She Told Her Husband That He Couldn’t Just Take Three Days Off Of Work To Play A New Video Game, And He Hasn’t Been Speaking To Her Ever Since

Studio Romantic - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Studio Romantic - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

This 33-year-old woman is currently married, and for her 37-year-old husband’s past birthdays, she’s always gone “big.” She typically buys him expensive presents or plans fancy days out of the house for him.

However, for his birthday this year, he actually asked her not to do anything.

“I was a little disappointed,” she recalled.

“But he was a part of some of the recent tech layoffs, so I thought he was just making a sound financial decision, and I fully supported him.”

So, she pivoted the conversation and asked if he wanted to just go out to dinner or if there was anything small she could do for him on his birthday. Well, at that point, he revealed that there was a new video game expansion coming out the same day, and he asked if she could just leave him alone all day to play it.

She was fine with that, too, and actually made plans to take their 9-year-old child out on her husband’s birthday – leaving him all alone to enjoy playing his game.

Yet, even after that, her husband still approached her and asked if she’d be okay with him taking a few more days off from work. That way, he could keep playing the new video game.

She simply didn’t think that was a good idea, though, because her husband just started a brand-new job and doesn’t even have paid time off (PTO) yet.

“His schedule will be changing every six weeks or so, and the better he performs at work, the more likely he will be to get decent shifts. Taking this into consideration, I told him no,” she reasoned.

Studio Romantic – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

Still, her husband didn’t really accept her opinion and continued pestering her about it for three days. Then, just last night, she finally hit her breaking point and snapped at her husband.

She asked him why he even bothered consulting her about the idea if he wasn’t going to listen to her reasoning. And her husband replied by claiming he respected her opinion.

“I said it seemed excessive and that it wasn’t the best time,” she explained.

Nonetheless, her husband didn’t back down and asked if he could at least take one extra day off from work to play the video game.

Quite frankly, she was pretty fed up with her husband by then and ultimately told him to just do whatever he wanted.

This made him all angry and “huffy,” too, and ever since their argument, he hasn’t even been speaking to her.

So now, she’s been left wondering if telling her husband he can’t take three days off of work just to play a video game was so crazy or not.

Do you agree that taking three days off of work from a new job just to play a video game is irresponsible? How would you have handled this situation?

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Katharina Buczek graduated from Stony Brook University with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Digital Arts. Specializing ... More about Katharina Buczek

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