A young man says he and his wife recently bought a three-bed flat and decided together that one of these rooms could be used as an office area for them both to use. About a week ago his wife had to go away with work for a few days and he chose to 'use that time to fix the room to my liking'.
The 27-year-old husband is an avid gamer, and so, keen to reflect this interest, decided to put up a shelf filled with figures he's collected of his favourite gaming characters, alongside some other stuff. He made sure to leave precisely half of the room space for his wife to decorate however she wishes, but she wasn't exactly impressed.
Taking to Reddit, the man, who goes by the username u/Ok_Information_8290, wrote: "When my wife came back, she was furious about the fact that I didn't tell her about me renovating the room and the fact that it destroyed the formal office kind of theme.
"She had already a picture of how the room would look like and I guess I destroyed it for her. I told her I could buy a greenscreen so that when she had online meetings, the background wouldn't be of my desk. But that didn't work out for her as 'it would take up too much space'."
Reaching out for some words of wisdom, he continued: "I told her I wouldn't change the way my desk looked and that if she didn't like it, she has to have other solutions for it.
"It has become a pretty big argument between us and when I told my parents about it, they were on her side, as well as saying I should throw away my stuff and 'start being more mature'. That kind of hit me since that stuff cost way too much to be just thrown away."
Unfortunately, he didn't get much sympathy from his fellow Reddit users, many of whom felt he should have discussed his plans with his wife beforehand.
One person commented: "You waited until she was out of town for a reason. That was calculated, cold, and selfish. If you hadn't done that and were posting about your disagreement with your wife over displaying your things, we would have your back.
"But because you took unilateral action on a shared space and waited until you could do it slyly behind your wife's back, you lost the crowd."
Another remarked: "So you got to do what you want, and if she doesn’t like it, 'she has to have other solutions for it'?
"Wow. Not only did you disregard that this was to be a shared space, but you are also now basically saying 'I get my way and if you don’t like it you need to find another way to deal with it'. Not a recipe for a successful marriage, my dude. I wish her luck."
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