A woman who was annoyed by her husband’s comment that she does nothing around the house decided to prove her point demonstrably.
TikToker @lindsaydonnelly2 decided to cook up some revenge after her husband said that she didn’t do anything around the house.
So she decided to stop doing any housework for a couple of days and posted the results online.
In the viral video, she wrote: “My husband made a comment that I do nothing around the house.”
“So for two days, I really did nothing around the house.”
Lindsay then pans the camera around her house where her kitchen floor and countertop were full of her children’s belongings with dirty bottles and cutlery in the sink.
She then moved into the dining room where the table was crowded with different things, while in the lounge there was a huge basket of dirty laundry, and there was stuff all over the place in the bathroom.
“Then I left town for a girls trip… #marriagehumor,” Lindsay added in the caption while ‘Karma’ by Taylor Swift played in the clip.
@lindsaydonnelly2 Then I left town for a girls trip… #marriagehumor ♬ Karma (feat. Ice Spice) – Taylor Swift
However, that video might have gone ever so slightly more viral than she was expecting as millions of people have since watched the video and left comments.
One person said: “This is why I stay single. I refuse to parent an adult.”
“Divorce him,” another person wrote. “One less person to clean up after”
Someone else added: “I really would do nothing ever again for that man. He has no respect for you, he’s treating you like unpaid help. You deserve better.”
“There is nothing humorous about him saying that. That’s devaluing you and invalidation,” a fourth person commented.
In a follow-up video, Lindsay sat down with her husband who she says has “since apologised” to her for his comments and then informed him of the viral TikTok, to which he apologised to viewers too.
@lindsaydonnelly2 Replying to @kris ♬ original sound – Lindsay D
Since posting the video, Donnelly has released other videos showing that she and her husband could see the funny side of their viral fame.
She posted a video joking that she ‘might accidentally roast you in a TikTok video and let 7 million people join in on the fun’, and since that was posted, the viewer count on the original video has shot to almost 13 million.
The TikToker then added yet another video to the mix where she said she ‘roasted my almost perfect husband’, saying he ‘cleans daily more than I do’.
People responding to the viral video haven’t always seen the funny side, however, with quite a lot of the comments telling her that she ought to divorce her husband.
Given that her subsequent videos have her describing her other half as an ‘almost perfect husband’, a separation probably isn’t on the cards for this couple despite the TikTok comment section’s best efforts.
Others who weren’t actively trying to tell her to get a divorce also threw their two cents into the conversation over her decision to completely stop doing any housework.
One person said: “I wanna do this but it would drive ME crazy,” and someone else admitted that they’d tried it themselves but forgot they were supposed to be leaving a mess and ‘absent mindedly’ threw out their rubbish a few hours later.
And some said they’d taken this approach for six months and suggested that she should have taken all of the discarded clothes so she could ‘dump it all on his side of the bedroom’.
Another added that they’d been through the same thing, only to get sick and have their partner admit that the housework was much harder than they thought after they started to do it.
