A relationship is built on a lot of things: trust, open communication, and respect.
It’s not built on lies , deceit, or going behind each other’s back. Sadly, that’s what one husband did when he sold his wife’s antique tea set.
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What she got after this was sweet, sweet revenge.
Read on to find out how.
This jaded wife took her story to Reddit’s “Am I The Asshole” (AITA) commiunity.
There, she explained that she and her husband have been struggling with money for years.
Both work minimum wage jobs: she works at a hair salon, while he works at a gas station. This makes it difficult to cover rent and other expenses.
Recently, she found out that the antique tea set that her grandmother gifted her was gone.
“My husband admitted selling it for $300+ to be able to buy a gaming chair for his nephew who’s recovering cancer patient,” she wrote. As the tea set was priceless to her, she was understandably upset.
“Now if he was selling it to pay off debts or rent then maybe but a gaming chair? No, not okay,” she wrote.
He justified his decision by saying that she never used the tea set, he promised his nephew he would award him for defeating cancer, and he had plans to buy her a better, modern tea set.
She wasn’t sold: “I refused to accept that it was gone and let go of it.”
When she contacted the buyer, he told her she had to pay $450 to get it back. So she sold the only thing her husband had that was worth money: his Xbox.
“I got $400 and borrowed the $50 dollars from my sister,” she shared.
“I paid off the buyer and he brought back the tea set.” When her husband found out, he was upset and asked how she could do this to him. She explained that it was a fair trade for him selling her antique tea set.
When he said again that he would buy a better set, she insisted that her grandmother’s tea set is priceless because of the sentimental value.
“He blew up calling me childish and that I should’ve sold his Xbox the only thing keeping him entertained in these awful times.”
He’s been sulking ever since, saying that he’s the one who got screwed over since she got her tea set back, the buyer made $150, and he lost his Xbox forever.
“He’s refusing to talk to me calling me evil with zero consideration for how depressed and upset he is feeling.”
When she pondered if she was wrong for selling his Xbox, the AITA community swiftly let her know otherwise.
“I was gonna say ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ but then I read he did this to fulfil a promise HE made to buy someone a gaming chair,” one Redditor wrote.
“He wrote a cheque(/check) his [expletive] couldn’t cash,” they continued on, writing that selling her tea set was heartless.
“It belonged to your deceased grandma and it’s irreplaceable and sentimental to you,” another wrote. One person even wrote that the husband has more issues than just selling his wife’s tea set.
This includes making promises he can’t fulfill, going behind his wife’s back, and pitching a fit when the same thing was done to him.
“OP’s husband is suffering from some kind of major mental/emotional issues and needs to seek therapy as soon as possible,” they wrote.
Some Redditors even recommended the wife leave the husband.
“ESH. This is a tit for tat style of communication. It doesn’t sound like either one of you are happy in that kind of marriage,” one wrote. Many also agreed that revenge doesn’t work well in marriages.
H/T: Reddit
