Sometimes the drama in a relationship doesn’t come from what actually happened; it comes from the story someone builds around it.
One person sees a can of soda. Someone else sees a threat. And in the middle is a guy who knows the truth, but is being pressured to act like something is wrong anyway.
This 42-year-old man hired a cleaning lady a few years ago, and she comes to his house every other week to help him out. This woman is one hard worker, and she’s super sweet. She’s close to his age and normally wears workout clothes when she’s at his place.
He trusts her implicitly, and she arrives when he’s at work. He says coming home to a clean house is pretty much the most incredible feeling, and he has a lot of appreciation for his cleaning lady.
He hardly ever sees his cleaning lady, and he sends her money through an e-transfer, so he doesn’t really interact with her in person at all.
“One time, she told me she drank a can of Pepsi from my fridge and even asked if she should pay me back. I told her she 100% has my permission to take a break and eat/drink whatever she needs while she’s here,” he explained.
“Since then, she’ll occasionally have a pop, a glass of juice, or, once, she said she had a piece of toast. She’s never helped herself to any meals, snacks, or anything beyond that.”
Earlier this week, his 38-year-old girlfriend was at his place when he wasn’t yet home, and she mentioned she watched his cleaning lady ‘steal’ soda out of his fridge.
He informed his girlfriend that his cleaning lady was not stealing from him, as he’s already given her permission to do that, and it’s not like this woman is kicking back and sitting down, acting lazy when he’s paying her to do a job.
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His girlfriend argued that his cleaning lady was being bizarre for doing this, and that she didn’t see how it was professional of her. She then insisted that what his cleaning lady did could cause her to cross a boundary in the future.
“I told her I’ve known this woman for two years and nothing like that has ever happened. GF thinks I should fire her before it ‘gets worse,'” he continued.
“Am I wrong for thinking: why change something that’s been working perfectly fine? Am I being weird?”
I’m afraid that his girlfriend is either insecure or somehow feels that she’s above his cleaning lady, and that’s where this is all coming from.
Regardless, his girlfriend is wrong, I think, because he already made the arrangement with his cleaning lady to allow her to go in his fridge, so it’s not like she was breaking a rule or being nosy.
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By Bre Avery Zacharski
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