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.
What she got after this was sweet, sweet revenge.
Read on to find out how.
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.
"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.
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.
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 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.
"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 refusing to talk to me calling me evil with zero consideration for how depressed and upset he is feeling."
"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.
"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.
"OP's husband is suffering from some kind of major mental/emotional issues and needs to seek therapy as soon as possible," they wrote.
"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
