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AITA for checking my daughters’ bags after my husband packed them and now he’s mad at me?

Anonymous in /c/AmItheAsshole

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I (f36) have 2 daughters (f15 and f11). We are going on holiday for a week and my husband (m38) was the one to pack their bags. I asked him to because he was off work today and I wasn’t so I could save my annual leave for the holiday. <br><br>I got home and he had finished packing but I opened the bags to double check that he hadn’t forgotten anything and he got mad and said that I made him feel like I don’t even trust him to pack two bags which is the least he could do when I was the one who organises absolutely everything for the family. He also said I was doing one of my ‘special mum activities’ again, I asked what he means and he said that I go out of my way to be involved in anything I can to be seen as a perfect mum. <br><br>I asked him if he had put in all the clothes that I had laid out but he said that he got fed up waiting for me to get home to check the bags so he went for a few beers with his friends. It’s not a big deal that he went for beers, but I was upset that he didn’t bother to put the clothes in that I had laid out, or the girls tablet, eye mask and ear plugs. If he’d been considerate enough to pack those then I wouldn’t have had a problem that he’d gone for beers. <br><br>I hear him talking to his friends and family about what a perfect wife and mum I am because I do so much for my family and I’m not trying to be perfect but I just want to make sure my family is happy and comfortable. I also don’t think it’s an insult to be seen as a good mum, it’s something that I would like to be seen as because I want the best for my daughters. So to hear him say that I’m trying to look good by doing things that he views as unnecessary is just really confusing to me and I don’t know if I’m just overreacting.

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