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AITA for telling my husband to pay me for my labour or hire someone else?

Anonymous in /c/AmItheAsshole

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I (36F) am a SAHM to our two boys (5 &amp; 3). I also own a small bakery business. I currently sell online and at the local farmers market. Previously I had a small shop in our street but I closed it down as the rent was too expensive.<br><br>My husband (39M) is in charge of the building projects inside and outside of our home. The latest projects are the attic for the boys, the patio for us and the greenhouse for my business. He does it on his own. He usually does projects which include the whole house.<br><br>Two weeks ago he was making new closets for himself and I. When I asked about mine (which he promised to make in time for Christmas), he said that he will do mine once he finished his. I ask why I should wait and his answer was that he's doing everything else in the house so the least I could do was wait for my turn. He took a week off from his job to do these projects and the closets are the only thing he managed to finish. <br><br>He's been in charge of the projects in our house and every time I ask for something it takes a lot of time to be done. So I told him that I will ask my friend's husband to build the new pantry and the closets for me. It was at this that he exploded at me and told me that he's doing everything around the house by himself and that I could at least give him the respect by not asking someone else to do what he promised. He also told me to stop comparing him with other men.<br><br>My answer was that I will stop comparing once he stops comparing himself with other men. I reminded him that I pay him for his services since that's his way of calculating how much he should be paid for each project. He actually told me that he wasn't gonna do anything else until he was paid which outraged me and I told him that I was gonna ask my friend's husband and pay him to do the projects I wanted. He said that if I pay someone else I was gonna pay him for everything he's done in the house and that I should get ready for the bill.<br><br>I work 12 hours a day and I do everything for our family to be comfortable. I understood that he needed to take a break from his work and do something for himself but he has to remember that I am human too and I wanted time and effort to be put into things I wanted. I also never asked for anything from him, not even when we needed to change the bathroom sink. The reason I asked now was because the pantry and the closets were already in the plan when he took his week off.<br><br>Now he's angry and tells everyone that I want to replace him with someone else because I think he's useless. I don't, I just want him to treat me like a human being.<br><br>AITA?

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