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A post has gone viral on Reddit after a woman shared her husband's request that she not only continue making lunch for him every day but that she also pack meals for his five colleagues once a week.
Redditor u/ThrowAITApackedlunch wrote about the unusual request on the subreddit "Am I The As**ole" in a post that has been voted on over 11,000 times in the first 10 hours.
The Redditor explains that she loves cooking for her husband and packing his lunch is a way in which she shows affection. To do so, though, she wakes up "quite early" to get it done.
She writes that her husband's coworkers, including a manager, caught to her good cooking, and without her knowledge, her husband offered for her to cook for them, too. She said her husband thought it could help him get a better position at work.
"When he came back home and told me I was quite disappointed because even though I love making lunches for him, for his colleagues (people I dont even know) it seemed exhausting. Moreover it is not just for one person which he initially had me believed but rather 5 OF HIS COLLEAGUES," she wrote.
She said she tried it out one morning, and in order to do so, had to wake up around 3:30 a.m. and was almost late for her own job, which starts at 8 a.m.
"It was not a pleasant experience," she wrote.
There can be many reasons people choose to pack lunches for work. Reasons vary from convenience to quality of food to saving money. According to a 2015 survey conducted by Visa, Americans spend on average $2,746 on lunch each year or $53 per week. The survey also found that men tend to outspend women by 60 percent and are more likely to dine out.
The Redditor wrote that after one day of packing the six lunches—"green curry, tom yum flavored wings, prawn fritters and thai fried rice"—her husband suggested it become a weekly occurrence where each week she makes a meal from a new cuisine.
"Although that may seem 'easy' I don't want to do it anymore," she wrote. "I do like sharing the food I make but I don't want it to feel like a chore."
She said her husband thinks she is being unreasonable because he believes the move will help him go further at work and she's "just being lazy."
"I just find it pretentious that he has to depend on the food I make for a promotion, I am sure that he can get a promotion by his own merit because he is a very smart and accomplished man himself," she wrote.
Commenters backed the woman and slammed her husband for his "outrageous" behavior.
"NTA I want you to know that your husband's behaviour is completely outrageous. He is being amazingly unreasonable here. Do NOT give in, you are not his bloody personal chef," one commenter wrote.
"NTA. Where are their wives?! Better yet, they're grown a** men! They can make their own damn lunch!" another wrote.
The Redditor engaged with some commenters by responding to their takes on the situation.
One commenter asked what the Redditor's husband did before they were married. The Redditor explained that he lived with his mother and if she didn't cook they would order takeout.
She explains in another response that cooking for just her husband can take an hour or two.
Another commenter added that in addition to it being a "[sh**ty]" way to treat his spouse, the Redditor's husband is also "a fool" for thinking this act could help him move up the ladder at work.
It's certainly not the first time a relationship faux-pas has gone viral on the internet.
Another Reddit post went viral after a man claimed that his girlfriend secretly moved her "leech" sister into their home. And one young married couple's first dance didn't quite go as planned, but sure made for good memories. On the other hand, one wedding speech got the groom's sister kicked out after she made a joke about her brother's affair.
Newsweek contacted u/ThrowAITApackedlunch for comment but she did not respond in time for publication.
