Woman Takes $20 From Husband’s Pockets, Asks If She’s The A-Hole

“AITA for keeping husband’s money?”

If the title is any indication, we're in for a controversial one. 

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“Me and my husband work at the same company but in different departments. We work the same days and close to the same hours (Swing Shift).”

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A woman took to Reddit asking if she was wrong for taking her husband's money. With the two of them working at the same company, household chores were split down the middle.

“So a couple of weeks ago my husband decided to pick up an extra shift on what is our normal off day.”

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After taking on an extra day off work, the husband realised, his uniform wasn't quite ready for wear the next morning. 

“Not realizing that until 2:50 AM he didn’t have a clean uniform to wear to work on what is supposed to be our off day, so I get up and go do the laundry(my household chore, we split the housework).”

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The wife headed to do his laundry at 3am in the night and came upon the $20 heard around the world.

“As I’m checking pockets I find $20 in his work pants that he was missing the day before.”

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She wondered if keeping the money would be wrong. Perhaps as payment for doing an extra load of laundry at 3am in the night.  

“Would I be wrong to keep it being I’m up doing laundry this late because HE needs a uniform, and didn’t remind me earlier in the day?”

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She further added that the said husband was sitting on the couch playing video games. 

“ETA: he was playing video games on the couch in the living room while I was sleeping so he woke me to do this. And he was only missing the $10 bill not the five and five ones”

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The fury of Reddit really came down hard on our OP.

“YTA

because DUHHHHHHHHH you can't steal from someone you love because you're bitter they asked you for a favor

why do people even have loved ones if they get annoyed when they lean on them?

and also, y'know...being a THIEF is trashy as fuck”

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“YTA

You need to improve your relationship with this man because this marriage doesn't sound healthy at all.”

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“YTA why hide that from him. You could have told him you found the 20 and are keeping it bc you are doing laundry, what you did is weird. Also is he a kid or why can't he do the laundry himself for this one time

It's wild to me that $20 is considered yours or his, rather than shared money; that your husband can't do a single load of laundry on demand; and that this issue is big enough to warrant going to reddit for feedback."

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Others took a more tempered approach realising the fault on both sides.

"ESH, and it really looks like your marriage isn't working with the level of resentment contextually suggested here.”

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“YTA

If you didn't want to do his laundry, you should've just said so. Stealing HIS money is beyond rational. If my bf did that, I honestly would be so disappointed and slightly disturbed.”

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Some changed their mind after seeing the edit.

“Lol. You're supposed to be a team. He forgot about the uniform so it's his responsibility to clean it on this occasion, regardless of who usually takes care of laundry, since it was so late. But it's a dick move to actively steal money from your partner. Again, you're a team.

ETA: Whoa there! I just saw your edit. He WOKE YOU UP TO CLEAN HIS UNIFORM?! Whilst casually sitting playing video games? You know what, NTA. Keep his cash. And for the love of God install some boundaries.”

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But others were still not so convinced.

“OP was getting hammered by YTA votes so made the edit to garner more sympathy.”

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“Do you guys…like each other?”

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“I'd say YTA if he already knew he lost it and was wondering where it was. I can understand you being upset about getting up in the middle of the night but the favours we do for our partners shouldn't be transactional.”

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