Man Tells Wife She Can Only Use the Oven 'Twice a Week,' So She Threatens to Move Out

A female was shocked aft her hubby asked her to trim her oven usage.

The 33-year-old shared that she and her 34-year-old husband person been together for 8 years. While he is simply a "loving" and "kind" man, she says he has precocious developed immoderate "really weird habits that are driving maine up nan wall."

"He’s ever been willing successful tech and science, and he sometimes becomes enamored of peculiar notions," she explains. "A fewer months ago, he sewage obsessed pinch nan magnitude that energy was costing him and really 'wasteful' appliances are."

"He's taken a peculiar radiance to our oven," she continues. "He argues that to usage it much than doubly a week would beryllium 'irresponsible' for nan satellite and our bills."

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However, nan female notes that she "loves to cook," and that spending clip successful nan room is her "primary measurement to de-stress aft work."

"I for illustration to cook bread, roast vegetables, and trial caller recipes," she explains. "But now he gets irritated pinch maine if I usage nan oven immoderate clip different than his 'schedule.' He unplugs it erstwhile I'm not moreover expected to beryllium utilizing nan thing."

While she "laughed it disconnected astatine first and dismissed it arsenic a phase," he hasn't fto up.

"But past week, for instance, I was baking cookies for our kids' schoolhouse fundraiser, and erstwhile we were halfway through, he pulled nan plug connected nan batch, ruining 1 now that moreover he refused to eat and announced I'd 'already utilized up my oven quota for nan week,'" she continues. "I was livid."

She and her hubby past sewage into a "huge fight," and she fto him cognize that if he kept "policing" her cooking, she would move out. He told her that she was being "dramatic" and should "respect nan satellite more."

She told him that she would "honor nan satellite wherever it needs to beryllium honored," but he will not dictate erstwhile aliases what she cooks successful her ain home. While she reiterated that he is "such a awesome partner extracurricular of this," she feels for illustration she is "losing [her] mind" and turns to Reddit to spot if she is overreacting.

People successful nan comments conception reassured nan female that she wasn't successful nan incorrect and questioned her husband's abrupt shift.

"His behaviour is controlling, dictating erstwhile you tin usage your ain oven, and unplugging it mid-use crosses a superior boundary. It could besides awesome a intelligence wellness rumor aliases anxiety, and finances whitethorn beryllium portion of it," 1 personification wrote. "Sometimes, group fixate connected mini things, specified arsenic electricity, to consciousness successful power of their money aliases resources. If you person entree to your finances, you should look those over."

Another personification added, "Sounds for illustration very bizarre, circumstantial controlling behavior. I would show him that he needs to attraction connected himself and what he tin do to trim his ain c footprint and whatnot first and foremost, and that he can't expect you to springiness up your joyousness and hobby and not navigator nutrient aliases navigator erstwhile nan kids request it and excuse it pinch immoderate conception of 'respecting nan planet.' No wonderment you consciousness for illustration you're going crazy, he's inducing it successful you by being wholly unreasonable."