After A Month Away, Wife Lands And Takes A Two-Hour Trip To Get Ice Cream Instead Of Immediately Coming Home, Infuriating Her Husband

We have a new favorite descriptor: "power sulking"

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• December 30, 2022

Petty behaviors and actions are fun in theory. When you are on the receiving end of those actions, suddenly, they are not as funny anymore.

There is no room for pettiness in a committed romantic relationship. It's counterproductive to react this way in the middle of a misunderstanding.

When your significant other falls short on a promise or fails to follow through with your plans, you must communicate your disappointment. Passive-aggressive revenge is not the way to go if you want to convey your feelings.

Huffing and puffing will only irritate both of you and reconciliations are not easy when you're plagued with that emotion. This is an idealistic approach and sometimes, as immature as it sounds, our emotions really do just get the better of us.

Like this couple who haven't seen each other in a month. OP was with her sister for a while to help her with her newborn.

Her husband promised to pick her up at the airport so they can spend time together on their way home. So, OP was surprised to see her brother-in-law waiting for her instead of her husband.

Her BIL said that something came up for her husband which is why he's picking her up instead. OP was irritated and asked her BIL to take her to an ice cream shop.

He was hesitant but OP convinced him after she threatened to get an Uber instead. Her BIL was glued to his phone the whole time she was eating ice cream and he was obviously trying to rush her.

Her husband was annoyed when OP finally got home

He asked her why she didn't go straight to their house from the airport

He told her that he cleared his schedule for the evening thinking that they will spend time together. OP said she assumed that he was busy since he didn't pick her up but he is still mad that she went to get ice cream instead of coming home.

Ice cream became priority no.1 after her husband didn't show up and it was better than feeling sorry for herself at home while waiting for him

OP's BIL didn't mention that her husband cleared his evening schedule to spend time with her

Two hours is a lot of time to spend eating ice cream. Why couldn't she pick one up from the store?

OP said it took forever to find an ice cream parlor because of terrible traffic

Maybe OP had a particular ice cream parlor in mind?

Here's OP's explanation why it took two hours to find an ice cream shop:

It could be that OP got upset because she felt blindsided that instead of her husband, it was her BIL who picked her up

There are a lot of assumptions going on in their marriage and not a lot of communication

Did he move the meeting at an earlier time to clear his evening to spend more time with OP? I guess we'll never know for sure.

OP didn't bother replying to this one, so I guess we'll never know

Initially people were on OP's side but after they saw her comments, they think she is the a**hole who is probably hiding something

"Power sulking" is an apt description!

Someone went against the grain and said everyone in this situation sucked because all of them failed to communicate like adults during the whole ordeal

It takes a few seconds to inform each other about changes in plans but that is too much work for this husband and wife

The drama could have been avoided if any one of them bothered to tell each other what was happening

People are not exaggerating when they say that communication can make or break a relationship. Seriously, either one of them could have called the other to share the changes in their plan but they failed to do that, so now they are just waiting on who's going to apologize first.

Chelsi