21 Wild Examples Of Weaponized Incompetence That Married Women Have Had To Deal With

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“Oh boy, my ex-husband was a master at this. One of the most infuriating examples is when I was heavily pregnant with our daughter. I was super nauseous and sensitive to smells the whole pregnancy, so I asked him to clean the bathroom for the first time in our whole relationship (he just refused to clean anything). When I went to use the bathroom, I noticed it smelled worse than before, and the toilet was blue. I don’t have any blue bathroom cleaner. It turns out he used the toilet brush on the inside of the bowl and then proceeded to clean the entire toilet with THE SAME BRUSH HE USED ON THE BOWL. He didn’t even wipe the toilet off with a rag; he just left the nastiness on there to dry. The whole toilet was blue and sticky and smelled.”

“When I confronted him about this, he said, ‘If I’m gonna clean, I’m gonna clean my way.’ So, of course, I just did it again myself. As I’m cleaning, he was standing over me watching and said, ‘I’m gonna tell your mom to tell you not to use these chemicals while you’re pregnant.’ Yeah, we’re divorced now. After I had my daughter, I couldn’t stand the weaponized incompetence anymore; it only got worse after she was born, as you can imagine. Life is much easier now.”

—Anonymous, 35 Colorado