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Working all but boxing day and I'll still be expected to cook

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Mardy45 · 26/12/2025 06:32

Care worker here, worked Xmas, and working all sat and sun today is only day off yet partner will still expect a Sunday dinner style meal and won't enter his head to cook it🤔
Not working or anything this week, managed to get away with takeaways Xmas eve👀😊,
Hate been a female!!, happy I've cheated, ready made yorkshire puds mash to microwave and pre cut veg😂😂😂😂, knackered and wondering when my me day is😁

OP posts:
DelphiniumBlue · 26/12/2025 18:19

Well, he can expect all he wants, it doesn't mean you have to do it.
Maybe set up a few expectations of your own, like not cooking on Boxing Day if you've already done Xmas dinner, like having 2 clear days off in the week if you are working at the weekend. `By 'days off,' I mean relaxing and doing what you want.

rainbowsparkle28 · 26/12/2025 18:20

“Hate been a female!!”
This has nothing to do with being female and has everything to do with your partner being a waste of space man child 🙄 Don’t do it and let them get on with it. But even more so, what do you see in someone like this and why are you with them?! 🤯

Brefugee · 26/12/2025 18:21

Mardy45 · 26/12/2025 06:32

Care worker here, worked Xmas, and working all sat and sun today is only day off yet partner will still expect a Sunday dinner style meal and won't enter his head to cook it🤔
Not working or anything this week, managed to get away with takeaways Xmas eve👀😊,
Hate been a female!!, happy I've cheated, ready made yorkshire puds mash to microwave and pre cut veg😂😂😂😂, knackered and wondering when my me day is😁

More fool you.

Being in possession of a vagina doesn't make you responsible for all domestic tasks.

Make 2026 the year when you stop being so dilly.

Juneclaire · 26/12/2025 18:23

If you make yourself into a doormat, don't be surprised when people wipe their feet on you.

TeideHeart · 26/12/2025 18:24

It doesn't enter your partner's head to do it in the same way it never enters your head to not do it.

Mardy45 · 26/12/2025 18:29

I cooked and decided as I had he would wash up and I have left afew small jobs for him over the weekend!

OP posts:
TeideHeart · 26/12/2025 18:31

Mardy45 · 26/12/2025 18:29

I cooked and decided as I had he would wash up and I have left afew small jobs for him over the weekend!

Whoo

🙄

Cherrytree86 · 26/12/2025 19:22

@Mardy45

why are you being such a martyr, OP??

RessicaJabbit · 26/12/2025 19:23

Mardy45 · 26/12/2025 18:29

I cooked and decided as I had he would wash up and I have left afew small jobs for him over the weekend!

Okay...

Why didn't you just say to him " I've got one day off, you can sort Christmas dinner this year"

mathanxiety · 26/12/2025 21:37

Hate having a useless, entitled lump of a male partner!!

Fixed that for you.

DaisyChain505 · 26/12/2025 21:50

You could be expected to do something and not do it.

Don’t be a martyr and start having a backbone.

People sit back in life and let people like you do everything because they can.

Summerhillsquare · 26/12/2025 22:22

HoppingPavlova · 26/12/2025 06:43

Hate been a female!!

No idea what you are on about. Being female does not mean you are the only person allowed in a kitchen, you seem to have very odd thought processes

You know exactly what she is on about

Charel2girl5 · 26/12/2025 22:30

I genuinely don’t understand this crap. Get rid OP he’s a twat of the highest order.

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