A 33-year-old man on Reddit has threatened to divorce his wife of four years, Steph, 32, if she doesn’t start pulling her weight around the house as a stay-at-home wife, claiming she has been “incredibly inconsistent with household labor” ever since they got married.

“I work a physically demanding job, and it would really help if Steph could at least cook dinner more than once or twice a week. Instead, she sits at the dinner table, hunched over her phone for hours a day. She’s completely addicted to it, but she refuses to even have a conversation about this,” he began.

His frustrations with what he views as his wife’s lazy behavior came to a boiling point recently when he was gearing up for a work trip.

“Three weeks ago, I was about to depart for two weeks on [a work trip]. At around 10AM, I texted Steph and said that time was tight, but I’d be home at 12:30 to pick up my luggage. I asked her if she would make me something for lunch and she agreed to do so. I emphasized that I had about 10 minutes to stuff my face and then get to the airport,” the man recalled. 

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Despite his wife assuring him that she would have food ready for him when he returned home, “she had done literally nothing.”

“Steph stood up in a panic and said she’d start making me lunch, but I told her that it was pointless. She sheepishly apologized, and I responded, ‘Don’t say sorry. Just be less f—ing useless.’ This made her very upset. I just picked up my luggage, left, and went to the airport. I did manage to pick up some food at the airport, but I really would have liked a home-cooked meal before eating out every day for two weeks,” he explained.

When he returned from his trip, his wife was still angry and told him his harsh words were “over the top.” 

“I asked what she had been doing those two weeks, and she insisted that she was ‘super busy’ (see: Instagram and Netflix). I gave her an ultimatum: that she had one month … to get her s–t together and be a proper homemaker. I told her that if she couldn’t, I was going to divorce her,” the man shared. 

Since his ultimatum, his wife has been “sulking,” and her mom has “blamed” him for “Steph’s lack of direction in life.”

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In the comments section, Reddit users sided with the frustrated husband.

“Why can’t she go back to work? Why does she have to stay home? I think it’s fair to say if you’re not going to do the duties of a stay-at-home wife then you need to work,” one person wrote. 

“Do you really think she is employable? I don’t know any companies that will let you play on your phone and watch Netflix,” another quipped.

“If you have no children and she is a SAHW, taking care of the household (including shopping and cooking) is her job. I don’t blame you at all for not wanting to continue this way,” someone else commented.