Everything that my husband has to do around here, he pays other people to do for him. So there are guys who come to mow the grass and weed around the house. He’s no plumber, so when we have plumbing work, someone comes in to fix things. So in this house, he barely touches a thing.

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I bought a washing machine some time ago. It’s a secondhand machine, and I can barely get it to work twice in a row. Everyday problems. My husband came to see me struggling with it, and all he said was, “Can’t you ignore this thing and wash with your hands? Why are you a wife if you can’t do a simple thing like washing with your hands?”

This statement has been haunting me for days. Now, I judge everything that happens around this house through the filter of that statement. I do all the cleaning because what’s my use as a wife if I can’t clean? I do the cooking, even the late-night meals, because what’s my use as a wife if I can’t do that?

Honestly, I’ve started despising him, especially when I gave him the opportunity to correct his words, and he instead repeated the same thing to me. He married me because that’s all the use he sees in me—someone who does the manual jobs to make his life comfortable.

He doesn’t read the room; he would have known all is not well because I hardly talk to him in a fluid manner. One-word responses, and I’m gone. When I’m working and he’s sitting idle, I work at my own pace. When he asks for food, I tell him I’ll prepare it when I’m done cleaning, and these days, cleaning takes all day.

I Was Fine Until I Was Alone In My Room

I don’t know how long this is going to go on, but I hope he realizes the change in me and amends his ways. Else, he’ll have to learn to cook for himself or starve.

—Fidelis

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