He Asked His Girlfriend To Start Making Him Breakfast Every Morning Since She Is A Morning Person, But He Refused To Trade-Off The Responsibility, And Now They Are In A Big Fight
This twenty-seven-year-old man has been living with his girlfriend, who is twenty-nine, for several months now.
And according to him, things have been going really well. He plans to propose to her soon and, down the line, hopes to have at least a couple of children with her.
Recently, though, the pair have run into an issue– and it involves their morning routines.
His girlfriend is apparently a total morning person, whereas he despises mornings with his entire heart.
So, by the time he actually wrestles himself out of bed to get into the shower, his girlfriend is usually always up about thirty minutes before him.
“Even though she has to be at work later than I do,” he said.
His girlfriend does not just wake up and get ready, though. Instead, she always prepares a massive breakfast spread because she is a big breakfast person.
Her typical meal consists of eggs, either pancakes or French toast, breakfast potatoes or hashbrowns, and bacon or sausage.
Plus, on the weekends, she breaks out some steak or ham.
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“She eats almost nothing for lunch and usually has a small-ish dinner. But she loves a huge breakfast,” he noted.
He, on the other hand, normally just has a bowl of cold cereal for breakfast. Or, whenever he is feeling very ambitious, he will heat up some instant oatmeal and pour himself a glass of orange juice.
After all, he claims he only starts to come alive when he is halfway through his second cup of coffee. So, cooking himself an entire meal is never something he really wants to do.
Obviously, though, his girlfriend has proved that she is always up to the breakfast challenge, and he wanted to capitalize on that.
So, he recently asked if she would be willing to start cooking breakfast for him, too.
But then, his girlfriend asked if he would ever step in and make breakfast for her, also. That way, there would be a trade-off of the responsibility.
He basically just told his girlfriend no, though, and “reminded” her that he often cooks dinner for her already. Still, to his shock, his girlfriend refused.
She believes that since they already trade off cooking dinner, they should also divide up the labor of breakfast. But, he claims it would be impossible for him to make that happen.
“I told her that there is no way I will ever be able to muster that kind of energy first thing in the morning, but that since she obviously can, she should just make me breakfast, too,” he explained.
“I said that it would take next to no extra effort on her part to throw in a couple more eggs, strips of bacon, an extra portion of hashbrowns, etc since she is already doing it for herself anyway.”
Well, his girlfriend did not agree with that at all, and his request actually landed him in really hot water.
They have been in a fight ever since, in which his girlfriend believes that it was unfair of him to expect her to think of him in the morning since he never does the same for her.
So now, he has been left wondering if asking his girlfriend to start making him breakfast every morning and admitting he would never do it for her was a jerky thing to do.
Do you think making additional meal portions really requires “no extra effort,” as he claims? Was it fair of his girlfriend to ask that he also pitch in for breakfast sometimes or not? If you were in his shoes, would you have handled this situation the same way?
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