A person writing on Reddit is pouting because his live-in girlfriend won’t do his laundry.
But not only any variety of laundry.
She has apparently refused to clean his underwear, based on the comment he shared on Reddit — and he cannot understand this dramatic development.
Not only had she been doing all of his laundry prior to now, but before that, when he lived at home, his mother had been washing his clothes, he said.
The post, as of publication time, has received over 1,500 comments and nearly 3,000 votes (either “upvotes” or “downvotes”) on Reddit.
Writing on the subreddit generally known as “AITA” (“Am I the a–hole”), the person, who described himself as 32 years old, said he and his girlfriend, 28, “have been living together for 4 years now.”
He noted, “She works from home since COVID more often than not, but sometimes does go into the office. I am going to my office each day.”
He went on, “My girlfriend has all the time done our laundry together and never had an issue with it for all these years. Since she works from home, she takes care of a number of the house responsibilities.”
He added quickly, “But I do help out, where I can, once I get back from work — although she often refuses my offers with reasons like I should wash my hands higher.”
The person said, “I do wash my hands, though.”
He then described the drama happening at home: “Currently she has began separating my undergarments … from the laundry pile and never washing them when she had no trouble doing that prior to now.”
The lady apparently claimed that his underwear would “contaminate her clothes” and he or she’d moderately he wash them “myself in a separate load.”
The boyfriend then “suggested we do all our undergarments in a unique load, and he or she said no because hers are cleaner and that may be worse.”
The person went on, “She got pretty mad and made some nasty comments about my hygiene.”
The post then further descended into some sordid details about body parts and clothing.
Wrote the boyfriend, “I get pretty annoyed at being treated like I’m disgusting once I am not. I lived with my mom before [living with the girlfriend].”
He added that his mom “did my laundry and never said my boxers were dirty.”
The person added this threat about his girlfriend: “I said if she keeps doing this, I’ll stop buying the groceries she keeps telling me to bring [home] on my commute from work, and she will try this herself.”
He asked others if he was fallacious for the way in which he’s feeling and acting.
One commenter directly addressed the Reddit poster: “Since she works from home, it seems like your assumption [is] that she should do all of the chores since you brought up chores so repeatedly.”
The identical commenter added that too many individuals think that those that work at home “just sit around doing nothing all day.”
Wrote one other Reddit commenter, “Because I work at home, I’m on Zoom calls very often and sometimes at a moment’s notice. And have strict deadlines to keep on with.”
This same commenter added, “I all the time tell my husband to expect me to do nothing throughout the day. If I do get to laundry or dishes, that’s great — but nobody should expect someone working from home to be doing chores during their workday.”
Wrote one other person, “The [girlfriend] is a saint. Did she possibly have a medical condition that recently cleared up and now can smell him? Because that’s just about the one reason why she didn’t run for the hills immediately. Yuk!”
Wrote still one other person, “Obviously you’re [the a—–e] and may determine what’s happening along with your hygiene.”
Clinical psychologist Dr. Jayme Albin of Recent York City offered skilled comment on the fight on the house front.
“There are specific topics which might be very sensitive to individuals — hygiene, body shape, size and appearance are some very significant ones,” she told Fox News Digital via email.
“It’s obvious that these two [people] will not be communicating their feelings and wishes properly and accepting responsibility for their very own actions.”
Added Albin, “The girlfriend ought to be a bit of more sensitive in how she’s communicating information. Moderately than simply telling the boyfriend [that] she refuses to do certain things, she must have a transparent, direct conversation with him that takes his feelings into consideration.”
Albin noted as well, “That being said, the boyfriend needs to understand his girlfriend just isn’t his mommy — and there are some things a mother will put up with, but not a partner. Poor hygiene is one in every of them.”