The original post: /r/amitheasshole by /u/Random_GF_ on 2025-02-21 17:56:38.

I just need some outside opinions. My boyfriend (let’s call him Dan) has a sore throat so he stayed home from work yesterday. I have been working from 9am to 7pm Monday through Thursday(yesterday) this week. Today was my first day off.

Dan’s job and my job are completely different. He completed college and scored a cushy office job that pays $28 and he works from 6am-3pm Tuesday through Saturday usually. To give him some credit, he works in logistics and it looks complicated when he’s working from home. But he works out of a cubicle and stays in one spot all day. I am still trying to complete college so I have a job that is way more hands on. I work with children. Specifically I work at a playground for children. So, I am constantly moving to put toys back where they go, cleaning pee and poop accidents out of the playground, prepping enormous amounts of food for children’s parties, and I even have to wear a hot ass mascot suit to dance with kids multiple times a day. It’s a lot and it’s only for $11 an hour.

Okay, onto the actual issue. There is one tv and I wanted to watch movies today by myself because (shocker) I am also sick. I rarely get to use the tv because as soon as Dan gets home he’s playing on his PS5. I don’t really care that he plays it. But why does it have to be all day, everyday (no joke he plays from 9am-6pm on his off days and 4pm-8pm on his working days)? Again, that is the only tv that I can stream movies on so it’s either watch him play his game of go downstairs and watch one of the Spanish soap operas that play on cable. I don’t speak/understand much Spanish. Okay so today was my day to use the tv because he is supposed to be working from 6-3 and he already got to stay home and play all day yesterday.

Unfortunately when I woke up at 7am this morning he was very much not at work. I asked him why he wasn’t working and he said “oh I was really just not feeling good at all so I turned around and came home.” I told him then if he’s really feeling that terrible then he should resting and not drinking energy drinks and playing his game for hours on end. And that this was my one day off this week so I wanted to watch movies and take a sick day of my own. (I am not allowed to take any sick days at work unless I have a contagious disease or am on the verge of losing consciousness.) I have been throwing up at work all week but I was just told to drink some water and “shake it off” by my boss. So this off day is my sick day. Dan called me selfish for wanting a day by myself and we got into a huge argument about how it’s his house so he can do what he wants in it. (We rent and I pay half so it’s just as much my house as it is his) He’s calling me a bitch and an asshole for “demanding” that I use the tv today when he’s feeling sick. I just wanted to be able to use TV on my day off. So am I an asshole for being pissed that he had to take two sick days in a row for a sore throat?