is one (still unreasonable) thing, but my heart breaks at the thought of his child finding out that one of the things dad wanted most for his birthday was to not have to be a father."
