A wife has sparked conversation over a seemingly relatable issue of household chores in a marriage after getting purposeful revenge on her husband.

The woman explained in a popular post that laundry and where the laundry basket is placed has caused issues in her relationship. The anonymous wife shared her thoughts to the subreddit "Am I the A**hole" where users head to find opinions on their tricky situations.

Her husband, she wrote, has a "mindless habit of tanking the laundry basket and putting it on our bed while he's using it." She added that although she thinks it's "gross," she rarely says anything about it.

"I do say something when he puts the basket directly on my pillows, though. The basket normally lives in our laundry room which is by an outside door and a litter box. I've asked him, more than once, to please be mindful of where he's putting the laundry basket because I'd really rather not have dirt, litter, cat fecal matter, and who knows what ON MY PILLOW," wrote the wife.

The husband however failed to change his ways when it comes to the laundry basket, and continued to place it on her pillow. " Instead of reminding him for the umpteenth time, I took the basket and put it on his pillow and left the room. A little while later, he found me and asked why I put the basket on his pillow and told me how gross that was," she wrote.

However, her husband argued that due to his placing being an accident and not malicious, it wasn't the same. "I reminded him that after the first time it happened, it's no longer an accident, it's disrespectful. He told me I was being spiteful and passive-aggressive and I should have come to him," added the wife, before asking Reddit users to weigh on who was in the right.

Arguments over laundry are extremely common when it comes to couples who live together. Showerstoyou.co.uk surveyed 2,459 couples in 2020 and found that doing the dishes was the chore most likely to cause rifts. Laundry came in at fifth, with 29 percent of couples saying they argued over the chore.

Of the respondents no longer in relationships, 15 percent cited arguments over household chores as a large factor in the breakup of their relationship.

Overwhelmingly, users favored the wife and pinpointed the high amount of times she's warned her husband about the basket as a main indicator of who is in the right. "I'm a guy that does a lot of 'mindless things' like the poster described, but I'm generally remorseful about it or immediately fix it. I for sure don't have the audacity to get mad at my partner for basically doing the same thing after I just did it for the 54857th time," noted one user.

"I also like to think I don't do things that I find immediately gross if done for me. If i did, I would just feel like a huge a**hole."

Another added: "With how frequently laundry can be done, once is a mistake, twice is on purpose."

"He's 'forgetting' on purpose because putting something gross and dirty on your pillow 1) doesn't bother him and 2) he doesn't care that it bothers you," argued one Reddit user.

"When my husband and I moved in together, he kept leaving cabinet doors open. I asked him to stop...so he stopped. Turns out that it's easy to make small accommodations for people when you care about their happiness."

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