“YTA for presenting this as being about equal labor when it’s really about football,” one comment began. “You seem to think that her midweek child free day to clean the whole entire house entitles you to a child free day to sit on your back side watching TV. All you are proving here is how little respect you have for the things she does to keep the household running smoothly. You seem to feel like it’s not real work. Get earbuds and stream the game to your phone while you work, if it’s that important to you. Or hire a lawn care service.”
“Esh, none of that is as hard as you’re making it out to be,” another person commented. “Unless you’re using an old timet roller mower, mowing the lawn is walking around your yard. Do you know what I learned when I moved out? How much my dad exaggerated how hard his tasks were.”
Someone else commented: “I can’t make a solid call on who is the AH here but it really sounds like OP thinks that his wife that spending her day off doing a ton of house work (laundry, dishes, shopping and presumably things like vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, meal prep) actually somehow qualifies as her spending her day ‘relaxing’ and ‘having free time’ just because she is not doing the yard work. That really strikes me as not valuing her labour which would make OP an AH. Also why does OP ‘have’ to wait til the weekend to do the ‘hard yard work’ I have worked M-F 40 hour week jobs and I still had time after work to run around with the mower or rake leaves or weed the garden.”