MY HUSBAND CREATED A NEW SCHEDULE FOR ME TO 'BECOME A BETTER WIFE' — I TAUGHT HIM A GOOD LESSON IN RESPONSE So, Jake and I had a pretty solid marriage for the first few years—until he started hanging out with this guy from work, Steve. Steve was this loudmouth from Jake's work, with no girlfriend, no wife, but he somehow knew everything about marriage. And Jake? He started listening. Suddenly, he's coming home with all these "tips" Steve gave him. Then one day, Jake walks in with this stack of papers, grinning like he just cracked the code to life. He hands it to me, I look down and see the title: "Lisa's Weekly Routine for Becoming a Better Wife." My jaw just about hit the floor. Jake had actually gone ahead and written down a whole schedule for me, based on Steve’s "brilliant" ideas. The list was INSANE. I'm supposed to wake up at 5 AM every day, make Jake breakfast, then head to the gym to "stay in shape." After that, I'm supposed to clean the house, do laundry, cook dinner, and make snacks for him and his friends when they come over. I was beyond mad, but I didn't let it show. Instead, I smiled and said, "Sure, babe, I'll get right on it." Little did he know, I was already plotting my payback. The next day, when Jake came home from work, there was a new ⬇️

I’ve always taken pleasure in being the level-headed one in our marriage. Jake, bless his heart, could get caught up in things quickly, whether it was a new pastime or a random YouTube video that claimed to improve his life in three simple steps.

But we were good until Jake met Steve. Steve was the sort of man who felt being noisily opinionated made him right, and he spoke right over you when you tried to correct him.

He was also a constantly single person (who would have guessed?) who generously gave relationship advise to all of his married coworkers, including Jake. Jake should have known better, but my beautiful hubby was completely taken by Steve’s confidence.

I didn’t think much of it until Jake made some offensive remarks.

“Steve says relationships work best when the wife takes charge of the household,” he’d tell me. Finally, “Steve thinks it’s important for women to look good for their husbands, no matter how long they’ve been married.”

I’d roll my eyes and respond with some caustic comment, but it was getting on my nerves. Jake was changing. He’d raise an eyebrow if I bought takeout instead of cooking, and sigh if I let the laundry pile up because, God forbid, I had my own full-time work.

Then it occurred. One night, he returned home with The List.

He sat me down at the kitchen table, unfolded a piece of paper, and passed it to me.

“I’ve been thinking,” he began, his tone condescending, unlike anything I’d heard from him before. “You’re an excellent wife, Lisa. But there is opportunity for improvement.”

My eyebrows rose. “Oh really?”

He nodded, unaware of the hazardous zone he was approaching. “Yeah. Steve made me see that our marriage could be even better if you, you know, stepped up a little.”

I stared at the paper in front of me. It was a schedule… and he’d written “Lisa’s Weekly Routine for Becoming a Better Wife” at the top in bold.

This person had literally sat down and planned out my whole week based on what Steve, a single man with little marital experience, believed I should do to “improve” myself as a wife.