In recent months, there's been a spike in discussion among relationship advice circles about a phenomenon known as performed or weaponized incompetence.
This refers to a pattern of behavior in which one romantic partner will exaggerate their own failures to do household chores in the hopes that the other will do them instead. If someone shows this pattern for long enough, the idea is that their partner won't even bother asking them for help.
But while this strategy has often worked for years in the past, it seems that a lot more people are starting to get wise to it.
Yet when calling out this behavior wasn't enough in one woman's case, she had an unusual way of taking things a step further.